This presentation discusses salesperson performance, behavior, role perceptions, and satisfaction. It presents a model of salesperson performance that is determined by personal traits, role perceptions, skills, motivation, rewards, and satisfaction. It explores how role conflict and ambiguity can impact motivation and job satisfaction. Additionally, it examines how sales aptitude is influenced by both innate personal characteristics and learned skills.
2. SALESPERSON PERFORMANCE: BEHAVIOR, MOTIVATION, AND ROLE PERCEPTIONS
Learning Objectives
• Understand the model of
salesperson performance
• Identify the various components that
make up the model
• Discuss the role perception process
• Understand why salespeople are
susceptible to role issues
4. SALESPERSON PERFORMANCE: BEHAVIOR, MOTIVATION, AND ROLE PERCEPTIONS
Role Perceptions
• Perceived role conflict – arises when
role demands of role partners are
perceived as incompatible
• Perceived role ambiguity – occurs
when necessary information to
perform role is perceived as not
available
5. SALESPERSON PERFORMANCE: BEHAVIOR, MOTIVATION, AND ROLE PERCEPTIONS
Role Perceptions
• Role inaccuracy – degree to which
perceptions of demands are not
accurate
• Importance of role perceptions
• Can produce job dissatisfaction
• Can affect motivation
• In certain situations, can enable
salespeople to make beneficial creative
decisions
7. SALESPERSON PERFORMANCE: BEHAVIOR, MOTIVATION, AND ROLE PERCEPTIONS
Are Good Salespeople Born or Made?
• Sales aptitude has sometimes been
thought to be a function of:
• Physical factors – age, attractiveness
• Aptitude factors – verbal intelligence,
sales expertise
• Personality characteristics – empathy,
sociability
8. SALESPERSON PERFORMANCE: BEHAVIOR, MOTIVATION, AND ROLE PERCEPTIONS
leadership
Personal Traits that Lead to Sales Success
• Optimism
• Resilience
• Self-motivations
• Personality
• Empathy
13. SALESPERSON PERFORMANCE: BEHAVIOR, MOTIVATION, AND ROLE PERCEPTIONS
Rewards
• Extrinsic rewards – controlled and
bestowed by people other than the
salesperson
• Pay
• Financial incentives
• Security
• Recognition
• Promotion
14. SALESPERSON PERFORMANCE: BEHAVIOR, MOTIVATION, AND ROLE PERCEPTIONS
Rewards
• Intrinsic rewards – things that
salespeople primarily attain for
themselves
• Feelings of accomplishment
• Personal growth
• Self-worth
16. SALESPERSON PERFORMANCE: BEHAVIOR, MOTIVATION, AND ROLE PERCEPTIONS
Satisfaction
• Job satisfaction – all the
characteristics of the job that
salespeople find rewarding, fulfilling,
and satisfying
• Extrinsic satisfaction – based on
extrinsic rewards
• Intrinsic satisfaction – based on
intrinsic rewards