• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.17 no.32
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• pp.27-42
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• 1994

In the view point of accomplishing salesperson's management effectively, this study aims to find the relationship between salesperson's performance factors(Motivation, Role Perception, Ability) and turnover intention. The lowering of the turnover rate through this finding can reduce sales cost or marketing cost including the salesperson's education/training cost. Here, this study is researched empirically under the following hypothesis ; salesperson's turnover intention is affected by the performance factors originally This empirical research is based on theoritical background by Walker, Churchill, Ford and Jackofsky.

• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.1-27
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• 2006

The purpose of this research is to investigate effects of perceived attributes of a salesperson on the customer s satisfaction with the salesperson. cross-buying intentions, and intentions to recommend the retailer, in the context of consumer durable goods. The data for analysis was obtained from 252 consumers who experienced buying consumer durable goods in a metropolitan area. Our results show as following: first, the effects of perceived attributes of the salesperson such as expertise, trustworthiness, likability, and customer orientation, have a significant influence on customer's satisfaction with salesperson; second perceived customer-orientation of salesperson affects customer's satisfaction with the retailer; third, a customer s satisfaction with salesperson not only plays a mediating role between perceived attributes of the salesperson and the customer's satisfaction with retailer but also between perceived attributes of salesperson and cross-buying intentions and intentions to recommend the retailer; and fourth customer's satisfaction with retailers performs a mediating role between perceived attributes of the salesperson and cross-buying intentions or recommendation intentions of retailers. In addition, managerial implications are suggested for industry practitioners.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.675-684
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• 2003

The purposes of this study was to identify the dimensions of salesperson's effort and to examine the effect of salesperson's effort on relationship quality and customer intent to relationship continuity of middle upper class older female customers. The subjects used for the study were 202 middle upper class older female customers over 55 years living in Seoul. Factor analysis, paired t-test, multiple regression analysis and path analysis were used for statistics analysis. The results of this study were as follows. First, 5 factors were identified for the dimensions of salesperson's effort in older female customer's perception: attentiveness/product competence/effective access/friendliness/ special treatment. The salesperson's effort perceived most importantly was friendliness. Second, the salesperson's effort perceived by customer had direct and indirect effects on customer intent to relationship continuity; indirect effect mediated by relationship quality was larger than the direct one. Relationship quality was proved to have a crucial role in customer intent to relationship continuity. The influences of dimensions of salesperson's effort were also investigated. The effective access affected considerably on customer intent to relationship continuity.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.705-714
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• 2003

Recent Studies have shown evidence of a positive relationship between market orientation and performance. However, some scholars have suggested that customer satisfaction, salespeople's job satisfaction, and product quality etc. could moderate this relationship. According to the increase of market oriented efforts of apparel firms and importance of the salespeople's role, this study focuses on the effect of market orientation on performance of apparel firms through the salespeople's job satisfaction and customer satisfaction. It is found that market orientation has a positive effect on the salespeople's job satisfaction and customer satisfaction. The salesperson's job satisfaction was found to influence on the performance through the customer satisfaction. The customer satisfaction has strong influence on the performance directly. Market orientation appears to provide a unifying focus for the efforts of salespeople within the organization, thereby leading to customer satisfaction and superior performance.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.16-35
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• 2023

The advent of Omni Channel has changed the fashion business model and the role of fashion sales persons. In such situation, internal marketing can become an important organizational management strategy for fashion companies. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the components of internal marketing of fashion companies for fashion shop masters in an omni channel environment. To achieve the purpose of this study, To achieve the purpose of this study, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate the internal marketing sub-factors of fashion companies. In-depth interviews were conducted for qualitative study. Seven respondents to the in-depth interview were fashion shop masters who had at least 10 years of field work experience. As a result of the qualitative study, internal marketing was derived from five factors, including empowerment, education and training, rewards, internal communication, and management supports. Empowerment factors consist of initiative, encourage creativity, and problem solving. Education and training factors consist of the degree of education and training opportunities, the value of education and training, and the scope of education and training. Rewards factors consist of diversity of rewards, fairness of rewards, and source of rewards. Internal communication factors consist of communication flexibility, diversity of communication and receptivity of communication. Management support factors consist of headquarters support and department store support.