<p>In the past years the competition in the restaurant trade in Umeå is increasing. There is more choice for the customers and thereby the restaurants have to work harder to attract customers. One way is to Market themselves differently.</p><p>In this research we are studying one way of diversifying Service Marketing, namely through people. Especially in the restaurant sector the frontline employee is an essential part of the service. We argue that by improving the Internal Marketing a business can ensure, through Human Resource Management, to have a service-minded and customer-oriented workforce, motivated to deliver Service Quality. Further, by strengthening the Internal Branding the workforce will work in unity with the internal and external brand, being more willing and committed to deliver high quality services. We aim to find that through having well trained frontline employees the customer will know a difference and have a better experience when visiting the restaurant.</p><p>Three restaurants in the Umeå market have been chosen for our study. To collect data from these restaurants we have conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews. The contributions of this study were that training, and especially learning by doing and experience, is crucial in learning ones job according to the respondents. Also that having a good balance between having standard procedures and employee empowerment could improve the Service Quality through reliability in the service delivery. Last but not least, a concept of Reciprocal Commitment was developed showing the importance of a business investing in the employee, training being part of that investment, to get the employee to invest his/her time and commitment in the business.</p><p>Through this study we have developed a model showing the influence and benefits of training in the selected restaurants. We have realised that training is not the only way, but plays an important role in Marketing through people.</p>

<p>Abstract</p><p>Date 12th June, 2008</p><p>Course Name Master Thesis EFO 705</p><p>Program MIMA‐International Marketing</p><p>Group Satu Kristiina Castren 821118‐P147</p><p>Kaleem Ullah Muhammad 801202‐P310</p><p>Tutor Tobias Eltebrandt</p><p>Title</p><p>What should be done to improve employee motivation at Lammin Osuuspankki branches in Lahti?</p><p>Problem Statement</p><p>What should be done to improve the motivation of employees by the</p><p>management at the branches of Lammin Osuuspankki in Lahti?</p><p>Purpose of the Research</p><p>The purpose of the research is to study internal marketing at Lammin</p><p>Osuuspankki Lahti branches focusing on employee motivation. This research is designed for the management of Lammin Osuuspankki so that they can encourage the employees to work in an effective way. The authors will find the factors that are effecting the motivation of employees at the branches and need further improvement to increase the motivation of the employees. The research aim is to improve the employee motivation at the branches through our suggestions.</p><p>Methodology</p><p>For this research, the authors have used primary and secondary data to collect the information needed. The primary data was collected by qualitative and quantitative methods. The quantitative data was conducted by a survey, which was based on a theoretical model, the dynamic Triangle of motivation and the adapted job characteristic model. The qualitative primary data was gathered by two interviews. The secondary data was collected mainly from books, online databases and articles.</p><p>Conceptual Framework</p><p>The conceptual framework includes two models: The Dynamic triangle of</p><p>Motivation and the modified Job Characteristic Model. The dynamic Triangle of Motivation looks at the values and attitudes and the needs that influence motivation for employees at a learning organization. The Job characteristic Model is a framework for studying the impact of job characteristics on job satisfaction and job outcomes.</p><p>Conclusions</p><p>The conclusions revealed the different preferences and importance of the motivational factors to the employees at Hämeenkatu and Paavola bank branches. The authors concluded all the motivational factors that require improvement to increase the motivation of employees at Hämeenkatu and Paavola branches. In short, other than cultural harmony and communication between co‐workers inside social dimensions all the other factors required improvement to improve the motivation of the employees.</p>

<p>Aim: The aim of the study is to analyze what product mix Fujitsu Services AB should focus on in the future. That is if they should focus on service and consulting, or hardware products, or a mix of them both? The following sub-questions have been used to answer the research question.What is the optimal mix between consulting and services, and hardware and where does Fujitsu create the most value? Where is the potential for the future? Where can Fujitsu Services AB generate the most growth? How superior is the current foundation, that the company is building its strategies on and what do they need to add? What are their capabilities and how can they best be explored?</p><p>Method: This study is a qualitative study with focus on Fujitsu Services AB where data has been collected through interviews with the leadership and management of the company with focus on how the company should carry on its business practices in the future.</p><p>Result and conclusions: The result from the study is that Fujitsu Services AB should keep a mix between the services, consulting and hardware. I have also come to the conclusion that they can improve in other areas such as its internal communication.</p><p>Suggestion for future research: Study of the change that the acquisition of Mandator will mean for Fujitsu Services AB</p><p>Contribution of the thesis: Give an inside look at a high-technology company that is going through changes and is trying to establish its brand and grow in a local and international market</p>

