Effect of Employee Involvement on Customer Service Delivery of Restaurants in Nairobi Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorNekesa, Tabitha Brenda
dc.contributor.authorWanjira, Jane
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-26T08:48:17Z
dc.date.available2020-10-26T08:48:17Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionA Paper Published in International Journal of Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovationen_US
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNekesa, 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.v2i3.134en_US
dc.identifier.issn2707-8027
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/20654
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIJCABen_US
dc.subjectEmployee Trainingen_US
dc.subjectLeadershipen_US
dc.subjectEmployee Involvementen_US
dc.subjectIncentivesen_US
dc.subjectSmall and Medium Size Restaurantsen_US
dc.subjectNairobi City Countyen_US
dc.titleEffect of Employee Involvement on Customer Service Delivery of Restaurants in Nairobi Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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