{"title":"Effect of Employee Empathy on Service Loyalty Through the Development of Trust in and Satisfaction With Service Employee During Service Interactions","authors":"Waseem Bahadur","doi":"10.4018/ijcrmm.2020010103","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thisstudyexaminestheindirecteffectofemployeeempathyonserviceloyaltythroughtheintervening effect of trust in and satisfaction with service employees during service interactions. Data was obtainedthroughaself-administeredquestionnairefromuniversitystudents.410useableresponses wereusedtoperformdataanalysis.Confirmatoryfactoranalysis,structuralequationmodeling,and bootstrappingforindirecteffectswereconductedtotestthehypotheses.Theresultsshowasignificant impactofemployeeempathyontrustinserviceemployeeandsatisfactionwithserviceemployee duringcustomer-employeeinteractions.Also,satisfactionwithaserviceemployeeshowedasignificant effectonserviceloyaltyduringserviceinteractions.Thestudyenhancestheunderstandingofempathy withinbankingservicesduringinteractionsbetweenserviceemployeeandcustomer.Italsoprovides insightsforservicemanagersandfrontlineserviceemployeesonhowempathydevelopscustomer’s trustandsatisfactionwithaserviceemployee. KEyWoRDS Employee Empathy, Satisfaction With Service Employee, Service Loyalty, Trust in Service Employee","PeriodicalId":37127,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management","volume":"69 1","pages":"31-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijcrmm.2020010103","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Decision Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Thisstudyexaminestheindirecteffectofemployeeempathyonserviceloyaltythroughtheintervening effect of trust in and satisfaction with service employees during service interactions. Data was obtainedthroughaself-administeredquestionnairefromuniversitystudents.410useableresponses wereusedtoperformdataanalysis.Confirmatoryfactoranalysis,structuralequationmodeling,and bootstrappingforindirecteffectswereconductedtotestthehypotheses.Theresultsshowasignificant impactofemployeeempathyontrustinserviceemployeeandsatisfactionwithserviceemployee duringcustomer-employeeinteractions.Also,satisfactionwithaserviceemployeeshowedasignificant effectonserviceloyaltyduringserviceinteractions.Thestudyenhancestheunderstandingofempathy withinbankingservicesduringinteractionsbetweenserviceemployeeandcustomer.Italsoprovides insightsforservicemanagersandfrontlineserviceemployeesonhowempathydevelopscustomer’s trustandsatisfactionwithaserviceemployee. KEyWoRDS Employee Empathy, Satisfaction With Service Employee, Service Loyalty, Trust in Service Employee