<p>Titel: Intern Marknadsföring och Kundrelationer</p><p>– hur förhåller sig dessa till varandra?</p><p>Sökord: Intern marknadsföring, kundrelationer, relationsmarknadsföring</p><p>Problem: Hur förhåller sig ett företags interna marknadsföring till dess kundrelationer? samt: Hur förhåller sig företagets kundrelationer till dess interna marknadsföring?</p><p>Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att förstå och förklara hur företaget Leine & Linde AB:s interna marknadsföring samt deras kundrelationer förhåller sig till varandra.</p><p>Metod: Uppsatsen bygger på teori kring intern marknadsföring och kundrelationer samt en kvalitativ fallstudie med undersökning på ett svenskt företag, Leine & Linde AB.</p><p>Slutsats: Slutsatserna från studien visar att den interna marknadsföringen och kundrelationerna förhåller sig till varandra genom påverkan mellan olika faktorer för de olika ämnesområdena. Förhållandet kan även ses börja från kundrelationerna, då fallföretaget Leine & Linde inte gjorde något utan ett kundbehov.</p> / <p>Title: Internal Marketing and Customer Relations</p><p>- How do they relate to each other?</p><p>Words for search: Internal marketing, customer relations, relationship marketing</p><p>Problem: How does a company’s internal marketing relate to their customer relations? and: How does the company’s customer relations relate to their internal marketing?</p><p>Purpose: The purpose with this thesis is to understand and explain how the internal marketing and the customer relations in the company Leine & Linde AB relate to each other.</p><p>Method: This thesis is built on theories about internal marketing and customer relations together with a qualitative casestudy with an examination with interviews at a Swedish company, Leine & Linde AB.</p><p>Findings: The findings from this thesis shows that the internal marketing and the customer relations relate to each other through how the different factors in the subjects effect each other. The relation between internal marketing and customer relations begins from the customer relations, seen to that the case company Leine & Linde did not do anything without a need from the customers.</p>

<p><strong>Background: </strong>The hotel market has become undiversified and the competition has increased rapidly. At the same time the environment aspects has been given higher priority and the trend continues to extend. A green marketing strategi has proven profitable if the company achieve a high credibility.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Problem definition: </strong>What factors are important for hotel companies to attain long term business survival trough a green marketing strategy?</p><p><strong>Purpose:</strong> The purpose with this paper is to, trough a case study of Scandic Hotels analyze and find the relationship between trustworthy environmental work and internal factors.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study is based on both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The qualitative data has been gathered through interviews with five different levels of personel, both management and employee, within the company. The quantitative data has been gathered through a customer survey.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Scandic Hotels have a well defined and comprehensible internal marketing. The company integrate the enviromental aspect in to all levels of the organisation and have established a high credibility. The combination of high involved customers and a well defined internal marketing as a strategy results in long term survival for Scandic Hotels.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>On the very competitive and undiversified hotel market a green profile could be crucial for a long term survival. The factors that are important when trying to establish a green profile is to make sure that the internal marketing is integrated with both employees and mangement. A well working internal marketing insures that all communications are interaktive, the company allows new knowledge to remain in the organisation and the management ensures the motivation of the employees by listening to their suggestions and informing them of the resluts of the green work.</p><p> </p>

