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Service Quality

Service Quality . Chapter 6. Dimensions of Service Quality. Reliability Responsiveness Assurance Empathy Tangibles. Reliability. Service is accomplished: On time In the same manner (consistently) Without errors. Responsiveness.

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Service Quality

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  1. Service Quality Chapter 6

  2. Dimensions of Service Quality • Reliability • Responsiveness • Assurance • Empathy • Tangibles

  3. Reliability • Service is accomplished: • On time • In the same manner (consistently) • Without errors

  4. Responsiveness • Willingness of employees to help customers and to provide prompt service

  5. Assurance • Knowledge and courtesy of employee • Ability of the employee to convey trust and confidence

  6. Empathy • Provision of caring and individualized attention to the customer

  7. Tangibles • Appearance of the physical facility • Appearance of employees • Appearance of communication materials

  8. Service Quality • For services, the assessment of quality is made during the service delivery process. • Customer satisfaction can be measured as the difference between the customer’s service expectation and the service actually received.

  9. Gaps in Service Quality • Measuring the gap between expected service and perceived service is a routine customer feedback process practiced by many companies

  10. Service Quality Gap Model

  11. SERVQUAL Instrument • Developed by Uttarayan Bagchi at University of Texas at Austin • Measures the five dimensions of service quality • How it works: • Customer expectations are measured • Customer perceptions are measured • Difference is calculated

  12. Designing Quality into A Service • Taguchi Methods • Poka-Yoke (Failsafing) • Quality Function deployment • Benchmarking

  13. Walk-Through Audit (WtA) • A process-oriented survey given to customers and managers to evaluate the perception of the customer service experience

  14. Identifying GAPS with WtA

  15. Achieving Service Quality • Cost of Quality • Service Process Control • Statistical Process Control • Unconditional Service Guarantee

  16. Cost of Quality • Insuring quality in a service delivery system may seem costly, but it is more costly to ignore quality • Prevention of poor quality is less costly than fixing problems that result because of poor quality

  17. Service Process Control • To control service quality, a feedback control system is used • A standard is developed • Service delivery is compared to the standard • Deviations from the standard are analyzed and improvements in service delivery are made

  18. Statistical Process Control • See handout

  19. Unconditional Service Guarantee • Unconditional • Easy to understand and communicate • Meaningful • Easy to invoke • Easy to collect

  20. Service Recovery • Case-by-case approach • Systematic-response approach • Early intervention approach • Substitute service recovery

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