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O Marketing nas Instituições Particulares de Solidariedade Social:

O Terceiro Sector surge para colmatar as necessidades que o Estado não consegue dar resposta e, consequentemente melhorar a qualidade de vida dos mais vulneráveis. As Instituições Particulares de Solidariedade Social (IPSS), objeto de estudo desta dissertação, constituem uma parte das organizações sem fins lucrativos do Terceiro Sector. Neste sentido, importa ressalvar que na atualidade assistimos ao crescimento de organizações sem fins lucrativos, relacionado com a diminuição de apoios estatais aos mais vulneráveis, que tem colocado desafios às organizações sem fins lucrativos, nomeadamente às IPSS, que são confrontadas com o problema da sustentabilidade. Assim, torna-se imperativo que as IPSS assumam técnicas de gestão do sector lucrativo, nomeadamente, ferramentas de marketing, que poderão constituir uma mais-valia para a sustentabilidade da instituição. Nesta linha de pensamento, a investigação tem como objetivo percecionar a perspetiva dos diretores técnicos das IPSS do concelho de Barcelos sobre a importância do marketing e da existência de um plano de marketing na sua organização, de modo a contribuir para um melhor desempenho da instituição na sociedade. Deste modo, para responder aos objetivos estabelecidos realizou-se um estudo descritivo de tipo qualitativo, tendo sido utilizado como instrumento de recolha de dados a entrevista semi-estruturada. Dos principais resultados obtidos destaca-se que, apesar de reconhecido por parte dos diretores técnicos o contributo da utilização do marketing para as IPSS estudadas e existência da necessidade por parte dos mesmos em investir na formação nesta área, verifica-se a inexistência de um plano de marketing e a utilização de estratégias de marketing de forma intuitiva. De acordo com os resultados obtidos é imperativo que as direções técnicas e presidentes das IPSS repensem sobre a comunicação da missão organizacional, se estão a rentabilizar os serviços e a determinar qual o melhor uso dos recursos para atingir os objetivos institucionais.

Insights into the Indian call centre industry:can internal marketing help tackle high employee turnover?

Purpose – Increasing turnover of frontline staff in call centres is detrimental to the delivery of quality service to customers. This paper aims to present the context for the rapid growth of the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector in India, and to address a critical issue faced by call centre organisations in this sector – the high employee turnover. Design/methodology/approach – Following a triangulation approach, two separate empirical investigations are conducted to examine various aspects of high labour turnover rates in the call centre sector in India. Study one examines the research issue via 51 in-depth interviews in as many units. Study two reports results from a questionnaire survey with 204 frontline agents across 11 call centres regarding employee turnover. Findings – This research reveals a range of reasons – from monotonous work, stressful work environment, adverse working conditions, lack of career development opportunities; to better job opportunities elsewhere, which emerge as the key causes of increasing attrition rates in the Indian call centre industry. Research limitations/implications – The research suggests that there are several issues that need to be handled carefully by management of call centres in India to overcome the problem of increasing employee turnover, and that this also demands support from the Indian government. Originality/value – The contributions of this study untangle the issues underlying a key problem in the call centre industry, i.e. employee turnover in the Indian call centre industry context. Adopting an internal marketing approach, it provides useful information for both academics and practitioners and suggests internal marketing interventions, and avenues for future research to combat the problem of employee turnover.

Does internal marketing improve service quality in call centres?

Although internal marketing has been conceptually argued to improve service quality, empirical evidence in this respect has been limited. This research investigates the relationship between rewards, which are a key component of internal marketing paradigm, and service quality of frontline employees in banking call centres. In this context, the authors develop hypotheses with the help of literature review, and empirically examine the effects of various extrinsic and intrinsic rewards on service quality. The results indicate that intrinsic rewards have greater effect on service quality than extrinsic rewards, which offer managerial implications and directions for future research.

HRM systems, internal marketing and performance in Indian call centres:full research report ESRC end of award report, RES-000-22-1876

Considering the rapid growth of call centres (CCs) in India, its implications for businesses in the UK and a scarcity of research on human resource management (HRM) related issues in Indian CCs, this research has two main aims. First, to highlight the nature of HRM systems relevant to Indian call centres. Second, to understand the significance of internal marketing (IM) in influencing the frontline employees’ job-related attitudes and performance. Rewards being an important component of IM, the relationships between different types of rewards as part of an IM strategy, attitudes and performance of employees in Indian CCs will also be examined. Further, the research will investigate which type of commitment mediates the link between rewards and performance and why. The data collection will be via two phases. The first phase would involve a series of in-depth interviews with both the managers and employees to understand the functioning of CCs, and development of suitable HRM systems for the Indian context. The second phase would involve data collection through questionnaires distributed to the frontline employees and supervisors to examine the relationships among IM, employee attitudes and performance. Such an investigation is expected to contribute to development of better theory and practice.