Asian Journal of Research in Banking and Finance
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 8

Review of Effects of Relationship Marketing on Customer Satisfaction of Saman Bank in Mazandaran Province

  • Author:
  • Hamed Mohammadi Shahroodia,1, Sayed Mohammad Bagherib, G. Sayed Jaber Hosseinic
  • Total Page Count: 15
  • Page Number: 15 to 29

aIslamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, MA of Business Management, Babol, Iran

bPayam nor university, Department of Business Management, Babol, Iran

cIslamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, MA of Business Management, Babol, Iran

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Online published on 6 August, 2014.

Abstract

Organizations with an understanding of the importance of customer satisfaction are gradually moving away from the traditional marketing toward relationship marketing. Considering the importance of this approach in today's organizations, this article has investigated the relation of Relationship marketing fundamentals such as trust, commitment, communication, conflict management and competence with customer satisfaction about banking services. This article is a descriptive study which is done with correlation method of multivariate regression type and its statistical population is a 160 people set of Saman Bank customers in Mazandaran Province. Data collecting tool of this study is questionnaire and for the hypotheses test, each of the tests in SPSS and AMOS software was used, including: linear regression, Friedmann, correlation, binomial test, and confirmatory factor analysis (SEM). The results show that in the order of priority, variables of commitment (0.439), trust (0.278), communication (0.26), and competence (0.082), have the greatest impact on the satisfaction variable, but conflict management doesn't has meaningful relationship with satisfaction.

Keywords

Relationship marketing, trust, commitment, conflict management, communication, competence, satisfaction