Download or read book Service Quality SQ written by Arthur Collins and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, since the turn of the century, economic conditions have been very challenging, turning the market place into a highly competitive, cut throat environment. Service excellence has therefore become non-negotiable and service providers have no option other than to ensure that their service offering, which is translated in terms of various elements of customer service, is excellent and exceptionally creative to encourage customers' return intentions. This book discusses different perspectives of service quality as well as management and ways to improve SQ.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on the Interplay Between Service Quality and Customer Delight written by Sarma, Sarmistha and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in the field of service quality and consumer behavior has developed in many dimensions in the past decade. A number of models have been developed to determine the factors leading to satisfaction; however, within the past few years, scholars have proved that satisfaction is not sufficient to leave a strong mark in the minds of the customers. Service quality and customer delight have been the buzzwords in the business world in recent times as scholars have proven that customer delight is the key to customer retention. The Handbook of Research on the Interplay Between Service Quality and Customer Delight considers how companies around the world in a cross-cultural environment are dealing with service quality and customer delight and proposes a global outlook on the current trends, tactics, and opportunities. Covering key topics such as buyer funnels, consumer dissonance, and digital solutions, this reference work is ideal for business owners, managers, industry professionals, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

Download or read book Services Management Conceptualizing and Measuring Customer Perceived Service Quality written by Tim Ebner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 2,3, University of Münster (Junior Professorship for Marketing), language: English, abstract: Service Quality is a field of marketing, which stimulated numerous scholars to do theoretical and empirical research on. The SERVQUAL concept first was amongst concepts like The Nordic Model by Grönroos (1984) and The Three-Component Model by Rust and Oliver (1994) and SERVPERF by Cronin and Taylor (1992). After there has been a major debate which role expectations should play for service quality, which primary dimensions should be used to conceptualize and measure it and how service quality has to be integrated in existing marketing theory, newer approaches concentrate either on the depth of these dimensions, further optimization of the integration of service quality into marketing theory or specific factors which might play a role on distinct settings. In a multilevel approach, primary dimensions can be understood as direct antecedents of service quality. Subdimensions are antecedents of the primary dimensions of service quality. This paper deals with the issue, how customer perceived service quality (CPSQ) is supposed to be conceptualized and measured. In order to do this, the first section begins simply with several ideas that came up in literature what factors might influence service quality and how it can be defined. Then the paper illustrates why generality of theories is useful in Marketing Research and how it can be achieved. Moreover, an adequate framework to justify or reject particular concepts and measurements of service quality is provided. In the third section, the paper continues with the introduction of concepts and measurements of service quality. Attention is given to broader approaches as well as specific approaches of service quality. The paper combines these approaches in the fourth section with the help of the diagnostic framework provided before in order to achieve a concept of CPSQ with an optimal degree of generality. Thereafter the paper closes with a conclusion that gives a résumé on the results of this work.

Download or read book Delivering Satisfaction and Service Quality written by Peter Hernon and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good customers expect excellent service. Increasingly, library customers are looking to online services instead of to the library for information. For every library that wants to win satisfied customers and bring those that have strayed back into the library, here are proven tools to assess needs and improve service.

Download or read book Effective Methods for Modern Healthcare Service Quality and Evaluation written by Manolitzas, Panagiotis and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turbulent changes in worldwide economies and decreases in overall quality of life have led to a re-evaluation of the current state of health services. Improvements in this sector will allow for more efficient healthcare delivery to the public, as well as increased patient satisfaction. Effective Methods for Modern Healthcare Service Quality and Evaluation is an authoritative reference source for the latest research on emerging tools and methodologies for the design of healthcare models, providing expert analyses on trouble-shooting specific problems in the industry and creating optimal hospital environments. Highlighting various perspectives across a range of relevant health services, this book is ideally designed for policy makers, researchers, upper-level students, and practitioners.

