Exploring the relationships between compassion at work, the evaluative perspective of positive work-related identity, service employee creativity, and job performance

Journal of Services Marketing

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 103-114

  Hur, Won Moo ^a   Moon, Taewon ^b   Rhee, Seung Yoon ^b  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Compassion at work; Evaluative perspective of positive work related identity; Job performance; Service employee creativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958043432     PISSN: 08876045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JSM-05-2014-0180     Document Type: Article

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