Relation Between Employees and Customers Affects to the Positive Word of Mouth Through Customer Satisfaction

NGUYEN,, M. H. , TRAN,, B. T. , & HUYNH,, L. T. (2019). Relation Between Employees and Customers Affects to the Positive Word of Mouth Through Customer Satisfaction. The Journal of Distribution Science, 17(6), 65-75, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15722/jds.17.6.201906.65

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Purpose - Vietnamese customers have a crowd psychology when choosing and buying cars, they believe the advice and comments of those who have used the product. This paper aims to explore how factors in the relation between employees and customers affect to the customer's positive word of mouth (WOM) through customer satisfaction. Research design, data, and methodology - A survey was conducted with 250 customers. This research focus on six factors: (1) familiarity, (2) care, (3) personal connection, (4) employee competence, (5) customer satisfaction, (6) positive WOM. By using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Model (SEM), this research determined the impact of relation between eployees and customers to the customer satisfaction in order to have the positive WOM to another customers. Results - This result shows that 3 factors: care, personal connection and service quality, have positive effects to customer satisfaction. Moreover, the similar relationship is found between customer satisfaction and positive WOM. The familiarity is not significant in this research. Conclusions - The research results indicate that positive WOM has an important impact of market development for automobile business enterprises in Vietnam. Therefore, administrators should have appropriate strategies to encourage positive WOM to customers.

keywords: Automobile Business Company, Customer Relationship, Customer Satisfaction, Relation between Employees and Customer, Positive Word of Mouth

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Relation Between Employees and Customers Affects to the Positive Word of Mouth Through Customer Satisfaction

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