Service Employees

• Who are they?

  • “boundary spanners”

• What are these jobs like?

  • emotional labor( delivering smiles, making eye contact, showing sincere interest, and engaging in friendly conversations with customers who are essentially strangers)
  • many sources of potential conflict
    • person/role
    • organization/client
    • interclient
    • quality/productivity

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