The focus of this study is the assessment of the performance of the Nigerian retail banks on pay satisfaction through an examination of the sector's pay satisfaction levels. This has formed the basis of the literature review which focuses on pay, pay satisfaction determinants and gender inequality in the distribution of organisational wealth. Literature such as Adam's equity theory, Maslow's needs theory and Vroom's expectancy theory was reviewed. The work adjustment, organisational justice and Herzberg's dual-factor theories were also reviewed in order to form an opinion on what could determine pay satisfaction amongst the Nigerian retail banking sector's employees. The literature review findings conclude that pay satisfaction determinants could be based on the outcome of individual comparisons or referent others, and comparison between what they each earn and what they believe they each are worth to their respective organisations. The aims of this research are (a) to describe and analyse pay satisfaction levels amongst retail bank employees in Nigeria, (b) to identify whether or not pay satisfaction levels of this sector's employees are gendered, and (c) to establish whether or not male workers are more satisfied with their pay than female employees. The objectives are (a) to empirically explore their pay level satisfaction, (b) to test for similarities and differences in their pay satisfaction levels, and (c) to compare the pay satisfaction levels for any significant differences. The research was conducted using both primary and secondary methods with the aid of 600 self-delivered questionnaires within ten selected retail banking organisations based in Lagos and Abuja. The outcomes suggest low satisfaction levels with pay amongst the sector's employees, as just 60% of the 303 usable questionnaires from the 326 who responded indicated satisfaction with their pay. This indicates that male workers were more satisfied with their pay than their female counterparts. However, no significant variations in their satisfaction levels were noted. Finally, this study recommends that Nigerian retail banks implement equitable pay structures that recognise individual efforts whatever their gender. These banks should also establish equity and justice in the distribution of other wealth, and in their policy, process and administrative procedures rather than these being based on personality or culture.

Credit is seen in Economic Literature as one of development drivers, promoting investment, smoothing consumption, allowing for risk sharing and the use of new production technologies. Our objective is to analyze if the physical presence of banks through bank branches is still relevant to develop local credit markets in Brazil. Since there are unobservable market characteristics that could drive both credit and bank entry, the relation between credit and branches may suffer from endogeneity. Therefore, the simple regression of credit on bank branches would be biased. To try to deal with this endogeneity, we employ an IO framework to model firm entry and use the estimated result as an instrument for observed bank branches. We find that estimations using expected values or predicted probabilities of bank branches show little to no effect of bank branches on credit. The same result is achieved when using a second IO model as an additional analysiss / A Literatura Econômica de desenvolvimento aponta o crédito como um dos determinantes do desenvolvimento econômico, que promove investimentos, suavização do consumo, mitigação do risco e uso de novas tecnologias de produção. O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em analisar se a presença física de bancos por meio da agência bancária ainda é relevante para o desenvolvimento de mercados locais de crédito no Brasil. A relação entre crédito e agências bancárias pode sofrer de endogeneidade, uma vez que existem características de mercado não-observáveis que podem afetar tanto crédito quanto a entrada de bancos nos mercados. Para tratar esta endogeneidade, se propõe o uso de um framework de OI para modelar a decisão de entrada de firmas. A partir destes modelos, utiliza-se o resultado previsto como instrumento para as agências bancárias observadas. O resultado encontrado é de que, ao utilizar o valor esperado de agências ou a probabilidade estimada de haver agência, o impacto de agência em crédito se reduz significativamente e é nulo na maioria das especificações e para a maior parte dos anos da amostra. O uso de um segundo modelo de OI como teste secundário teve o mesmo resultado

