A relevância da comunicação não-verbal na eficiência dos vendedores

Abstract

This study investigates the influence of non-verbal communication on the efficiency of salespersons, through an analysis of how well different subjects can perceive-recognize universal facial expressions of emotions. Our subjects were 15 salespeople employed by a retail and service company and 100 graduate business students of a university in Goiânia. A questionnaire and the “reading faces” test (Ekman (2003) were applied to each subject. The test consists of 14 photographs of the face of a same person with facial expressions of sadness, disgust, happiness, anger, fear and disdain. The hypthesis, that the more one knows how to interpret emotional facial expressions, the more successful persons are in their sales results (as presented in the literature), was not confirmed, although it was demonstrated in the study that all the salespeople tend to make use of non-verbal communication in their daily activities.