Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2010
Publication Title
Human Performance
Volume
23
Issue
2
First Page
101
Last Page
115
Abstract
Organizational display rules (e.g., “service with a smile”) have had mixed relationships with employee emotional labor—either in the form of “bad faith” surface acting (suppressing or faking expressions) or “good faith” deep acting (modifying inner feelings). We draw on the motivational perspective of emotional labor to argue that individual differences in customer orientation will directly and indirectly relate to these acting strategies in response to display rules.With a survey of more than 500 working adults in customer contact positions, and controlling for affective disposition, we find that customer orientation directly increases “good faith” acting while it moderates the relationship of display rules with “bad faith” acting.
Recommended Citation
Allen, Joseph A.; Pugh, S. Douglas; Grandey, Alicia A.; and Groth, Markus, "Following Display Rules in Good or Bad Faith?: Customer Orientation as a Moderator of the Display Rule-Emotional Labor Relationship" (2010). Psychology Faculty Publications. 90.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/psychfacpub/90
Comments
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published inAllen, J. A., Douglas, P. S., Grandey, A. A., & Groth, M. (2010). Following display rules in good or bad faith?: Customer orientation as a moderator of the display rule-emotional labor relationship. Human Performance, 23, 2, 101-115. © 2010 Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08959281003621695.