The mediating and moderating effect of psychological factor and salesperson personality on the relationship between cognitive factors and customer satisfaction among automobile users / Sarah Sabir Ahmad

Customer satisfaction has been identified as the key performance indicator of a business and contributes to competitive advantage for the organization. Customer satisfaction changes over time and has been acknowledged as a crucial differentiator and key element to business strategies. Lack of custom...

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Main Author: Sabir Ahmad, Sarah
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Published: 2019
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spelling my-uitm-ir.829762024-02-09T05:35:52Z The mediating and moderating effect of psychological factor and salesperson personality on the relationship between cognitive factors and customer satisfaction among automobile users / Sarah Sabir Ahmad 2019 Sabir Ahmad, Sarah Automotive transportation Consumer satisfaction Malaysia Customer satisfaction has been identified as the key performance indicator of a business and contributes to competitive advantage for the organization. Customer satisfaction changes over time and has been acknowledged as a crucial differentiator and key element to business strategies. Lack of customer satisfaction provide a massive impact on the retention of the organization. Due to lackluster customer services, technical glitches and low product quality and services, Proton faced a tremendous decline in sales and lost the market share it once owned. The customer seems to switch from preferring Proton cars to other manufacturers. A minimal amount of research has been done to identify the root, yet the gap still transpires. Therefore, the aim of this present study is first; to determine the influence of cognitive factors (marketing and technological) on customer satisfaction and secondly; to identify the mediating effect of psychological factor on the relationship of cognitive factors and customer satisfaction. Besides, this study also aims to identify the moderating effect of the salesperson personality style (Type A or B) on the said relationship. Since this study is a quantitative in nature, it employed the self-administered questionnaire method for data collection. 2019 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/82976/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/82976/1/82976.pdf text en public phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Business and Management Wan Omar, Maznah
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Wan Omar, Maznah
topic Automotive transportation
Consumer satisfaction
Malaysia
spellingShingle Automotive transportation
Consumer satisfaction
Malaysia
Sabir Ahmad, Sarah
The mediating and moderating effect of psychological factor and salesperson personality on the relationship between cognitive factors and customer satisfaction among automobile users / Sarah Sabir Ahmad
description Customer satisfaction has been identified as the key performance indicator of a business and contributes to competitive advantage for the organization. Customer satisfaction changes over time and has been acknowledged as a crucial differentiator and key element to business strategies. Lack of customer satisfaction provide a massive impact on the retention of the organization. Due to lackluster customer services, technical glitches and low product quality and services, Proton faced a tremendous decline in sales and lost the market share it once owned. The customer seems to switch from preferring Proton cars to other manufacturers. A minimal amount of research has been done to identify the root, yet the gap still transpires. Therefore, the aim of this present study is first; to determine the influence of cognitive factors (marketing and technological) on customer satisfaction and secondly; to identify the mediating effect of psychological factor on the relationship of cognitive factors and customer satisfaction. Besides, this study also aims to identify the moderating effect of the salesperson personality style (Type A or B) on the said relationship. Since this study is a quantitative in nature, it employed the self-administered questionnaire method for data collection.
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author Sabir Ahmad, Sarah
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title The mediating and moderating effect of psychological factor and salesperson personality on the relationship between cognitive factors and customer satisfaction among automobile users / Sarah Sabir Ahmad
title_short The mediating and moderating effect of psychological factor and salesperson personality on the relationship between cognitive factors and customer satisfaction among automobile users / Sarah Sabir Ahmad
title_full The mediating and moderating effect of psychological factor and salesperson personality on the relationship between cognitive factors and customer satisfaction among automobile users / Sarah Sabir Ahmad
title_fullStr The mediating and moderating effect of psychological factor and salesperson personality on the relationship between cognitive factors and customer satisfaction among automobile users / Sarah Sabir Ahmad
title_full_unstemmed The mediating and moderating effect of psychological factor and salesperson personality on the relationship between cognitive factors and customer satisfaction among automobile users / Sarah Sabir Ahmad
title_sort mediating and moderating effect of psychological factor and salesperson personality on the relationship between cognitive factors and customer satisfaction among automobile users / sarah sabir ahmad
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Business and Management
publishDate 2019
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