• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.29-36
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• 2015

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of effective role-play and training on employee education satisfaction and customer orientation. Evidence of the suggested objective is obtained by monitoring the effectiveness of hotel service training. Research design, data, and methodology - Data were collected from 280 role-play sessions performed in a Korean Hotel and examined using a frequency analysis, reliability/validity assessments, correlation analysis, and regression analysis using SPSS 19.0. Results - 1) Entrepreneurs and training instructors should enthusiastically apply service education in order to enhance each employee d evaluation in terms of customer satisfaction and customer orientation. 2) The most effective factor on customer satisfaction and orientation is the instructor's qualifications. 3) Since a higher level of education-training satisfaction leads to better customer orientation, effective education-training is essential to achieve this result. Conclusions - The study was able to obtain practical evidence that can confirm that service education-training through role-play positively affects employee customer service orientation. In future advanced research on training effects on customer orientation, various internal factors of a business should also be considered.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.45-58
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to identify how to improve the quality of department store's sales associates for customer loyalty. This study examines the importance of sales associates' education, skills, and customer service towards customer loyalty. The questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data from 220 clothing sales associates working in department stores. This survey was paper-based. The participants were asked about the questionnaires; sales associates' education, sales associates' ability, customer service, and customer loyalty. General demographic characteristic of participants in the study are as follows; females (72.27%) participated the survey more than males (27.73%). With the age ranging from early 20s to over 40s, most people who took the survey ranged from early 30's to mid 30's with 33.64%. The result indicated that sales associates' education, and customer service skills were significantly corelated to each other. Sales associates' education had no co relation to customer loyalty. In applying the research findings, department stores can design their training contents to offer better training quality. Education of sales associates can be focused by providing various training contents, exercise, effective options, along with the opportunity to improve the qualities of training.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.337-345
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• 2011

Purpose: This study was conducted to evaluate the relationships among the service education satisfaction, service involvement, and customer orientation of hospital employees after yearly-planned MOT service education. Methods: The data collection was done through the questionnaire survey in a university hospital located in D city from March 15 to 31, 2010. The statistical analysis was done by SPSS/WIN 18.0 program. Results: The enrolled employees were two hundred and seventy six. Among the characteristics of employees, adequate work load, good payment, reasonable promotion system, suitability of work aptitude and good relationships with staff improved the service education satisfaction, customer orientation, and service involvement of hospital employees. For the customer orientation, old age and lower educational background were positive factors. The correlations among the service education satisfaction, customer orientation, and service involvement of hospital employees were significant. The factors that affect customer orientation and service involvement were found to be age, suitability of work aptitude and service education satisfaction. Conclusion: In conclusion, customer orientation and service involvement were related with the satisfaction of employees for working condition and service education. In terms of good medical service quality, plans for maintaining adequate working environment and systematic service education should be established.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.101-111
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• 2019

In distance learning, quality of service is an important part of improving customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. However, in verifying the effectiveness of remote education service quality, it has been researched based on fragmentary effects on remote education service quality, and the effect study on the specific target is insufficient. In this study, the effects of remote education service factors on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty were analyzed in the previous study and among job seekers. The survey was conducted from March 2019 and 258 samples of job seekers who experienced remote education were used for empirical analysis. As a result of the analysis, typology, problem solving, interaction, information serviceability, and convenience had a positive effect on customer satisfaction, and satisfaction had a significant influence on customer loyalty. In addition, it was analyzed that characterization, problem-solving, interaction, information serviceability, convenience and customer loyalty were affected in the verification of the mediated effects of satisfaction. In response, the implications of this study were derived from practical research on customer satisfaction and loyalty of educational companies related to eduTech, where education and ICT (Information Communication Technology) were integrated during the 4th Industrial Revolution, which suggested that the quality of a company's remote education service affected customer satisfaction and customer loyalty to entrepreneurs and marketers in the education company's start-up and marketing process. Further, further research will be needed in other areas as well as in the areas of employment education to verify the importance of service quality and assess the various effects.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.155-166
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• 2011

