DOI
10.1086/430861
Abstract
Few studies have examined the relationship between customer injustice and employees’ retaliatory counterproductive behaviors toward customers, and those that have done so were conducted in a Western setting. We extend these studies by examining the relationship in a Singaporean context where retaliatory behaviors by employees might be culturally constrained. While the previously-established positive relationship between customer injustice and counterproductive behaviors was not replicated using peer-reported data from employees across two hotels in Singapore, we found that individuals’ self-efficacy and perceived social support moderated it. Specifically, the injustice-to-counterproductive behaviors relationship was positive for individuals with high self-efficacy, and for those who perceived high levels of supervisor social support. The findings offer insights into when Singaporean employees and, potentially, employees from other Confucian Asian societies will retaliate against customer injustice, and provide practical implications of how managers can help employees cope with customer injustice.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2005
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2005 The University of Chicago Press. This article first appeared in The Journal of Business 78, no. 4 (July 2005): 1307-336. doi:10.1086/430861.
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Recommended Citation
Arnold, Tom, Alexander W. Butler, Timothy Falcon Crack, and Yan Zhang. "The Information Content of Short Interest: A Natural Experiment." The Journal of Business 78, no. 4 (July 2005): 1307-336. doi:10.1086/430861.