Effect of Employee Involvement on Customer Service Delivery of Restaurants in Nairobi Kenya
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Date
2020
Authors
Nekesa, Tabitha Brenda
Wanjira, Jane
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IJCAB
Abstract
In the global market today, competition between various providers of service is brutal and firms in the service industry continuously endeavor to create, manage and maintain healthy relationships with customers, to gain competitive advantage over the others. When services are inappropriately handled and coordinated, the outcome is wrong perception of service quality, client’s complaints, staff turnover, low sales and customer dissatisfaction. This study investigated the effect of employee involvementon customer service delivery. The study wasguided by Resource based view theory, the SERVQUAL model and the Kanter’s theory of empowerment. Descriptive research design was adopted. Thisstudy targeted 50 full-service restaurants in Nairobi city.Six workers were then selected in the category of operational staff, supervisors and senior management. This formed a total population 740 respondents. The study adopted multistage sampling techniqueand obtained a sample of 216 respondents. The study used self-administered questionnaires as the major instrument for data collection.Pretesting the validity of the questionnaires a pilot study was done. Reliability of the questionnaire was evaluated using the Cronbach alpha test, which provided an acceptable threshold of 0.7. Descriptive statistics (in form of means, percentages & measures of dispersion) and analysis of inferential (multiple regressions) were applied to show the level of the association between the dependent and independent variables and the effect of the independent variables on dependent variables. The results indicated that there was a significant statistical relationship between the independent and the Customer service delivery, employee involvement R=0.212. The study therefore rejected the null hypotheses (H0) and accepted the alternate hypotheses (HA) ,that there is a significant relationship between Employee Involvementand Service delivery based on the correlational analysis and regression analysis results. The study concluded that it’s importantfor restaurants to involveemployees in decision making in order to create competitiveness in service delivery so as to achieve maximum customer satisfaction.
Description
A Paper Published in International Journal of Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Keywords
Employee Training, Leadership, Employee Involvement, Incentives, Small and Medium Size Restaurants, Nairobi City County
Citation
Nekesa, T., & Wanjira, J. (2020). Effect of Employee Involvement on Customer Service Delivery of Restaurants in Nairobi Kenya. International Journal of Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2(3), 49-65. https://doi.org/10.35942/jbmed.v2i3.134