In this research, we study on to find the inter-relation among education service quality and customer satisfaction and re-use focusing on E life-long education center. Education service quality consists of four factors such as training center's facility, trainer, employee's service and operating service. As like the results of this research, we found that three factors of education service quality such as facility, trainer and operating service give a positive effect to customer satisfaction and also we found that customer satisfaction gives a positive effect to re-use.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.79-94
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• 2013

Purpose: Life insurance company provides insurance planners various education program to inspire service mind and to enhance its customer satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of service quality of education on service commitment and to propose the implication for the effective service education. Methods: This study is intended to identify how service quality of education from the planners in life insurance affects service commitment. The research model is tested via a survey of 307 life insurance planners. Results: This study shows that tangibles, assurance, responsiveness, and empathy in the educational service quality significantly influence education satisfaction. It also positively affect customer orientation and service commitment, but it also shows that reliability in the educational service quality has very little effect on customer satisfaction. Conclusion: This study emphasizes the service quality of education on life insurance planner and also suggests practical plan to increase the service quality of education. This study has more focused on the direction in the service quality of education for making the close long-term relationship with customer.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.309-316
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• 2008

In a study on effect of service education and training for tour conductors upon customer orientation and satisfaction it was shown that in view of insufficient service of education and training for tour conductors and increased number of population travelling by utilizing travel firms and their call for satisfying diverse demand there is need for customer oriented tour conductors to induce customer satisfaction through diverse role playing by tour conductors. It was indicated that such efforts lead to customer satisfaction and also has impact on improving image of company and on creating new customer. In view of such factors there is need for well planned, persistent education and training for service to heighten satisfaction of customer through well organized operation of service education and training program for tour conductors and through its continuous practice and experience.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.1378-1387
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to extract the factors affecting service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty and to find out what effect service quality & customer satisfaction, service quality & customer loyalty, and customer satisfaction & customer loyalty respectively. The results of hypothesis testing through regression analysis showed that the hypothesis between service quality of ship management company and customer satisfaction was accepted in terms of all 5 service quality dimensions of tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. Also, the hypothesis between service quality of ship management companies and customer loyalty was accepted in terms of all 5 service quality dimensions of tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. Lastly, the hypothesis between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty was accepted.

• The Korean Journal of Franchise Management
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.43-60
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• 2024

Purpose: According to previous studies, customer experience had a significant effect on consumer behaviors. In this perspective, this study investigates the structural relationship among customer experience, resort use satisfaction, and customer behavioral intentions, with focus on the mediating role of resort use satisfaction. Research design, data, and methodology: Data collected from 361 individuals who had experienced the resort service were analyzed using SPSS 29.0 and AMOS 29.0, involving frequency analysis, HTMT, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation model testing. Result: Firstly, cognitive, and relational experiences had significant effect on resort use satisfaction. Secondly, resort use satisfaction had significant effect on customer behavioral intentions. Thirdly, resort use satisfaction had partial mediating effects in the relationship between customer experiences and customer behavioral intentions. Conclusion: This study academically confirmed the empirical link between customer experience and consumer behaviors. From a practical standpoint, it suggests the necessity of marketing activities that enhance customers' perception of their experiences, as well as resort use satisfaction and customer behavioral intentions, through systematic CS education and management of the physical environment.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.57-75
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• 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to recognize the importance of a cooperative relationship in which parents of early childhood education institutions share responsibility and authority, and to suggest ways to establish efficient management strategies. Methods: The survey was conducted through online responses using Google surveys and SNS. The collected data was collected using SPSS 22.0 and Smart PLS 4.0 statistical programs. Results: Among the 13 hypotheses, only expertise in educational service quality was confirmed to have no effect on customer trust. The verification results of 11 mediation effects confirmed that customer satisfaction does not mediate the relationship between non-verbal communication and customer loyalty, and that customer trust does not mediate the relationship between expertise and verbal communication on customer loyalty. Conclusion: We presented basic data for establishing a marketing strategy that can improve the quality of services of infant and toddler education institutions and increase management performance.