Download or read book Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction in Private and Public Sector Banks in Kerala A Comparative Study written by Laly Antoney and published by Prem Jose. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality and satisfaction are the key indicators of corporate competitiveness. Measurement of customer satisfaction based on the service quality is to be done independently and objectively to establish baseline for improvements in service delivery. Assessing customer satisfaction periodically allows bank management and policy makers to identify customers’ needs, expectations, perception and the perception- expectation gaps. The current study covers a comparative analysis of service quality and customer satisfaction among the customers of public and private sector commercial banks in Kerala. The research questions that are addressed in this study are on expectations and perceptions of retail customers from their preferred banks, relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction and the difference between the satisfaction level among private and public- sector banks in Kerala. In order to answer the above research questions, the problem is stated as “Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction- a Comparative Study between Public Sector and Private Sector Banks of Kerala.” A descriptive and analytical research was carried out by collecting responses from customers of three prominent banks from private and public sector each. This was done through an online structured questionnaire based on SERVQUAL model during July 2015 to July 2016, prior to SBI consolidation. Primary data is analysed using SPSS (V.21). Kolmogorov- Smirnov Test for the Normality is used to ensure normality of data distribution, Cronbach Alpha coefficient is used to measure reliability and validity is tested with the panel of experts. Mean, S.D. percentage, cross tabulation are used for descriptive and univariate analysis. Structural Equation Modelling, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and regression path analysis are used to conduct inferential and multivariate analysis. Z-test, Independent T-Test, Chi-Square, ANOVA Pearson Correlation, and post hoc tests are used for testing of hypothesis and comparative analysis. Modelling is done using Structural Equation Modelling approach and Path Analysis. The study reveals that the antecedents of customer satisfaction of retail banking customers of Kerala are reliability, assurance, empathy and tangibles. Responsiveness dimension do not affect customer satisfaction of banks in Kerala. There exists a gap between expected service quality and perceived service quality. Study reveals that there is significant positive correlation between service quality and customer satisfaction in the retail commercial banking services in Kerala. The level of customer satisfaction in public sector banks and private sector banks are not significantly different but same. Similarly, it is also found that, there is no significant difference in the customer satisfaction between sample banks like State Bank of India, State Bank of Travancore, Canara Bank, from public sector and Federal bank, South Indian bank and ICICI bank from private sector.

Download or read book Measuring Of Services Quality Initiatives Undertaken By Eye Hospitals In Kolkata written by Bhaskar Mukherjee and published by Archers & Elevators Publishing House. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Service Quality written by Stephen Walter Brown and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Download or read book Service Quality written by Roland T. Rust and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of service and service quality has been growing in the world economy since the late 1970s. Establishing new levels of sophistication and rigor, as well as a broad set of approaches, Service Quality presents the latest research and theory in customer satisfaction and services marketing.

Download or read book Delivering Quality Service written by Valarie A. Zeithaml and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellence in customer service is the hallmark of success in service industries and among manufacturers of products that require reliable service. But what exactly is excellent service? It is the ability to deliver what you promise, say the authors, but first you must determine what you can promise. Building on seven years of research on service quality, they construct a model that, by balancing a customer's perceptions of the value of a particular service with the customer's need for that service, provides brilliant theoretical insight into customer expectations and service delivery. For example, Florida Power & Light has developed a sophisticated, computer-based lightening tracking system to anticipate where weather-related service interruptions might occur and strategically position crews at these locations to quicken recovery response time. Offering a service that customers expect to be available at all times and that they will miss only when the lights go out, FPL focuses its energies on matching customer perceptions with potential need. Deluxe Corporation, America's highly successful check printer, regularly exceeds its customers' expectations by shipping nearly 95% of all orders by the day after the orders were received. Deluxe even put U.S. Postal Service stations inside its plants to speed up delivery time. Customer expectations change over time. To anticipate these changes, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company regularly monitors the expectations and perceptions of their customers, using focus group interviews and the authors' 22-item generic SERVQUAL questionnaire, which is customized by adding questions covering specific aspects of service they wish to track. The authors' groundbreaking model, which tracks the five attributes of quality service -- reliability, empathy, assurance, responsiveness, and tangibles -- goes right to the heart of the tendency to overpromise. By comparing customer perceptions with expectations, the model provides marketing managers with a two-part measure of perceived quality that, for the first time, enables them to segment a market into groups with different service expectations.

Download or read book Service Quality Measurement Issues and Perspectives written by Lewlyn L. R. Rodrigues and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is very useful for it is not just ‘descriptive’ in its nature, but ‘prescriptive’, too. It is descriptive in the sense that it describes the process of developing or using a metric in a problem situation, and prescriptive as it clearly prescribes how a beginner can put the theory into practice. In this globalized economy, maintaining quality of products and services has been the thrust area of interest among academicians and practitioners. Today, there are quite a good number of books and research articles available. Nevertheless, service quality measurement has always posed problems, particularly in the context of service industries due to the difficulty in the measurement of the intangibles and implied needs of the customers. The research literature is filled with articles on how to quantify the services, and there are several streams of arguments on the choice of the most ideal approach. However, the research gap lies in the answer to the question: ‘Do these measurement instruments concur in their measurement outcomes or do they give different results in the same situation?’ This book primarily makes an attempt to answer this question through a case study approach. Even though, there are several instruments for the measurement of service quality, the two most widely used instruments are SERVQUAL and SERVPERF metrics. Comprehensively, this book explains the systematic procedure of using both, the instruments in a service sector, and further, the procedure for conducting a statistical analysis so that one will be able to apply the same in any service sector. It then takes the reader through a series of tests in order to compare the two metrics, and to prove statistically if there is the same outcome in a problem situation. The results are sure to surprise the reader, and trigger the “research bent of mind” to undertake a similar study of such metrics and gain mastery over performing an independent research with very minimal guidance from a professional guide. To conclude, this book is sure to provide adequate inputs for a service quality researcher, and answer various questions wriggling in the mind of a beginner of service quality research such as: How shall I start with service quality measurement? How to collect data? How to select a sample? How to conduct a literature review? How to analyse the data? What research methodology is applicable? How to build hypothesis on my research? How to use statistical procedures? How to present the [...]

