英文摘要 |
To address the increasing demand of physical fitness and the competition of fitness industry in Taiwan, there is a need for many fitness clubs to implement internal marketing practices to increase good service quality and customer satisfaction for differentiating themselves from others. As fitness clubs are labor intensive industry and employees play a crucial role in service delivery processes, internal marketing functions as a culture change mechanism that aims to satisfy the needs of both internal and external customers. The aim of this paper is to understand how internal marketing practices influence fitness club employees' attitudes and behaviors, and provide strategies for promoting employees' service orientation, subjective well-being of individual employees and job satisfaction. We start by reviewing the characteristics of the services offered by fitness club, the application of internal marketing in fitness clubs, and various perspectives regarding how to promote employees' service orientation, subjective well-being and job satisfaction. The strategies include building service-oriented organizational culture, HR practices and management initiative supports, creating a work climate that motivates staffs and performance, effective internal communication, satisfying the hierarchy of needs for employees, increasing organizational identification, enhancing employees' internal and external job satisfaction. Fitness clubs need to conduct internal marketing practices effectively to help motivate employees to meet goals, gain their service orientation, subjective well-being and job satisfaction. |