<p>The companies of today figures on a hardly competitive market. This makes it necessary for the company to find new way to create competition advantages. Since it is no longer enough to compete with the technical quality of the product the companies are forced to also enhance the functional quality. To accomplish this it becomes necessary for producing companies to be customer oriented. A customer oriented company culture can be reached with the help of internal marketing in which different activities work to inform and teach the employees about the company strategy and also about their own role as part-time marketers.</p><p>This thesis examines Electrolux, a company which is currently striving to develop a customer oriented company culture. Electrolux works with “Consuming Innovation Program” which is a project that acts to implement a new process, “Product Management Flow”, in the company. This thesis aim at examine how Electrolux has used the activities of internal marketing to develop a customer oriented company culture.</p><p>The thesis concludes that Electrolux successfully has started the implementation of the desired customer oriented company culture and the implementation has partly succeeded. There are although still some items of the internal marketing that needs to bee improved to enable an optimized result.</p> / <p>Dagens företag verkar på en marknad med hård konkurrens där det blir nödvändigt att finna nya sätt att skapa konkurrensfördelar. Då det inte längre är tillräckligt att konkurrera med produktens tekniska kvalité tvingas de producerande företagen till att även förbättra den funktionella kvalitén. För detta krävs det att de producerande företagen blir kundorienterade. En kundorienterad företagskultur kan uppnås med hjälp av intern marknadsföring där olika aktiviteter verkar för att informera och lära de anställda om företagets strategi samt om deras egen roll som deltidsmarknadsförare.</p><p>I denna uppsats undersöks Electrolux, ett företag som idag genomgår en förändring mot en kundorienterad företagskultur. Electrolux arbetar med ”Consuming Innovation Program” vilket är ett projekt som verkar för att implementera en ny process, ”Product Management Flow”, i företaget. Uppsatsen syftar till att ta reda på hur Electrolux använder sig av den interna marknadsföringens aktiviteter för att uppnå en kundorienterad kultur i företaget.</p><p>Uppsatsen kommer fram till att Electrolux framgångsrikt har startat implementeringen av den önskade kundorienterade företagskulturen och även till viss del lyckats med detta. Det finns dock vissa punkter i den interna marknadsföringen som bör förbättras för att ett optimalt resultat ska kunna uppnås.</p>

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to increase the understanding of the link between internal marketing and customer relationship management by conducting a case study of one Nordea call center. Background: Keeping existing customers is less expensive than acquiring new ones. Nowadays, up to sixty percent of marketing budgets are being dedicated towards retaining customers. So forth customer relationship manage-ment is slowly beginning to penetrate the banking industry as sustaina-ble relationships between organizations and their customers are becom-ing more evident. Theory: The case study is based on an internal marketing model by Bansal et al. (2001) which shows how managers can influence the job satisfaction of their employees through six dimensions. Based on the previously men-tioned model, customer relationship management theory and the service marketing triangle by Kotler et al. (2002), the researchers present their our own model, at the end of the theoretical section, which seeks to en-hance the understanding of the link between internal marketing and cus-tomer relationship management. Method: Since there was lacking theoretical evidence in how to link internal marketing to customer relationship management, the study was of exploratory nature. Qualitative data was collected by conducting two fo-cus groups (independently of each other) at one Nordea call center. The first focus group was composed of five managers and the second focus group of three frontline employees. Conclusion: Nordea has been used as an example to illustrate that customer relation-ship management, such as using sales opportunities to strengthen rela-tionships with customers, is dependent on managers‟ ability to “sell” the organization‟s customer relationship management ideas to its front-line employees. Moreover managers have the ability through the six dimensions of internal marketing to affect job satisfaction which in turn will determine how frontline employees make use of the sales opportu-nities provided by Nordea‟s content management system (CMS).

Abstract Date 12th June, 2008 Course Name Master Thesis EFO 705 Program MIMA‐International Marketing Group Satu Kristiina Castren 821118‐P147 Kaleem Ullah Muhammad 801202‐P310 Tutor Tobias Eltebrandt Title What should be done to improve employee motivation at Lammin Osuuspankki branches in Lahti? Problem Statement What should be done to improve the motivation of employees by the management at the branches of Lammin Osuuspankki in Lahti? Purpose of the Research The purpose of the research is to study internal marketing at Lammin Osuuspankki Lahti branches focusing on employee motivation. This research is designed for the management of Lammin Osuuspankki so that they can encourage the employees to work in an effective way. The authors will find the factors that are effecting the motivation of employees at the branches and need further improvement to increase the motivation of the employees. The research aim is to improve the employee motivation at the branches through our suggestions. Methodology For this research, the authors have used primary and secondary data to collect the information needed. The primary data was collected by qualitative and quantitative methods. The quantitative data was conducted by a survey, which was based on a theoretical model, the dynamic Triangle of motivation and the adapted job characteristic model. The qualitative primary data was gathered by two interviews. The secondary data was collected mainly from books, online databases and articles. Conceptual Framework The conceptual framework includes two models: The Dynamic triangle of Motivation and the modified Job Characteristic Model. The dynamic Triangle of Motivation looks at the values and attitudes and the needs that influence motivation for employees at a learning organization. The Job characteristic Model is a framework for studying the impact of job characteristics on job satisfaction and job outcomes. Conclusions The conclusions revealed the different preferences and importance of the motivational factors to the employees at Hämeenkatu and Paavola bank branches. The authors concluded all the motivational factors that require improvement to increase the motivation of employees at Hämeenkatu and Paavola branches. In short, other than cultural harmony and communication between co‐workers inside social dimensions all the other factors required improvement to improve the motivation of the employees.

