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Frontline health professionals’ perceptions of their adaptive competences in service recovery
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posted on 2020-01-01, 00:00 authored by Lisa McQuilken, Nichola RobertsonNichola Robertson, G Abbas, Michael PolonskyMichael PolonskyThere is extensive research on service recovery from the customer’s perspective, but not the service professional’s viewpoint. This is surprising, as service professionals are responsible for service recovery that is co-created with the customer in the joint sphere. Thus, this study empirically tested a framework of the antecedents of frontline health professionals’ (FHPs) perceptions of their recovery performance, including cultural and emotional competences that help them to adapt to failures and interact fairly with customers. This framework includes the organisational recovery system that sets the parameters FHPs operate within; the focus of previous research. The context is hospitals in Qatar, which has a sophisticated healthcare system. The hypotheses were generated from a literature review and 10 depth interviews with FHPs, followed by empirical testing with a sample of 343 FHPs. The results suggest that FHPs’ cultural and emotional competences and recovery self-efficacy improve their self-perceived interpersonal fairness and recovery performance. Various human resource management strategies are proposed based on these findings.
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Journal of strategic marketingVolume
28Issue
1Pagination
70 - 94Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0965-254XeISSN
1466-4488Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2018, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupUsage metrics
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