Credit is seen in Economic Literature as one of development drivers, promoting investment, smoothing consumption, allowing for risk sharing and the use of new production technologies. Our objective is to analyze if the physical presence of banks through bank branches is still relevant to develop local credit markets in Brazil. Since there are unobservable market characteristics that could drive both credit and bank entry, the relation between credit and branches may suffer from endogeneity. Therefore, the simple regression of credit on bank branches would be biased. To try to deal with this endogeneity, we employ an IO framework to model firm entry and use the estimated result as an instrument for observed bank branches. We find that estimations using expected values or predicted probabilities of bank branches show little to no effect of bank branches on credit. The same result is achieved when using a second IO model as an additional analysiss / A Literatura Econômica de desenvolvimento aponta o crédito como um dos determinantes do desenvolvimento econômico, que promove investimentos, suavização do consumo, mitigação do risco e uso de novas tecnologias de produção. O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em analisar se a presença física de bancos por meio da agência bancária ainda é relevante para o desenvolvimento de mercados locais de crédito no Brasil. A relação entre crédito e agências bancárias pode sofrer de endogeneidade, uma vez que existem características de mercado não-observáveis que podem afetar tanto crédito quanto a entrada de bancos nos mercados. Para tratar esta endogeneidade, se propõe o uso de um framework de OI para modelar a decisão de entrada de firmas. A partir destes modelos, utiliza-se o resultado previsto como instrumento para as agências bancárias observadas. O resultado encontrado é de que, ao utilizar o valor esperado de agências ou a probabilidade estimada de haver agência, o impacto de agência em crédito se reduz significativamente e é nulo na maioria das especificações e para a maior parte dos anos da amostra. O uso de um segundo modelo de OI como teste secundário teve o mesmo resultado

Submitted by William Justo Figueiro (williamjf) on 2015-06-25T22:45:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 36.pdf: 722185 bytes, checksum: bb2b2ac90091605c7e2f999df9a7f628 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-25T22:45:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 36.pdf: 722185 bytes, checksum: bb2b2ac90091605c7e2f999df9a7f628 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este estudo foi realizado num dos mercados que apresenta uma das maiores competitividades em escala mundial, que é o setor bancário. Esta pesquisa objetivou analisar os fatores mais associados ao desempenho de gestores de relacionamento em agências bancárias de varejo. A empresa onde a pesquisa foi aplicada é uma das três maiores instituições financeiras do Brasil, empresa de economia mista com mais de 100 mil funcionários e 5 mil agências de varejo. O público pesquisado foi de gestores de micro e pequenas empresas; há outros segmentos do varejo que não foram explorados (pessoa física, rural, empresas de médio e grande porte). Para isso, elencaram-se fatores presentes e recorrentes na literatura e investigou-se a influência destes sobre a lucratividade, inadimplência e desempenho atitudinal dos gestores de relacionamento do varejo bancário. Os fatores analisados foram: conflitos de interesse, uso do empowerment, concessões, redução da complexidade, conservadorismo, relacionamento, fazer certo da primeira vez e competência, bem como migração para serviços automatizados. Foi realizado um survey envolvendo 291 gestores de relacionamento dedicados ao atendimento de micro e pequenas empresas. Os achados revelaram uma relação representativa de “fazer certo da primeira vez e competência”, “relacionamento” e “conservadorismo” com o aumento do desempenho atitudinal. “Fazer certo da primeira vez e competência”, e “relacionamento” também tiveram relação com a redução da inadimplência. “Concessões” também apresentaram relação negativa com a inadimplência. Os demais constructos analisados (conflitos de interesse, uso do empowerment, redução da complexidade e migração para serviços automatizados) não demonstraram relação com o desempenho. O presente estudo foi realizado em empresa de economia mista. Outros estudos são necessários para verificar se os mesmos resultados ocorrem nas demais instituições financeiras. / This study was conducted in one of the world´s highest competitive market, which is the banking sector. More specifically aimed to examine ways to increase the performance of retail banking units, which constitute the largest volume of business in this sector. Factors were listed, based in the literature, and investigate the influence on profitability, reduction of nonpayment and attitudinal performance of relationship managers in the retail banking. The constructs analyzed were: conflicts of interest, use of empowerment, concessions, reduced complexity, conservatism, relationship, got it right the first time and competence, and migration to automated services. A Survey was conducted with 291 relationship´s managers dedicating to serving micro and small business in one of the three largest financial institutions in Brazil. The findings revealed a representative relation of "got it right the first time and competence", "relationship" and "conservatism" with increased performance attitudinal. "Got it right the first time and competence," and "relationship" were also related to the reduction of non-payments. "Concessions" also showed negative relation with non-payment. The other constructs analyzed (conflicts of interest, use of empowerment, reducing complexity and migration to automated services) showed no relation with performance. The present study was conducted in a mixed company. Further studies are needed to see if the same results occur in other financial institutions.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase the knowledge about technology based services affection of the ability of retail banks to build customer based brand equity among students. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual model has been developed from theories regarding customer based brand equity, switching barriers and choice criteria. Based on this conceptual model, seven in depth interviews including several brand elicitation techniques were conducted. Findings – The findings show that students perceive the target banks to be rather similar, especially regarding technologies. In addition, the students are satisfied with their bank, however; the technology based services have difficulties in creating true customer based brand equity. Behind this difficulties are the special character of financial service combined with the student role. Together, these results suggest that the banks need to do something besides the actual services in order to build customer based brand equity and keep the customers for a long term relationship. These strategies must be developed and implemented carefully in order to keep the current image of credibility. Research limitations/implications – The paper has not included comprehensive eliciting techniques and this must be taken into account when reflecting about unconscious brand associations.  Practical implications – The findings include good insights and advices that bank managers can use to create meaningful differentiations in the future and attract and keep students as customers for a long time.  Originality/value - The paper combines customer based brand equity with switching barriers, which give valuable insights to both banks and researchers. Moreover, the time period of the study related to the technological innovation provides the brand equity research in the financial sector with updated knowledge.

