• DocumentCode
    2218165
  • Title

    The Discussion of the Effect of Psychological Empowerment of Front-Line Salespeople on Sales Performance

  • Author

    Xu, Zhengliang ; Pei, Yilei ; Su, Yong

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Manage., Jilin Univ., Changchun
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    19-21 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    498
  • Lastpage
    501
  • Abstract
    Empowerment is an effective method of improving organization effectiveness. Empowerment can raise the service level of employees effectively, mobilize the work enthusiasm of employees and motivate employees to provide customers with good service quality and improve service quality and customer satisfaction. Many enterprises have found they have to empower front-line employees, especially front-line salespeople, in order to understand customer needs quickly, response to customer demand and problems rapidly, and provide service for customers timely, in the process of interaction with customers. And the success of empowerment inside the enterprises depends on the perception of front-line salespeoplepsilas empowerment, namely psychological empowerment of front-line salespeople. Based on the research literature, this paper proposes the conceptual model of the relationship between psychological empowerment of front-line salespeople and sales performance, discusses the mechanism of the effect of psychological empowerment of front-line salespeople on sales performance, and gives some suggestions from the perspective of human resource management practice.
  • Keywords
    customer satisfaction; customer services; human resource management; industrial psychology; organisational aspects; sales management; customer demands; customer satisfaction; customer service quality; employee service level; front-line salespeople; human resource management; motivation; organization effectiveness; psychological empowerment; sales performance; Companies; Conference management; Customer satisfaction; Engineering management; Industrial engineering; Information management; Innovation management; Marketing and sales; Psychology; Quality management; front-line salespeople; psychological empowerment; sales performance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2008. ICIII '08. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Taipei
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3435-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIII.2008.143
  • Filename
    4737694