The concept of Service Quality

Description
The PPT includes the Quality concept in the service industry.

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The Concept Of Service Quality

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Quality
• There are many definitions of quality: – Conformance to requirements – Fitness for use – Continual Improvement – As defined by customers – Zero defect – The totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated and implied need – Meeting expected needs and going beyond them

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Goods Vs. Services
The majority of GOODS are: Tangible Storable Transportable The majority of SERVICES are: Intangible Perishable Service providers are transportable

Immediate purchase is for capability of later performance

Immediate purchase is for immediate performance

Buyer involvement Low Quality Measurement Objective

Buyer involvement High Quality measurement Subjective

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Service
• Service is the non material equivalent of a good • No exclusive goods or services: considerable overlap • An economic activity that does not result in ownership • Process that creates benefits by facilitating: – either a change in customers – a change in their physical possessions – or a change in their intangible assets

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Service Quality
• A global judgment or attitude relating to the overall superiority of the service • Tool to increase value for the consumer • Ensures customer satisfaction, retention and patronage • Service boom- Indian consumers demanding better service quality • Players can no longer ignore consumer service issues

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Measuring service Quality
• Difficult to measure • Ideal indicator – State of Economy – State of Industry – Service provider in particular • No ideal measures • Still can be quantified • SERVQUAL- most popular • Service quality gap & expectations across industries

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Measuring Service Quality
• SERVQUAL
– A service quality rater – A useful model to quantitatively measure customers’ service experience – Reliability, assurance, tangibles, empathy, responsiveness – Applied externally to understand customer’s perceptions of service quality or applied internally to measure employees’ perceptions of service quality – However, not uniformly applicable across all sectors

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Perceived Service Quality
Word of mouth Personal needs Past experience

Service Quality Dimensions Reliability Responsiveness Assurance Empathy Tangibles

Expected service Perceived service

Service Quality Assessment 1. Expectations exceeded ES<PS (Quality surprise) 2. Expectations met ES~PS (Satisfactory quality) 3. Expectations not met ES>PS (Unacceptable quality)

Customer Satisfaction= Perceptions-Expectations

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Gaps in Service Quality
Word -of-mouth communications Personal needs Past experience

Expected service

Customer

GAP 5
Perceived service

Service delivery (including pre- and post-contacts)

External communications to consumers

GAP 1

GAP 3
Translation of perceptions into service quality specifications

GAP 4

GAP 2
Management perceptions of consumer expectations

Provider

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4 As of service Quality
• Anticipate and correct Problems before they occur • Acknowledge mistakes that occur without placing blame or make excuses • Apologize sincerely for a mistake even if you are not at fault • Make amends for the mistake by taking corrective action and following up to make sure the problem is resolved

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Total Quality Management
Total Quality Management comprises three aspects: • Quality target

• Quality development
• Quality assurance
Quality standard
Quality development Correction Planning

Review

Implementation

Quality assurance

Time

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Six Sigma Service Quality Management
• • • • • Emphasis on processes Collaborations without boundaries Active management Management updated to data Seek for perfection and embrace failure

• The 3 commandments of this philosophy are: – The Customer is the King – In God only we trust, rest all gather data – Variation is the enemy of all processes

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Six Sigma
Two basic Ideologies in Six Sigma • DMAIC is used to improve an existing business process • DMADV is used to create new product or process designs for predictable, defect-free performance.

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Six Sigma
• The key roles in Implementation – Executive Leadership – Champions – Master Black Belts – Experts – Black Belts – Green Belts – Yellow Belts

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References
• www.expresshospitality.com • EBSCO • www.wikipedia.org

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