The Effects of Market Orientation

THE EFFECTS OF MARKET ORIENTATION

ON THE SERVICE QUALITY OF PRIVATE BANKING INDUSTRY

IN PALEMBANG

by:

Diah Natalisa

Isnurhadi

Herianto Puspowarsito

David PE Saerang

Corresponding email: diah_natalisa@yahoo.com

Phone: 62 8127124837

Faculty of Economics, University of Sriwijaya, Palembang, Indonesia

In response to the world’s more competitive banking industry, private banks in Palembang focus more on professionalism, customers’ satisfaction, increased teamwork, and market-oriented performance. To implement those four principles, the management team of these private banks are committed to run their banking activities on good governance, to comply with government regulations, to improve their human resources and to develop more valuable products and services that are intended to satisfy customers’ needs. This study is aimed toward identifying how private banks in Palembang set the stages of their market orientation, which stage was dominant, and how this market orientation influenced the quality of their services. A multiple regression analysis was applied in this research. Its dependent variable was service quality (Y) and the independent variable was market orientation; (X) which was further divided in three dimensions: intelligent generation (X1), intelligent dissemination (X2), and responsiveness (X3). The research results show that there is a significant influence of the three independent variables on the service quality provided by the private banks in Palembang.   The dominant dimension of the market orientation was responsiveness.

Keywords:

      Market Orientation

      Service Quality

      Private Banking Industry.

1. INTRODUCTION

      In the global economy, a bank plays a very crucial role. Banks emerge as an institution that is vital in financial traffic in modern economy specifically in distributing and allocating financial resources in a society. Banks function as financial intermediary, intermediating...