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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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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Measuring the services quality of Celcom Broadband in Politeknik Kota Kinabalu Azrin Bin Jalasi Jabatan Perdagangan Politeknik Kota Kinabalu azrin@polikk.edu.my Noorain Imbug Jabatan Perdagangan Politeknik Kota Kinabalu Noorain@polikk.edu.my Ramdan Ali Jabatan Perdagangan Politeknik Kota Kinabalu Ramdan@polikk.edu.my Abstract The main focus of this study is to investigate the customers’ satisfaction towards the Celcom Broadband services quality in Politeknik Kota Kinabalu
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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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Measuring the Service Quality of Service Sector - A Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia R.Renjith Kumar‚ Asst. Prof and Head of the Department‚ Ilahia School of Management Studies‚ Ilahia College of Engineering and Technology‚ Muvattupuzha‚ Kerala Abstract Service sector is growing in Ethiopia which basically an agrarian country is trying to become a developing country in the North Eastern Africa. Banking services have gained significant role in this country due to increasing number of customers
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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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many service quality issues faced by a local mass transport company‚ SMRT. The company has to still remain functional amidst mass criticism amongst the public due to inefficient communication networks‚ inefficient maintenance and various problems in the senior management. As a newly appointed senior manager‚ it is imperative that we work towards delivering a high quality service to our customers. There are many tools and quality improvement frameworks that we can use to improve existing service quality
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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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Carolyn Watson September 13‚ 2014 Week 3 – Manufacturing & Service Problems Manufacturing & Service Problems Problem #1: For each of the following variables‚ explain the differences (in general) as one moves from a workcenter to an assembly line environment (Jacobs & Chase‚ 2011). a. Throughput time (time to convert raw materials into product) – During the manufacturing process which is considered as the workcenter (e.g. job shop) that usually involves a specialist who does a specific job or
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Conference on Mobile Business A Model to Identify the Dimensions of Mobile Service Quality Christos K. Georgiadis Emmanouil Stiakakis Department of Applied Informatics University of Macedonia Thessaloniki‚ Greece stiakakis@uom.gr Department of Applied Informatics University of Macedonia Thessaloniki‚ Greece geor@uom.gr Abstract—The aim of this paper is to identify the dimensions of mobile service (m-service) quality. Based on the literature review and intervening to specific theoretical
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