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
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