Download or read book Service Quality written by Benjamin Schneider and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last three decades have seen a dramatic increase in the attention businesses devote to their quality of service. Scholars and researchers in a number of disciplines, including marketing, human resources I/O psychology, sociology, and consumer behavior, have all made substantial contributions to understanding what service is, how service and service delivery quality are experienced by customers, and the role of employees and their organizations in service delivery. Service Quality: Research Perspectives presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the field and its research, including its growth, emerging trends, and debates

Download or read book SERVICE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE SECTOR A study based on Government Hospitals written by Dr.A.Antony Selva Priya & Dr.R.Anantha Laxmi and published by Lulu Publication. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care has become one of India’s largest sectors both in terms of revenue and employment. Health care comprises of hospitals, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, medical tourism, health, insurance and medical equipment. In 2015, the Indian health care sector became the fifth largest employer, both in terms of direct as well as indirect employment, with total direct employment of 4,713,061 people. India is expected to rank amongst the top three healthcare markets in terms of incremental growth by 2020. The Indian health care sector is growing at a brisk pace due to its strengthening coverage, services and increasing expenditure by public as well asprivate players.

Download or read book Web Based Services Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 2461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent explosion of digital media, online networking, and e-commerce has generated great new opportunities for those Internet-savvy individuals who see potential in new technologies and can turn those possibilities into reality. It is vital for such forward-thinking innovators to stay abreast of all the latest technologies. Web-Based Services: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides readers with comprehensive coverage of some of the latest tools and technologies in the digital industry. The chapters in this multi-volume book describe a diverse range of applications and methodologies made possible in a world connected by the global network, providing researchers, computer scientists, web developers, and digital experts with the latest knowledge and developments in Internet technologies.

Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy written by Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 1996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society, globally, has entered into what might be called the "service economy." Services now constitute the largest share of GDP in most countries and provide the major source of employment in both developed and developing countries. Services permeate all aspects of peoples’ lives and are becoming inseparable from most aspects of economic activity. "Quality management" has been a dominating managerial practice since World War II. With quality management initially associated with manufacturing industries, one might assume the relevance of quality management might decrease with the emergence of the service economy. To the contrary, the emergence of the service economy strengthened the importance of quality issues, which no longer are associated only with manufacturing industries but are increasingly applied in all service sectors, as well. Today, we talk not only about product or service quality but have even expanded the framework of quality to quality of life and quality of environment. Thus, quality and services have emerged in parallel as closely interrelated fields. The Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy explores such relevant questions as: What are the characteristics, nature, and definitions of quality and services? How do we define quality of products, quality of services, or quality of life? How are services distinguished from goods? How do we measure various aspects of quality and services? How can products and service quality be managed most effectively and efficiently? What is the role of customers in creation of values? These questions and more are explored within the pages of this two-volume, A-to-Z reference work.

Download or read book Services Marketing written by Christopher Lovelock and published by Pearson Australia. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Services Marketing is well known for its authoritative presentation and strong instructor support. The new 6th edition continues to deliver on this promise. Contemporary Services Marketing concepts and techniques are presented in an Australian and Asia-Pacific context. In this edition, the very latest ideas in the subject are brought to life with new and updated case studies covering the competitive world of services marketing. New design features and a greater focus on Learning Objectives in each chapter make this an even better guide to Services Marketing for students. The strategic marketing framework gives instructors maximum flexibility in teaching. Suits undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Services Marketing."

Download or read book SERVICE QUALITY AND CONSUMERISM A WAY TOWARDS HEALTHCARE EXCELLENCE written by Dr. Naitik Kantilal Patel , Dr. Bhupinder Chaudhary & Dr. Kinjal G. Jani and published by Ashok Yakkaldevi. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measuring the quality of intangible service products has become a great challenge for managers, administrators and policy makers in the health services industry. Patient satisfaction or dissatisfaction is a complicated phenomenon that is linked to patient expectations, patient rights, health status, personal characteristics as well as health system characteristics. However, patient satisfaction as an indicator of quality of healthcare has evolved as an outcome measure and patient satisfaction surveys are being increasingly identified to be established yardsticks to measure success of the service delivery system functional at hospitals.