The purpose of this study is to determine effects of the cultural type of hotel business in Korean on market orientation and effects of the orientation on organizational members' organizational committment, job satisfaction and customer orientation an...
The purpose of this study is to determine effects of the cultural type of hotel business in Korean on market orientation and effects of the orientation on organizational members' organizational committment, job satisfaction and customer orientation and on subjective performance parameters such as improvement in the committment and objective performance indices such as market share. For the purpose, this researcher surveyed special 1st and 2nd class hotel businesses around the nation.
The result of the study can be summarized and bring suggestions as follows ;
First, effects of cultural types such as reform, relationship, hierarchy and task orientations on market orientation were analyzed. As a result, it was found that the culture of hierarchy orientation negatively influenced market orientation, while that of either reform or relationship orientation positively.
This indicates that market orientation become higher when hotel businesses emphasize organizational changes and reforms to cope with environmental changes, consider creativity and challenge as valuable, respect harmony, solidarity and teamwork among organizational members and take more care of and pay more attention to such members. In contrast, hotel organizations that are passive about changes and reforms while sticking to conventional procedures, rules and hierarchy had negative effects on the formation and establishment of market orientation.
Second, relations between market orientation and organizational members' organizational committment and job satisfaction were analyzed to find that when the orientation was higher, the committment and satisfaction were more. This suggests that if organizational members recognize their hotels as having a higher market orientation, they become more committed to their organizations and more satisfied with their jobs.
Third, relations between market orientation and organizational members' customer orientation were analyzed. As a result, it was found that the former positively influenced the latter. This indicates that organizational members who recognize their businesses as having a higher market orientation come to have attitudes of orienting customer satisfaction and make efforts to provide higher quality customer service and meet customer needs.
Fourth, a hypothesis about relations between market orientation and business performances was tested to find that market orientation had relatively positive effects on the rates of sales increase and market share as financial performance parameters. and also that market orientation largely positive influenced psychological performance parameters such as organizational members' organizational committment, development and success of new products and improvements in service quality and customer satisfaction.
All these findings make clear that activities by hotel businesses with a high market orientation contribute to promote business performances and lead their member to have job satisfaction, organizational committment and customer orientation more, realizing customer-oriented service and improving business performances further.
Consequently, it is very important that hotel businesses build up their own culture orienting reforms and relationships and thereon perform market-oriented activities totally. They also need to be interested in inner customer marketing.
This study can be significant in that it employed cultural types, that had never been discussed before, as factors influencing market orientation and that it analyzed relations between market orientation and organizational members' organizational committment, job satisfaction and customer orientation and between market orientation and business performances.