The impact of adverse life events on salesperson relationships with customers
| Autor: | Geoffrey T. Stewart, Rajesh Srivastava, Deva Rangarajan, Michael C. Peasley, Bert Paesbrugghe |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Lille économie management - UMR 9221 (LEM), Université d'Artois (UA)-Université catholique de Lille (UCL)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Marketing
Self-efficacy media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Enterprise value Applied psychology Burnout [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance Structural equation modeling [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences 0502 economics and business Depersonalization medicine Survey data collection 050211 marketing Business Business and International Management medicine.symptom Grit 050203 business & management Seriousness media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Emerald, 2020, ⟨10.1108/JBIM-05-2019-0274⟩ Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 2020, ⟨10.1108/JBIM-05-2019-0274⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0885-8624 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/JBIM-05-2019-0274⟩ |
| Popis: | Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of stress as a result of adverse life events on a salesperson’s ability to effectively manage customer relationships. The framework identifies burnout as a key mediating variable and salesperson grit as a coping mechanism. Design/methodology/approach Survey data is gathered from 364 B2B salespeople and investigated using structural equation modeling in Mplus 8.2. Findings The findings reveal adverse life events and their corresponding stress diminish a salesperson’s ability to manage customer relationships effectively through the mediators of reduced personal accomplishment and depersonalization. Thus, negative events of a personal nature can have a significant impact on salesperson outcomes and should be taken with the same level of seriousness as job-related stress. Furthermore, results show that salesperson grit provides mixed results as a coping mechanism. Practical implications The findings indicate that practitioners should be mindful of the negative impact adverse life events can have on work-related outcomes. Organizations and sales managers must be intentional in managing relationships with their salespeople and strategic in the structure they use to manage customer relationships. Recommendations include the use of regular one-on-one meetings to open up a dialogue about work or personal issues the salesperson is experiencing and assigning multiple resources or staff to service valuable customers, thereby not relying on solitary salespeople. Originality/value Employee well-being contributes to firm value; yet, this is the first study in sales to explore the impact of adverse life events on salesperson outcomes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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