The companies of today figures on a hardly competitive market. This makes it necessary for the company to find new way to create competition advantages. Since it is no longer enough to compete with the technical quality of the product the companies are forced to also enhance the functional quality. To accomplish this it becomes necessary for producing companies to be customer oriented. A customer oriented company culture can be reached with the help of internal marketing in which different activities work to inform and teach the employees about the company strategy and also about their own role as part-time marketers. This thesis examines Electrolux, a company which is currently striving to develop a customer oriented company culture. Electrolux works with “Consuming Innovation Program” which is a project that acts to implement a new process, “Product Management Flow”, in the company. This thesis aim at examine how Electrolux has used the activities of internal marketing to develop a customer oriented company culture. The thesis concludes that Electrolux successfully has started the implementation of the desired customer oriented company culture and the implementation has partly succeeded. There are although still some items of the internal marketing that needs to bee improved to enable an optimized result. / Dagens företag verkar på en marknad med hård konkurrens där det blir nödvändigt att finna nya sätt att skapa konkurrensfördelar. Då det inte längre är tillräckligt att konkurrera med produktens tekniska kvalité tvingas de producerande företagen till att även förbättra den funktionella kvalitén. För detta krävs det att de producerande företagen blir kundorienterade. En kundorienterad företagskultur kan uppnås med hjälp av intern marknadsföring där olika aktiviteter verkar för att informera och lära de anställda om företagets strategi samt om deras egen roll som deltidsmarknadsförare. I denna uppsats undersöks Electrolux, ett företag som idag genomgår en förändring mot en kundorienterad företagskultur. Electrolux arbetar med ”Consuming Innovation Program” vilket är ett projekt som verkar för att implementera en ny process, ”Product Management Flow”, i företaget. Uppsatsen syftar till att ta reda på hur Electrolux använder sig av den interna marknadsföringens aktiviteter för att uppnå en kundorienterad kultur i företaget. Uppsatsen kommer fram till att Electrolux framgångsrikt har startat implementeringen av den önskade kundorienterade företagskulturen och även till viss del lyckats med detta. Det finns dock vissa punkter i den interna marknadsföringen som bör förbättras för att ett optimalt resultat ska kunna uppnås.

Titel: Intern Marknadsföring och Kundrelationer – hur förhåller sig dessa till varandra? Sökord: Intern marknadsföring, kundrelationer, relationsmarknadsföring Problem: Hur förhåller sig ett företags interna marknadsföring till dess kundrelationer? samt: Hur förhåller sig företagets kundrelationer till dess interna marknadsföring? Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att förstå och förklara hur företaget Leine &amp; Linde AB:s interna marknadsföring samt deras kundrelationer förhåller sig till varandra. Metod: Uppsatsen bygger på teori kring intern marknadsföring och kundrelationer samt en kvalitativ fallstudie med undersökning på ett svenskt företag, Leine &amp; Linde AB. Slutsats: Slutsatserna från studien visar att den interna marknadsföringen och kundrelationerna förhåller sig till varandra genom påverkan mellan olika faktorer för de olika ämnesområdena. Förhållandet kan även ses börja från kundrelationerna, då fallföretaget Leine &amp; Linde inte gjorde något utan ett kundbehov. / Title: Internal Marketing and Customer Relations - How do they relate to each other? Words for search: Internal marketing, customer relations, relationship marketing Problem: How does a company’s internal marketing relate to their customer relations? and: How does the company’s customer relations relate to their internal marketing? Purpose: The purpose with this thesis is to understand and explain how the internal marketing and the customer relations in the company Leine &amp; Linde AB relate to each other. Method: This thesis is built on theories about internal marketing and customer relations together with a qualitative casestudy with an examination with interviews at a Swedish company, Leine &amp; Linde AB. Findings: The findings from this thesis shows that the internal marketing and the customer relations relate to each other through how the different factors in the subjects effect each other. The relation between internal marketing and customer relations begins from the customer relations, seen to that the case company Leine &amp; Linde did not do anything without a need from the customers.