Examining firefighter and police officers’ trust and service quality: What resources matter?
Carol Flinchbaugh,
Jennifer Miles,
Bahareh Javadizadeh
et al.
Abstract:We present and test a model examining the role of organizational and psychological resources that enable employees’ high-quality service provision in public safety jobs. Through a two-study design conceptualized in the principle of reciprocity of social exchange theory, we recruited 120 firefighters and 119 police officers and found that service quality was positively associated with their trust in the administration, training, and staffing sufficiency. We also found that police officers’ prosocial motivation,… Show more
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