Is it better for salespeople to have the highest customer orientation or a strong fit with their group's customer orientation? Findings from automobile dealerships

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• 作者：Aaron D. Arndt ; ^{aarndt@odu.edu} ; Kiran Karande¹ ; ^{kkarande@odu.edu}
• 关键词：Customer orientation ; Person-group fit ; Customer orientation fit
• 刊名：Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：61_09696989
• 类别：bus
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 卷：19
• 期：3
• 页码：353-359
• 文件大小：184 K

摘要

The purpose of this study is to examine how retail salesperson-group fit on customer orientation impacts sales performance. Customer orientation fit will be compared against the amount of customer orientation to answer the question of whether it is better to have higher customer orientation or consistent customer orientation. This study shows that fit with the group's customer orientation is more important than having a high customer orientation; individuals who deviate from the group's customer orientation have lower performance than individuals who fit their group's customer orientation. Although previous research finds that group-level performance is stronger in groups that have consistently high customer orientation, we find that individual sales performance depends on fit with other group members, regardless of the orientation of the group.