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Psychological Climate, Empowerment, Leadership Style, and Customer-Oriented Selling: An Analysis of the Sales ManagerSalesperson DyadWestern Kentucky University
University of Memphis This study examined antecedents and performancerelated consequences of customer-oriented selling. The antecedents include sales managers' leadership styles, psychological empowerment, and the psychological climates of organizations. Data were gathered on two separate performance outcome measures. Responses from 106 sales managers and 313 sales representatives were analyzed. The results indicate that transformational leadership, empowerment, and specific components of the psychological climate are important predictors of customeroriented selling.
Key Words: sales management customer-oriented selling empowerment leadership style psychological climate
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 34, No. 3,
419-438 (2006) |
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