Service means the process aimed at meeting customer expectations‚ which is fundamentally based on the direct or indirect interaction of the customer and the supplier. The result of the service typically manifests itself in an intangible form. Service quality is a way to manage business processes in order to ensure total satisfaction to the customer on all levels (internal and external). It is an approach that leads to an increase of competitiveness‚ effectiveness and flexibility of the entire company
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Measuring Perceived Service Quality Using s e rv q ua l: A Case Study of the Croatian Hotel Industry ´ s u z ana m ar k ovi c Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija‚ Croatia s an j a r as p o r Polytechnic of Rijeka‚ Croatia The purpose of the study is to examine customers’ perceptions of service quality in the Croatian hotel industry. The aim is to assess the perceived service quality of hotel attributes and to determine the factor structure of service quality perception. A modified
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Number 1 ♦ 2010 SERVICE QUALITY IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE Prabha Ramseook-Munhurrun‚ University of Technology‚ Mauritius Soolakshna D. Lukea-Bhiwajee‚ University of Technology‚ Mauritius Perunjodi Naidoo‚ University of Technology‚ Mauritius ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to obtain a better understanding of the extent to which service quality is delivered within the Mauritian public service by drawing on front-line employees (FLE) and customer perceptions of service quality. The paper investigates
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Topic Review Question Topic 6: Designing Quality Service 1. Explain the reason why quality techniques in the service industry are less mature than quality techniques for manufactured products. Give your opinion‚ what can be done to bring quality techniques for the services industry up to a higher level? As discussed in Question 3‚ product quality has been in existence far longer than service quality. Tools such as SERVUAL and gap analysis are being pressed into use. Concepts like the interrelationships
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QUALITY OF HOSPITALITY SERVICE A CHALLENGE Delivering quality service will be one of the major challenges facing hospitality managers in the opening years of the next millennium. It will be an essential condition for success in the emerging‚ keenly competitive‚ global hospitality markets. While the future importance of delivering quality hospitality service is easy to discern and to agree on‚ doing so presents some difficult and intriguing management issues. Since the delivery of hospitality
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A Measure of Service Quality for Retail Stores: Scale Development and Validation Pratibha A. Dabholkar Dayle I. Thorpe Joseph 0. Rentz University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville Current measures of service quality do not adequately capture customers ’perceptions of service quality for retail stores (i.e.‚ stores that offer a mix of goods and services). A hierarchical factor structure is proposed to capture dimensions important to retail customers based on the retail and service quality literatures
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Why service quality is important in airlines An airline is a company that offers air transport for passengers and freight. Airlines vary widely in size‚ from small companies with only one or two planes to huge multinational companies. While the industry initially grew slowly‚ these companies began to take off in a major way after World War II‚ thanks in part to large numbers of returning aviators. By the 1990s‚ air travel had become ubiquitous. For passengers the advantages could be; 1
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Zeithaml & Bitner (2003: 85) states that: "Service quality is a focused evaluation that reflects the customer’s perception of specific dimensions of service: reliability‚ responsiveness‚ assurance‚ Empathy‚ tangibles. Satisfaction‚ on other hand‚ is more inclusive: it is influenced by perceptions of service quality‚ product quality‚ and price as well as situational factors and personal factors Zeithaml & Bitner (2003: 85) states that: "Service quality is a focused evaluation that reflects the customer’s
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The Three Stage Model of Service Consumption Pre-Purchase Stage I am a lover of spicy foods and from time to time‚ I have serious cravings to have food that will burn my tastebuds. Last weekend was one of those days where my need for spicy food aroused and in no time I took the internet to find the place which served the spiciest food here in Melbourne. The criteria’s I was looking at was food which is not only spicy but also tasty and a full dinner course which will cost me not more than
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LITERATURE REVIEW SERVICE QUALITY AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN KFC CHAINSTORES The purpose of this study is investigating the service quality of KFC chain stores and how the service quality affect customer satisfaction based on the theory of “service quality” and “customer satisfaction” and the Customer satisfaction survey in website: talktokfc.com. We do the literature reviewson some important concepts to make clearer about the service quality and the level of customer satisfaction in KFC chain
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