The background of the psychological empowerment theory which has been researched into as part of motivation theories of personnel affairs and organization involves cost saving and efficiency in the manufacturing process. However, this study aimed to t...
The background of the psychological empowerment theory which has been researched into as part of motivation theories of personnel affairs and organization involves cost saving and efficiency in the manufacturing process. However, this study aimed to test the effects of supervisor's psychological empowerment on internal customer satisfaction and customer-oriented propensity from the customer- oriented perspective that employees are the primary customers of the company as contact points between marketing and organization.
To this end, the researcher reviewed the literature which had analyzed preceding studies and thereupon, tested the model empirically. Specifically, the researcher extensively reviewed such literature in addition to analysis of diverse empirical researches as domestic and foreign dissertations and reports to analyze and redefine existing theories.
For the empirical study, the researcher used the concepts established through theoretical studies to construct a research model about the effects of the internal customer satisfaction psychologically empowered on sales personnels's performances, and thereupon, set some hypothesis to test the model. Then, the researcher sampled the corporate sales personnels who were positioned at the contact points with customers; the sales personnels were sampled from various businesses including manufacturing, financing, service and logistics. For the hypotheses testing, the SPSS/PC 10.0 statistical package program was used.
The results of this study suggest that supervisors' psychological empowerment affects internal customer satisfaction and customer -oriented propensity and that internal customer satisfaction in turn affects customer-oriented propensity. Namely, there was found some significant correlation between supervisor's psychological empowerment and internal customer satisfaction or customer-oriented propensity, which must be useful to effective management of the sales people.
Preceding studies have researched into empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational engagement in terms of personnel affairs and organization or in view of production management and productivity. In the overall terms of management, productivity may be important, but what is more important is how to manage the organization members at the contact points with external customers to improve their customer-oriented propensity.
Thus, corporate marketing managers and sales managers are obliged to understand the factors of internal customer satisfaction and improve sales personnels' job satisfaction and customer-oriented propensity for better customer services and sharper competitive edge.