THE MEDIATING ROLE OF INTERNAL MARKET ORIENTATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED SERVICE QUALITY AND JOB SATISFACTION: THE CASE OF TURKISH HOTEL COMPANIES

Year 2021, Volume: 23 Issue: 1, 471 - 492, 10.06.2021

Selda Uca , Gökçe Yüksek , Demet Tüzünkan

https://doi.org/10.26468/trakyasobed.837035

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine whether service quality perceptions of hotel employees affect their work job satisfaction and to reveal whether internal market orientation has an intermediary role in this interaction. The population of the research is “All employees working in hotels with tourism establishment certificates which were operating in Turkey throughout the month of June 2019”. Data obtained from AKTOB – Association of Mediterranean Tourism, were used to determine the population size of the research. Within the scope of the data obtained, the size of the population was set as 315.513 people. Since it was not possible for the population, random sampling was used. In sampling, out of random sampling methods, the “field sampling method” was adopted. For this study, a test model has been developed and a survey has been conducted on 303 employees. In this study, internal market orientation was researched by using the structural equation model by associating the perceived service quality and job satisfaction. The most striking result of the study is the high causality impact of internal market orientation on job satisfaction. Employees, who feel that they are being cared about more in terms of internal market orientation, will have higher job satisfaction and high corporate loyalty. As a result of the Sobel Test, which was carried out to support the result regarding the mediation effect, also shows that the mediation effect is significant.

Keywords

Internal Market Orientation, Perceived Service Quality, Job Satisfaction, Hotel Indusrty

ALGILANAN HİZMET KALİTESİ VE İŞ TATMİNİ İLİŞKİSİNDE İÇSEL PAZAR ODAKLILIĞIN ARACILIK ETKİSİ: TÜRK OTELLERİ ÖRNEĞİ

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye'deki otel işletmesi çalışanlarının hizmet kalitesi algılamalarının iş tatminlerini etkileyip etkilemediğini tespit etmek ve bu etkileşimde içsel pazar odaklılığın aracılık rolü olup olmadığını ortaya koymaktır. Araştırmanın evrenini "2019 Haziran ayı süresince Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren turizm işletme belgeli otellerde çalışantüm çalışanlar" oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmanın evren büyüklüğünün belirlenmesinde AKTOB – Akdeniz Turistik Otelciler ve İşletmeciler Birliği’nden alınan veriler kullanılmıştır. Elde edilen veriler kapsamında evrenin büyüklüğü 315.513 kişi olarak tespit edilmiştir. Evrenin tümüne ulaşmak mümkün olmadığından örnekleme yoluna gidilmiştir. Örneklemede tesadüfi örnekleme yöntemlerinden “alanlara göre örnekleme yöntemi” kullanılmıştır. Önerilen model 303 otel çalışanı üzerinde test edilmiştir. Verilerin analizinde Yapısal Eşitlik Modellemesi’nin (YEM) kullanıldığı bu araştırma sonucunda, algılanan hizmet kalitesinin iş tatmini üzerinde etkisi olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Aynı zamanda, içsel pazar odaklılığın algılanan hizmet kalitesi ve iş tatmini arasındaki ilişki üzerinde kısmi (partial) bağdaştırıcı etkisi olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Analiz sonucunda aracılık etkisine ilişkin sonucu desteklemek amacıyla gerçekleştirilen Sobel Testi de aracılık etkisinin anlamlı olduğunu göstermektedir.

Keywords

İçsel Pazar Odaklılık, Algılanan Hizmet Kalitesi, İş Tatmini, Otelcilik Sektörü, Türkiye

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