The thesis focuses on the batch processing of bank (retail bank) client data for SOLUS. The main goal of the thesis is to create a batch process that will generate files (monthly report) about clients of one of the bank companies operating in the Czech market (retail banks), according to requirements pre-defined by SOLUS. This will be achieved by analyzing the requirements, designing the pilot solution, and by creating and implementing the batch process for SOLUS. The main contribution of this thesis is a working BI process which will store the data in the required format to the data warehouse. By implementing this process the retail bank can use the data from the register that have been saved to this place by other member organizations which participate in creating SOLUS. The data analysis from the registry can help the retail banks to get detailed information about clients applying for products of the respective bank and will facilitate the decision making during the approval process. The solution of batch report generation for SOLUS has been created by using the tools MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio, MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Development Studio, and MS Excel 2010. In this project the data from internal databases of retail bank are analyzed. In order to comply with the rules for information security and data sensitivity, it is not possible to use a large amount of information from internal databases for the purposes of this thesis, but it is possible to clearly demonstrate the functioning of the whole process.

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Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T21:00:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Andre Alvares Leite Bucione - Turma 2006.pdf.jpg: 2508 bytes, checksum: a2f65c5af5b23551a4dc0fe1c3abcbd3 (MD5) Andre Alvares Leite Bucione - Turma 2006.pdf.txt: 52096 bytes, checksum: 449900717082efece5863c8e2fe88909 (MD5) license.txt: 4712 bytes, checksum: 4dea6f7333914d9740702a2deb2db217 (MD5) Andre Alvares Leite Bucione - Turma 2006.pdf: 168087 bytes, checksum: a635f49727d9a7e37d08060c75001c86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-11T00:00:00Z / Top management from retail bank industry (PRINCIPAL) needs to delegate authority to lower level managers (AGENTS) under the existence of conflicting interests, asymmetric information and limited monitoring. A system of performance targets and incentives is adopted in order to induct those agents into principal’s interests. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the existence of a casual relationship between the so called “contract of guaranteed variable wage” and the performance of the lower level managers. It means, to investigate how the appliances of this implicit contract, which promote a substantial change in the direct incentive scheme, affect the performance delivered by those agents. We analyze, econometrically, data from jan.2007 to jun.2009 got from one of the largest Brazilian retail bank through an estimator of fixed effects for an unbalanced panel data. The results indicate that the agents subject to the contract of guaranteed variable wage have delivered an inferior performance compared to the agents subject to variable payment. We conclude, therefore, that problem of moral hazard can be observed on the behavior of the agents subject to this contract. / A alta gerência do banco de varejo (PRINCIPAL) necessita delegar autoridade a gerentes de níveis inferiores (AGENTES) sob a existência de interesses conflitantes, informações assimétricas e a impossibilidade de monitoração completa. Um sistema de metas e incentivos é adotado de modo a induzir estes agentes na direção dos interesses do principal. O objetivo deste trabalho é avaliar a relação causal existente entre o chamado 'contrato de salário variável garantido' e o desempenho dos agentes. Isto é, investigar de que forma a aplicação deste contrato implícito, que promove uma substancial mudança no sistema de incentivos diretos, afeta o desempenho destes agentes. Analisamos econometricamente dados de jan.2007 a jun.2009 obtidos junto a um grande banco de varejo nacional através de um estimador de efeitos fixos para um painel de dados não balanceado. Os resultados indicam que os agentes sujeitos ao contrato de salário variável garantido têm um desempenho inferior aos agentes sujeitos a remuneração variável. Concluímos que não podemos descartar existência do problema de risco moral no comportamento dos agentes sujeitos a este contrato.