The growth in services has focused issues of service quality both for commercial enterprises and across a range of public services and government institutions. The education sector, in particular, has undergone radical change to meet the needs of its ...
The growth in services has focused issues of service quality both for commercial enterprises and across a range of public services and government institutions. The education sector, in particular, has undergone radical change to meet the needs of its varied constituents. This paper examines key issues in internal marketing, customer satisfaction, service quality, relational commitment as they apply in one particular education sector.
The purpose of this study is to analyze effect of internal marketing on customer satisfaction, educational service quality, and relational commitment. First, In the dimension of internal marketing, many factors affect internal customer's evaluation for overall satisfaction. They are categorized as five factors; empowerment, communication, reward system, internal support, and education/training.
The results of this study supported the proposed conceptual framework overall. Therefore, we identified that internal marketing is the antecedent of an internal customer satisfaction, and the consequent variables of an internal customer satisfaction are educational service quality, external customer satisfaction, and relational commitment. The major findings of this study are summarized as follows. First, some factors(reward system, internal support, education/training) affected positively internal customer satisfaction. Second, Internal customer satisfaction affected positively educational service quality, external satisfaction, and relational commitment. In other words, the more internal customers have experienced internal marketing, the higher internal customers deliver educational service quality. Third, relational commitment is enhanced by higher external satisfaction.