Authors: Neeru Malhotra & Avinandan Mukherjee Jonathan Doles MGMT 435
To see if job satisfaction and organizational commitment effect the service quality of employees who have direct contact with the customers
Empirically test the relationship between service quality and: Job Satisfaction Three components of organizational commitment The relative importance of the effects of job satisfaction and organizational commitment
Petty 1984, Schneider and Bowen 1995, Yousef 2000, Organ 1977, Vroom 1964, Silvestro and Cross 2000, Hartline and Ferrell 1996, MacKenzie 1998 Meyer and Allen 1991, Suliman and Iles 2000, Suliman 2002
H1: Job satisfaction has a significant positive effect on the service quality of customer-contact employees H2: Affective commitment has a significant positive effect on service quality H3: Normative commitment has a significant positive effect on service quality H4: Continuance commitment has a significant negative effect on service quality H5: Job satisfaction has a more significant relationship with service quality than the three dimensions of organizational commitment
Affective Commitment : the employee's emotional attachment to, identification with, and involvement in the organization Normative Commitment : the employee's feelings of obligation to stay with the organization Continuance Commitment : the commitment based on the costs that the employee associates with leaving the organization
Study was done in the United Kingdom with one major retail bank Used self-administered anonymous questionnaires Originally given to 710 employees, 380 were completed, only 342 were applicable Questionnaire designed to have employees evaluated their own performance Five point ranging from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree”
H1: Job satisfaction has a significant positive effect on the service quality of customer-contact employees ACCEPTED H2: Affective commitment has a significant positive effect on service quality ACCEPTED H3: Normative commitment has a significant positive effect on service quality MARGINALLY SUPPORTED H4: Continuance commitment has a significant negative effect on service quality REJECTED H5: Job satisfaction has a more significant relationship with service quality than the three dimensions of organizational commitment REJECTED
Of all the components tested, only affective commitment has a significant relationship with service quality
Reconsider Hiring Criteria Personality vs. Skill Human Resource Management Job Satisfaction