Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Conference Track

Service Marketing/ Non-Profit Marketing/ Ethics

Publication Date

2013

Abstract

Services marketing and organizational behavior researchers have studied factors that have a positive influence on employees’ job performance. They viewed that the manager’s role in dealing with his/her subordinates is critical in producing the desired outcomes such as employee job performance. This study based on organizational justice and Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory, presents and tests a model, in which relationships among justice, LMX, trust, and job performance are examined. More specifically, the study examines the impact of organizational justice on the quality of LMX and the effect of LMX on employees’ attitudinal and behavioral aspects (trust and job performance). The study employs four dimensions of justice, two bases of trust and two types of job performance. By using a dimensional approach, the study attempts to investigate and comprehend dynamic and complex relationships among the variables. Using the data collected from restaurant employees in South Korea, the study finds that all dimensions of justice have a positive influence on the quality of LMX. LMX plays a significant role in affecting two bases of trust (cognitive trust and affective trust) and two dimensions of job performance (task performance and helping behavior). The study also found that not cognitive trust but affective trust influences task performance. The finding that distributive justice explains the largest portion of the variance in the quality of LMX suggests that distributive justice plays the most important role in building and maintaining the quality of manager-employee relationship. Employees care about fair distribution of the resources and outcomes that reflect the efforts they put into the work. The importance of quality of leader-member exchange is highlighted in this study. The high-quality relationship developed through the organization’s institutionalization of justice helps employees have trust in the leaders. It seems that justice is a mechanism through which managers and employees develop a highquality relationship. The study also found that affective trust has a significant positive effect on task performance, suggesting instilling and nurturing trust among employees is critical for improving their job performance.

About the Authors

Yong-Ki Lee is a professor of marketing at Sejong University, Seoul, Korea. His research interest includes service orientation, relationship marketing, and environmental marketing. His work has been published in Journal of Business Research, Journal of Services Marketing, The Service Industries Journal, Behaviour & Information Technology, Journal of Global Scholar of Marketing Science, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, and Annals of Tourism Research.

Sally Kim is an associate professor of Marketing at Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA. She received her Ph.D. from the George Washington University. Her research interest includes consumer penalty, relationship marketing, and international marketing. Her research has been published in the Journal of Service Research, Business Horizons, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, International Journal of Hospitality Management, and Services Marketing Quarterly.

Mun-Hyun Son is an assistant professor of Seoul Occupational Training College, Seoul, Korea. His research interest includes hotel marketing and management and relationship marketing. His work has been published in International Journal of Hospitality Management, Korean Journal of Hotel Administration, and Korean Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research.

Min-Seong Kim graduated from University of Minnesota, Crookston, USA and Graduate School, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea. His research interest includes service marketing, relationship marketing, and environmental marketing. His work has been published in African Journal of Business Management, Korea Management Review, Journal of Marketing Studies, Journal of Commodity Science and Technology, Korean Journal of Hotel Administration, and The Academy of Customer Satisfaction Management

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