INFLUENCE OF CUSTOMER RECOGNITION ON CUSTOMER RETENTION IN COMMERCIAL BANKS

Faith Kipchilat, Dr. Mary Omodi

Abstract


The purpose of the study was to establish the effect of Customer recognition on customer retention in commercial banks. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The study targeted all the commercial banks in Kenya. The study was a census survey and thus collected data from all the 43 commercial banks. Purposive sampling was used to select the 43 managers of the marketing departments in each bank. The study used both primary data and secondary data. Primary was collected using questionnaires. To test the validity and reliability of the instrument that was used, pilot study was conducted. The researcher used descriptive statistics where frequencies and Percentage of responses were obtained through the use of SPSS. The measures of dispersion such as the mean and standard deviations were used. Tables and other graphical presentations such as bar charts, histogram, grouped frequency distributions and pie charts as appropriate were used to present the data collected for ease of understanding and analysis. The study found that customer recognition affect customer retention in commercial banks to a great extent. Thus commercial banks should continue in their customer recognition strategy to retain their customers.

Key Words; Customer Recognition, Customer Retention


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