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Internal marketing is the handling of employees of an organization as internal customers and as
organizational products that satisfy the needs and desires of external customers. Previously, the
primary concerns of many organizations were external customers only. However, in today’s
world, competition among service companies is high and the company is concerned with internal
marketing, or marketing to employees of the organization, in addition to external marketing. The
main purpose of the study was to assess the determinants of internal marketing practices on
employee job satisfaction in ACSI in the Awi administration zone of Fagitalekoma and Banja
woreda ACSI branches. The study used an explanatory, quantitative research design and the
data collection method was cross-sectional and used a structured questionnaire for primary data
collection. The target populations of the study were 166. Of the 117 selected from the total
employees in ACSI at Fagitalkoma and Banja woreda, six branches were selected through a
simple random sampling method by Yemen’s formula. Statistical Packages for Social Science
(SPSS) version 26.0 was used to analyze data using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Multiple regression analysis techniques were used to explain the nature and impact of the
relationship between employees’ job satisfaction and the (internal communication, training,
work environment, reward, and infrastructure) factors that affect it. The Pearson correlation
result of the study showed that there is a positive relationship among determinants of internal
marketing dimensions. Training has a positive and strong relationship with job satisfaction, and
internal communication, reward, and infrastructure have positive and moderately relationships
with job satisfaction, while the work environment has weak relationships with job satisfaction.
The result of the regression analysis showed that training, reward, and internal communication
explain 37.9% of the change in employee job satisfaction and the analysis revealed that there are
other elements that influence employee job satisfaction in ACSI. In order to attain the highest
degree of employee job satisfaction, the head branch of ACSI and Awi district ACSI should make
every effort to focus on reward, training, and internal communication while engaging in internal
marketing operations. Future studies also focus on large-scale and longitudinal studies on other
internal marketing dimensions with related institutions. |
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