Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2012
Abstract
We introduce the concept of emotional labor variability, which captures individual differences in surface acting and deep acting fluctuations over time. In a multilevel study of 78 customer service employees who provided 522 matched daily surveys over a two-week period, employees who were more variable in their use of surface acting reported lower levels of job satisfaction and higher levels of work withdrawal. Selfmonitoring was positively associated with both the level and variability of surface acting, and the effects of surface acting variability on job satisfaction and work withdrawal were weaker when self-monitoring was high. The results for deep acting were inconsistent. Overall, our results demonstrate how the concepts of surface acting variability and deep acting variability can extend theory and research on emotional labor as well as on self-monitoring.
Discipline
Business Administration, Management, and Operations
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
Academy of Management Journal
Volume
55
Issue
4
First Page
905
Last Page
926
ISSN
0001-4273
Identifier
10.5465/amj.2010.1050
Publisher
Academy of Management
Citation
Scott, B. A.; BARNES, C. M.; and WAGNER, David T..
Chameleonic or consistent? A multilevel investigation of emotional labor variability and self-monitoring. (2012). Academy of Management Journal. 55, (4), 905-926.
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