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This special issue introduces new perspectives on emotional labor in the service context. That is, while service work has been a focus of much of the emotional labor research world, explication of the context in which that service work occurs...
This article seeks to broaden emotional labor research through the lens of a Human Experience (HX) perspective, in contrast to either an Employee (EX) or a Customer (CX) perspective. In services, an HX perspective explicitly acknowledges that both...
Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this article integrates service literature on value cocreation with the psychological literature on emotional labor. Highlighting the co-production of services by both customers and employees, this research...
Prior research on emotional labor has primarily been conducted at the individual level. In this paper, we examine a model of unit employee emotional labor and its relationships with unit LMX and LMX differentiation as well as with unit employee...
In this study we examine the relationships of service organization identification and customer orientation as antecedents of emotion work strategies and fatigue. We hypothesize that identification and customer orientation (a) positively predict...