A Role Stress Model of the Performance and Satisfaction of Industrial Salespersons
基于196名工业销售代表数据，用路径分析检验了角色冲突、角色模糊与工作绩效、满意度的关系模型，对销售经理和研究者有参考价值。
This research proposes an integrative model of the antecedents and consequences of salesforce role stress, with particular emphasis on two outcomes important to sales reps and firms alike: salesforce performance and satisfaction. Drawing on data from 196 sales representatives for five major industrial firms, the linkages in the proposed model are tested with path analysis procedures. The model is sufficiently comprehensive that it provides a basis to replicate and extend, in one study, much of the key research on the sales representative's role environment, especially as it relates to role conflict, role ambiguity, and their relationships with job performance and satisfaction. Implications of this research for sales managers and researchers in the sales area are given.