Prof. Tali Seger-Guttmann
Teaching
- Diagnostic Methods &Tools in Recruiting Employees
- Mindfulness in organizational consulting work
- Customer-service employee emotional encounter- seminar
- Organizational Consulting supervision
Research
My research interests lies in the area of: emotional labor, and customer experience. In the area of social sustainability I focused on disadvantaged customers/service employees groups and mindfulness in the organizational/service domain
Publications
Mannheim, B., & Seger, T. (1993). Mothers’ occupational characteristics: family position and sex-role orientation as related to adolescents’ work-values, Youth & Society, 24, 276-298. doi: 10.1177/0044118X93024003002
Seger, T., Hazzan, O., & Bar-Nahor, R. (2007). How does readiness for agile development relate to team climate and individual personality attributes? Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4536/2007Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 257-263
Hazzan, O., Seger, T., & Luria, G. (2010). How did the creators of the Agile Manifesto turn from technology leaders to leaders of a cultural change? Info Queue, pp.1-23.
Hazzan, O., & Seger, T. (2010).Recruiting software practitioners: the importance of self-efficacy. The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Special issue on Software Human Capital, 23 (3), pp. 8-12
Seger, T., Harpas, I., & Meshulam, I. (2011). Physicians in Israel Manage Risk of Litigation - Predicting Empowerment Role Model. International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 22, No.11, pp. 2442–2462
Daniels, S., Seger, T., & Guttmann, J. (2012). Occupational benefits and costs: The case of school counselors. Psychology & Education, 49 (3), 1-15.
Seger-Guttmann,T., Medler-Liraz,H., & Guttmann, J.(2013)."If you are my friend please show your anger…"Differences between friends and colleagues in faking emotions. Interpersona | An International Journal on Personal Relationships 6(2), 1-8
Van Dijk, D., Seger-Guttmann,T., & Heller,D.(2013). Life-threatening events reduce subjective well-being through activating avoidance motivation: a longitudinal study. Emotion. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/a0029973
Seger-Guttmann, T., & Medler-Liraz H. (2013). "Calling Again…” Relationships between customer repeat calls, hostility and service quality. Services Marketing Quarterly, 34 (2) 159-174.DOI:10.1080/15332969.2013.770686
Seger-Guttmann, T., & Vilnai-Yavetz, I. (2014). "God of small things" – Service interactions roots in regulatory focus and affectivity. Interpersona | An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 8(1), 1-14
Seger-Guttmann, T., & MacCormick, J. (2014). Employees’ Service Recovery Efforts as a Function of Perceptions of Interactional Justice in Individualistic vs. Collectivistic Cultures. European Journal International Management, Vol. 8, No. 2,160-178.)
Seger-Guttmann, T., & Medler-Liraz, H. (2015). The Costs of Hiding and Faking Emotions: The Case of Extraverts and Introverts, The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 150(3), 342-357
Medler-Liraz, H., & Seger-Guttmann, T. (2015). The relationship between emotional labor strategies, service provider hostility and service quality. Services Marketing Quarterly, 36 (3) 210 - 225.
Seger-Guttmann, T., & Medler-Liraz, H. (2016). "Does emotional labor moderate customer participation and buying?" The Service Industry Journal. 36 (7-8), 356-373
Seger-Guttmann, T., Vilnai-Yavetz, I., & Rosenbaum, M. (2017). Disparate satisfaction scores? Consider your customer’s country-of-origin: a case study. The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 27(2), 189- 206
Rosenbaum, M.S., Baniya, R., & Seger-Gutmmann, T. (2017). Customer Responses towards Disabled Frontline Employees. International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 45(4), 385-401
Rosenbaum, M.S., Seger-Guttmann T., & Giraldo, M. (May 2017). Commentary: Vulnerable Consumers in Service Settings, Journal of Services Marketing, 31(4/5), 309-312
Medler-Liraz,H., & Seger-Guttmann,T.(2017)."Authentic Emotional Displays, LMX and Emotional Exhaustion, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 25(1), 76-84
Seger-Guttmann, T., & Medler-Liraz, H. (2018). Hospitality Service Employees' Flirting Displays: Does Flirting represents a new Form of Emotional Labor? Accepted for publication in International Journal of Hospitality Management
Seger-Guttmann, T., Vilnai-Yavetz, I., Wang, C., & Petuzzelli, L. (2018). Illegitimate Returns as a Trigger for Customers’ Ethical Dissonance. Journal of Retailing and Consumers Services, 45, 120-131
Rosenbaum, M., Seger-Guttmann, T. and Mimran, O. (Oct.2018). The role of social incompatibility in customer discomfort Journal of Service Management; 31(4), 815-837
Seger-Guttmann, T. (2019). Customer Irrational beliefs: A Scale Development and Validation. Journal of Retailing and Consumers Services, 49, 54-66
Gilboa, S., Seger-Guttmann, T. & Mimran, O. (2019). The unique role of relationship marketing in small service businesses' customer experience. Journal of Retailing and Consumers Services, 51, 152-164
Seger-Guttmann, T. & Medler-Liraz, H. (2020). Does emotional labor color service actions in customer buying? Accepted for publication 6.3.2020; Journal of Services Marketing
Seger-Guttmann, T., Gilboa, S., & Partouch Sebban, J. (2020). ‘I live with terror inside me”: exploring customer’s instinctive reactions to terror. International Journal of Hospitality Management , 92, 102734.
Medler-Liraz, H., & Seger-Guttmann, T. (2021). The joint effect of flirting and emotional labor on customer service-related outcomes. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 60, 102497
Seger-Guttmann, T., & Amit, K. (2021). Who trusts whom? The case of immigrant service Professionals. Accepted: September 3rd. Service Industries Journal,doi: 10.1080/02642069.2021.1978986
Gilboa, S., Seger-Guttmann, T. and Partouche-Sebban, J. (2022). Increasing customer loyalty and WOM in an age of terror: cross-cultural development and validation of customers’ reaction to terror scale (CRTS) accepted) Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services,63 102704.
Seger-Guttmann, T. and Medler-Liraz, H. (2023), Flirting in service encounters: does the server’s sex matter?, Journal of Services Marketing, Vol. 37 No. 5, pp. 549-562.
Seger-Guttmann, T. and Gilboa, S. (2023). The role of a safe service environment in tourists' trust and behaviors. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 55 (2023) 187–197.
סגר-גוטמן, טלי 2012. זיוף רגשות במפגש שירות בין רופא לחולה. מצוינות בשירות, .4–5.
Seger-Guttmann, T. and Amit, K. (2024). Minority service providers serving majority group customers: The relations between power attribution, empathy and emotional labor. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 80, 103905.
Seger-Guttmann, T., Medler-Liraz, H., Rosenbaum, M. and Martin, D. (2024). Transformative Journey Experiences to Heritage Sites: A Dark Tourism Spectrum.[Accepted for publication: Journal of Heritage Tourism; September 30th 2024].
Medler-Liraz, H., & Seger-Guttmann, T. (2025). Service employees’ flirting type and customers’ outcomes in luxury and non-luxury restaurants. Journal of Services Marketing.