What is it about?
This research demonstrates that inspiring leadership enhances employee confidence and improves service quality, thereby fostering stronger customer relationships. Additionally, a positive team environment supports improved employee performance and customer retention over time.
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Why is it important?
This study shows that happy, confident, and well-supported employees provide better customer service, which helps retain customers. Managers who act as transformational leaders—encouraging, supporting, and motivating staff—can improve both employee performance and the overall service environment. Training managers, fostering a positive work climate, and designing jobs that build skills and confidence all help employees serve customers better and build stronger long-term relationships.
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This page is a summary of: Transforming service employees and climate: A multilevel, multisource examination of transformational leadership in building long-term service relationships., Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.4.1006.
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