Service-oriented high-performance work systems and service role performance: Applying an integrated extended self and psychological ownership framework

TY - JOUR

T1 - Service-oriented high-performance work systems and service role performance

T2 - Applying an integrated extended self and psychological ownership framework

AU - Jo, Hyunyoung

AU - Aryee, Samuel

AU - Hsiung, Hsin Hua

AU - Guest, David

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/7/13

Y1 - 2021/7/13

N2 - How do organizations build an internal capability or processes to implement a service excellence strategy and thereby create sustained competitive advantage? Drawing on an integrated extended self and psychology of ownership framework as well as Bowen and Ostroff’s human resource (HR) system strength perspective, this study examines processes linking perceived service-oriented high-performance work systems (HPWS) and overall service role performance. Multi-wave data obtained from 530 employees and 53 supervisors in the hospitality industry were used to test our hypotheses. Multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) results revealed that higher levels of supervisor customer orientation strengthened the perceived service-oriented HPWS-employee customer orientation relationship leading to job-based psychological ownership. In turn, job-based psychological ownership related to overall service role performance and together with employee customer orientation, sequentially mediated the influence of perceived service-oriented HPWS on overall service role performance. We interpret our findings as providing initial evidence of an alternative motivational pathway through which an HR system influences performance in a frontline service role.

AB - How do organizations build an internal capability or processes to implement a service excellence strategy and thereby create sustained competitive advantage? Drawing on an integrated extended self and psychology of ownership framework as well as Bowen and Ostroff’s human resource (HR) system strength perspective, this study examines processes linking perceived service-oriented high-performance work systems (HPWS) and overall service role performance. Multi-wave data obtained from 530 employees and 53 supervisors in the hospitality industry were used to test our hypotheses. Multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) results revealed that higher levels of supervisor customer orientation strengthened the perceived service-oriented HPWS-employee customer orientation relationship leading to job-based psychological ownership. In turn, job-based psychological ownership related to overall service role performance and together with employee customer orientation, sequentially mediated the influence of perceived service-oriented HPWS on overall service role performance. We interpret our findings as providing initial evidence of an alternative motivational pathway through which an HR system influences performance in a frontline service role.

KW - customer orientation

KW - job-based psychological ownership

KW - overall service role performance

KW - perceived service-oriented high-performance work systems

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111912308&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/00187267211035656

DO - 10.1177/00187267211035656

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85111912308

SN - 0018-7267

JO - HUMAN RELATIONS

JF - HUMAN RELATIONS

ER -