The relationship of takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis

Takaful agents have become among the important distribution channels in Takaful industry. Besides selling Takaful products, the agents must practice Islamic ethical behaviour in dealing with customers. This research seeks to investigate the relationship between Takafu...

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Main Authors: Che Mohd Salleh, Marhanum, Abdullah, Nurdianawati Irwani, Razali, Siti Salwani
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Language:English
Published: World Business Institute 2013
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spelling iium-402162016-08-20T01:12:35Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/40216/ The relationship of takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis Che Mohd Salleh, Marhanum Abdullah, Nurdianawati Irwani Razali, Siti Salwani H Social Sciences (General) Takaful agents have become among the important distribution channels in Takaful industry. Besides selling Takaful products, the agents must practice Islamic ethical behaviour in dealing with customers. This research seeks to investigate the relationship between Takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour and customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment. As there are limited studies conducted in this area, this research provides a preliminary analysis with 30 Takaful customers. Data were collected through survey research design using questionnaire as the research instrument. Results indicate that there are positive significant relationship between Takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment. However, majority of the respondents were not fully agreed about the practice of Islamic ethical behaviour by their Takaful agents understudy. Thus, Takaful operators need to play their role in guiding and encouraging their agents to practice the Islamic ethical behaviour in marketing Takaful products in order to ensure the publics’ satisfaction, trust, and commitment towards their Takaful scheme. World Business Institute 2013-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40216/1/Marhanum_journal_2013_2.pdf Che Mohd Salleh, Marhanum and Abdullah, Nurdianawati Irwani and Razali, Siti Salwani (2013) The relationship of takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis. Journal of Islamic Finance and Business Research, 2 (1). pp. 77-88. ISSN 1839-4299 http://www.wbiworld.org/journal#!__journal/vstc8=jifbr
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Che Mohd Salleh, Marhanum
Abdullah, Nurdianawati Irwani
Razali, Siti Salwani
The relationship of takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis
description Takaful agents have become among the important distribution channels in Takaful industry. Besides selling Takaful products, the agents must practice Islamic ethical behaviour in dealing with customers. This research seeks to investigate the relationship between Takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour and customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment. As there are limited studies conducted in this area, this research provides a preliminary analysis with 30 Takaful customers. Data were collected through survey research design using questionnaire as the research instrument. Results indicate that there are positive significant relationship between Takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment. However, majority of the respondents were not fully agreed about the practice of Islamic ethical behaviour by their Takaful agents understudy. Thus, Takaful operators need to play their role in guiding and encouraging their agents to practice the Islamic ethical behaviour in marketing Takaful products in order to ensure the publics’ satisfaction, trust, and commitment towards their Takaful scheme.
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author Che Mohd Salleh, Marhanum
Abdullah, Nurdianawati Irwani
Razali, Siti Salwani
author_facet Che Mohd Salleh, Marhanum
Abdullah, Nurdianawati Irwani
Razali, Siti Salwani
author_sort Che Mohd Salleh, Marhanum
title The relationship of takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis
title_short The relationship of takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis
title_full The relationship of takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis
title_fullStr The relationship of takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis
title_full_unstemmed The relationship of takaful agents’ Islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis
title_sort relationship of takaful agents’ islamic ethical behaviour towards customers’ satisfaction, trust and commitment: a preliminary analysis
publisher World Business Institute
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/40216/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/40216/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/40216/1/Marhanum_journal_2013_2.pdf
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