Internal Relationship Management

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Internal Relationship Management: Linking Human Resources to Marketing Performance shows how businesses can develop and maintain positive interactions between managers and employees. This book provides cutting-edge research on the management of internal customers (i.e., employees) that offers practical suggestions to improve internal service, employee performance, and—ultimately—external marketing performance. This useful resource contains many special features to augment the text, including tables, figures, and models.

Internal Relationship Management explores key issues, such as:

• internal relationship management—managing relationships with internal customers
• human resources activities—actions taken to influence employee attitudes and work-related behaviors
• career entry—the initial stages of the internal relationship management process
• organizational support—services provided to employees in an effort to support them

• boundary spanners’ appraisals of career entry transition—from telecommunications, insurance, manufacturing, accounting, and retail firms
• the recruitment, selection, and retention of customer-contact service employees
• how internal communication processes affect boundary spanners’ satisfaction with organizational support services
• employee branding—employees internalize the firm’s desired brand image to project it to customers and external stakeholders
• the internal customer mindset—the importance employees place on serving internal customers