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Relationships between Personal Competence and Sales Performance of Sales Representatives: Focusing on Sales Representatives of Automobile Dealership  

Kim, Mee Hoe (The Graduate School of G. B. Entrepreneurship, Yonsei University)
Bae, byung Yun (The Graduate School of G. B. Entrepreneurship, Yonsei University)
Jeon, Ki Suk (College of Business & Government, Yonsei University)
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship / v.14, no.1, 2019 , pp. 17-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
Sales representatives of automobile company play a key role in the circulation system. Given the characteristics of the good, consumers demand high-quality information and guides from the salespersons when they decide to purchase an automobile. Sales representatives provide service to the customers in accordance with their needs to help purchase decision-making process. Therefore, a sales representative's personal competence have a significant effect on sales performance. Based on this hypothesis, we assumed that personal competence of a salesperson has a positive correlation with sales performance. An empirical analysis was conducted to test the hypothesis. This study classifies personal competence into 4 independent variables((1) sales technique professionalism (2) salesperson's attitude and relationship with customers (3) emotion utilization (4) emotion control) and measures the correlation with the dependent variable(sales performance). To verify the relationship, we set and modified the hypothesis based on the precedent studies and researches. In addiction, a survey was conducted targeting 300 local salespersons from Gyeonggi-Gangwon region. 268 valid samples were used and analyzed with SPSS WIN24.0 statistical program. As a result of an empirical analysis, it turned out that sales technique professionalism and emotion utilization have positive correlation with sales performance. However, the result failed to support the assumption that sales representative's attitude and relationship with customers and emotion control have positive correlation with sales performance. At last the result revealed that personal competence should be considered as an important determinant of recruitment specification for sales representatives.
Keywords
Personal Competence; Sales Performance; Automobile; Salesperson;
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