Figure 1From “Digitization changes sales effectiveness and job insecurity”
The digitization paired-outcome review card
Review capability gain and perceived work risk together without collapsing them into one score.
Figure 1The digitization paired-outcome review card
| Review field | Capability or effectiveness question | Work-risk question | Release boundary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work change | Which selling activity became more effective? | Which task, skill, or role became uncertain? | Name the work change before interpreting the result. |
| Knowledge | What knowledge is now available or required? | Who may be expected to learn it, and with what support? | Do not call provision capability. |
| Control | Which behavior or outcome is more visible? | How might visibility change perceived autonomy or evaluation? | More monitoring is not automatically better control. |
| Communication | What digitization strategy was explained? | Which role, boundary, and uncertainty remain unresolved? | A message is not proof of trust. |
| Outcome | Which effectiveness object was measured? | Which insecurity measure was used? | Keep the two outcomes separate. |
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Source: Author's review framework grounded in Johnson and Bharadwaj (2005) and Ahearne, Hughes, and Schillewaert (2007). The prompts are synthetic and do not assess a current workforce or implementation.
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Each line names a claim related to this exhibit, its source, and how it was checked.
- A JB05-C1 The sample, verbatim: "using data from salespeople in 168firms they assess the moderating effects of environmentallevel motivational factors and firm level ability factors"Johnson & Bharadwaj. (2005)
- A JB05-C2 The finding is called paradoxical by the authors themselves: "digitization has the paradoxical effect of improving salesperson effectiveness and heightening job insecurity concerns"Johnson & Bharadwaj. (2005)
- A JB05-C3 The levers are named in the abstract: "managers can improve the technology-enabled multichannel capabilities of the firm by giving priority attention to human capital improve""ment, sales force control systems, and communication of the digitization strategy"Johnson & Bharadwaj. (2005)
- A AHS07-C2 The proposed mechanism, in their words: "salespeople using it expand their knowledge and in turn gain improved targeting abilities enhanced presentation skills and increased call productivity"Ahearne, Hughes & Schillewaert. (2007)
- A AHS07-C3 Acceptance is the variable, not provision: "it acceptance indeed has a positive effect on sales performance", and the incentive to accept follows from what acceptance buys the salespersonAhearne, Hughes & Schillewaert. (2007)
Grades: A, verified against the printed page of the primary source · B, primary source, text layer only · C, authoritative secondary · D, reported.
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Digitization changes sales effectiveness and job insecurity
Digitization can improve sales effectiveness and heighten job-insecurity concerns: review capability, control, communication, and risk together.
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