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The purposes of this study are dual. Firstly, it’s to understand the effect of sales skill dimensions
namely: interpersonal, salesmanship, technical and marketing skills on sales person performance
in Ethio Telecom North West Region sales force. Secondly, it’s sought to find out the effect of
Organizational Commitment both as moderator and independent variable. The research design is
quantitative, particularly, it uses inferential statistics. Data was collected from all the population
of the study, 129 sales persons working for commercial domain in North West Region. The
findings from this research inferred that from the dimensions of sales skills, technical and
interpersonal skills appeared to be significant predictors of sales performance. Surprisingly, the
findings also revealed that salesmanship skills, and marketing skills do not influence salesperson
performance. The research confirmed that organizational commitment of the sales person has no
direct influence on personal selling performance. But it has moderating influence on personal
selling performance. From the demographic variables, sales experience has significant and
positive impact on personal sales performance. |
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