Korean J Occup Health Nurs.  2012 Nov;21(3):299-307.

Influence of Internal Marketing Perception, Empowerment, and Job satisfaction on Customer Orientation of Clinical Nurses

• Yi EA
• Yi YJ

Abstract

PURPOSE
This descriptive study attempted to identify the influence of internal marketing perception, empowerment, and job satisfaction on customer orientation of clinical nurses.
METHODS
The subjects were 411 nurses with over one year working experience in a university hospital, located in I-city. The data were collected from April 20 to 30, 2012. using a self-report questionnaire. The data were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression with the SPSS/WIN 17.0 program.
RESULTS
There were significant differences in customer orientation depending on general characteristics(age, marital status, education, position, clinical experience, and department). Internal marketing perception, empowerment, and job satisfaction correlated with customer orientation. As the results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis for impact factors on nurses' customer orientation show, factors are the outpatient department in working places(beta=.10), education and training in internal marketing perception(beta=.12) and empowerment(beta=.44), which accounted for 31.1% of customer orientation.
CONCLUSION
Therefore, nurse managers should identify the needs to perceive nurses as internal customers, and the internal marketing strategy should be performed to empower nurses. Also, it is needed to place nurses with high customer orientation at the outpatient department.

Keyword

Marketing; Empowerment; Job Satisfaction; Nurses

MeSH Terms

Humans
Hypogonadism
Job Satisfaction
Marital Status
Marketing
Mitochondrial Diseases
Nurse Administrators
Ophthalmoplegia
Orientation
Outpatients
Power (Psychology)
Surveys and Questionnaires
Hypogonadism
Mitochondrial Diseases
Ophthalmoplegia