While antecedents If citizenship behaviors have been investigated extensively
in organizational behavior, the citizenship behaviors of contact employees have
received only limited consideration.
A field investigation with some hotels was conducted to understand the
antecedents and consequences of customer-contact employee service-oriented
citizenship performance. Antecedent measures gathered from customer-contact
employees included job satisfaction, distributive fairness, procedural fairness,
and participative leadership. Service quality were also included in the study as
potential consequences of service-oriented citizenship performance.
The results of the data analyses revealed the important role of job
satisfaction in partially mediating the relationships between the fairness
antecedents, participative leaderships and the three dimensions of
service-oriented citizenship performance. Job satisfaction was positive predictor
of each type of citizenship behavior.
Distributive fairness and participative leadership had indirect effects of
service-oriented citizenship performance through the job satisfaction dimension.
In addition, they had direct effects to some citizenship behaviors. However,
procedural fairness had negative relationship with organizational citizenship
behaviors.
Finally, the service-oriented citizenship behaviors were significantly related
to the measure of service quality.
The study findings contribute to the understanding of the antecedents and
consequences of customer-contact employee service-oriented behaviors.