The composition and impact of internal service quality: An empirical study in hotel industry

Abstract

Based on a sample of 218 first-line service staffs from hotel industry, this study explored the dimensions of Internal Service Quality (ISQ) and examined their relationships with employee work satisfaction, organizational commitment and work engagement. Results showed that the ISQ contains of two dimensions, namely environment quality and interactive quality. Environment quality had significant and positive effects on organizational commitment and work engagement. And interactive quality had positive impact on the three consequence variables. Compared with environment quality, employees' perceived interactive quality had greater effect on their positive work attitudes. The implications of the findings are considered and suggestions for future research are provided.