EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF MARKETING ON THE SERVICE OF BANKING INDUSTRY (CASE STUDY OF FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC)

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TITLE PAGE

CERTIFICATION

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENT

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE ­– INTRODUCTION                                                         1

1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY                                                              1
   1. STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM                         2
   1. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY                                                      2
   1. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY                                            3
   1. RESEARCH QUESTION                                                                  3
   1. SCOPE OF THE STUDY                                                                  4
   1. LIMITATION OF THE STUDY                                                                 4
   1. SOLUTION TO THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE STUDY                        5
   1. STUDY PLAN                                                                           5
   1. DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS                                                         5

CHAPTER TWO– LITERATURE REVIEW                                                                7

2.1 MEANING OF MARKETING                                                                      7

2.2 MARKETING CONCEPTS                                                                 8

2.3 MEANING OF SERVICE ORGANIZATION                                                        8

2.4 MARKETING SERVICES                                                                  9

2.5 MARKETING MIX ELEMENTS                                                         11

2.6 SPECIAL FEATURES OF SERVICES                                                                15

2.7 EXTERNAL, INTERNAL AND INTERACTING MARKET                          17

2.8 HYPOTHESIS FORMULATION                                                         18

CHAPTER THREE– RESEARCH METHODOLOGY                                   19

3.1 HISTORICAL PROFILE OF THE CASE STUDY                                           19

3.2 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION                                                            20

3.3 POPULATION AND SAMPLE SIZE                                                             21

3.4 SAMPLING TECHNOLOGY                                                                       21

3.5 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS                                                         21

CHAPTER FOUR– DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS                                   

4.1 DISCUSSION OF ANALYSIS                                                                       23

4.2 DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS                                                                       35

CHAPTER FIVE-SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1 SUMMARY                                                                              37

5.2 CONCLUSION                                                                            37

5.3 RECOMMENDATION                                                                        38

BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                                                      39

APPENDICES                                                                                 

A      LETTER OF INTRODUCTION                                                          40

B      QUESTIONNAIRE                                                                    41

CHAPTER ONE

1.0: BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

1.1: INTRODUCTION

        Marketing as a discipline has evolved from its old origin of distribution and selling to a comprehensive modern philosophy of marketing. Thus marketing today is perceived as a cornerstone of policy and practice of small, big knowledgeable organizations including non profit making organization such as government parastatals, ministries etc. and non governmental organization such as Churches, Mosques who are seeing Marketing as a new way of looking at their relationship with their publics.

        Marketing is usually identified with an economy of abundance where a nation produces for beyond the substance needs and in order to maintain competition advantages. Marketing is no longer a mere distribution and services, it has evolved into a central business function which tries to dynamically relate the organization to its markets and thus enable it to adjust and service the changing environment. The managers today are not only tasked with determining the price of a product or services rendered but also has to set targets, organize marketing instrument and control the various marketing mixes in order to achieve set objectives.

        These customers’ requirements or needs can be tangible or intangibles i.e.  Physical products and services.

        Kotler, (2000) sees physical goods anything or product that is been offered to the customer or publics in order to meet customers needs and want which can be seen, touch, smell, taste and feel.

        He further proposed that service is any activity or benefit that one party can offer to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of any tangible or physical

Products. In a service organization, prices of services are not subjected to bargain or prior agreement which exposes the customers to possible exploitation by the service provider (oyebode: 2006).

        The American Marketing Associations (AMA) defines marketing as a managerial process that is responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customers requirement as a profit.

        Organization is the coming together of two or more persons or companies to contribute wealth together with a common goal in order to achieve organizational objectives ( Kabiru: 2001). Therefore, marketing is very relevant in service organizational and the marketing activities to be used or introduced in a service organization is based on the organizational positioning, organization’s policy towards competitive advantage, most especially in the banking industry.

1.2: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

        The problems of this study shall be expressed in the following questions;

1. What is the relevance of Marketing in a service organization?
2. What types of marketing mix are mostly favored in a service organization?
3. Does the channel of distribution used help in goal realization in a service firm?
4. How was the pricing policies helped in goal realization in service organization?
5. How can Marketing strategies affect the customers’ patronage and their satisfaction in a service organization?

1.3: AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

        The aim of this study is an examination of relevance of Marketing to service organization using a financial service firm as a case study.

        Therefore, the following objectives shall be pursued:

1. To find out whether the customers are satisfied with the kind of services being offered to them or not.
2. To measure the reliability of the service rendered by a giving service organization, using a particular organization as case study.
3. To examine whether the service rendered are affordable or expensive.
4. To establish the correlation (if any) between the customers perceived satisfaction from the case study and other service products in the same industry.

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