服务质量缺口与服务质量管理研究

服务质量与顾客满意是息息相关的。当顾客觉得获得了优质服务时,他们就会觉得满意,从而有利于培养顾客的忠诚度。优质服务还有利于改善顾客、员工与企业的关系,有利于培养员工对企业的忠诚度。同时,优质服务也有利于企业获取更大的市场份额、更高的投资回报、降低企业对价格竞争的敏感程度。本文试图根据顾客对服务5个方面的预期和对实际提供服务的感知的差异,研究如何管理和进一步提高服务质量。     

Professional Service Quality

Abstract

Many of the services that are directed to business clients involve work by professionals who are employed by and/or own a supporting practice. To date, little attention has been directed to the possibility that the large variations in the size and nature of these firms may be reflected in the quality of services they produce. Further, no attempt has be made to delineate those quality factors that clients associate with the firm and those that are associated with the individual professional. This article reports the results of an empirical study designed to investigate the perceived relative influence of the individual, the practice, and several client variables as they affect the delivery of service quality.     

服务质量开发过程的质量管理体系

由于服务业在质量管理中存在许多问题,很难找到现成和权威的答案,因此要对服务质量管理所涉及的内容和方法进行分析与研究,借带制造业产品质量开发的步骤和技术,构建一种面向服务质量开发过程的服务质量管理体系构架。     

Measuring Service Quality in IT Services: Using Service Encounters to Elicit Quality Dimensions

ABSTRACT

Recent growth of personal computing and networked systems have resulted in Information Systems (IS) departments facing a heavy demand on their services. Based on internal marketing concepts, IS services need to use a measure of service quality for their internal customers. Studies carried out recently, suggest SERVQUAL as a possible measure of IS service quality. However, there are some issues that relate to their discriminant validity and appropriateness. A bottom-up approach to elicit service quality dimensions is explored using service encounters in a health organization. The results indicate that while the dimensions of responsiveness and assurance seem to be important, there is a need to re-look at these broad dimensions as more specific dimensions may be more appropriate for IS settings.     

服务质量的测评模型

时至今日,服务正日益成为企业改善经营绩效、获取竞争优势的强有力武器。消费者希望企业在销售高质量产品的同时能够提供高质量的服务,希望企业能够做到“质量如金,服务如心”。而要提供高质量的服务,首先就必须对服务质量有一个合理、准确、科学的评估。一、服务质量决定因素服务是以无形的方式,在顾客和服务职员、有形资源商品或服务系统之间发生的,可以解决顾客问题的一种或一系列行为。服务与有形商品相比,具有四个基本的特性:无形性、不可存储性、顾客参与性、生产与消费的同时性。通常顾客主要是从技术和职能两个层面来感知服务质量,…     

Service Encounter Conceptualisation: Employees' Service Behaviours and Customers' Service Quality Perceptions

The enhancement of service quality is an area of optimal managerial relevance that has, to date, received minimal attention in the literature. Because customers' service quality evaluations are based almost entirely upon the behaviours of frontline employees, organisations rely heavily upon these employees to improve overall service quality provision. However, much of the literature looking at service quality enhancement lacks detail when examining the impact of employee service-related behaviours on customers' service quality perceptions. As a result, this paper comprehensively conceptualises those front-line employee behaviours which are the most likely to enhance customers' service quality perceptions. This conceptualisation is grounded in an extensive review of the services marketing literature, pooling together previously disparate research strands. Formal hypotheses are presented. Implications and future research directions are also discussed.     

Operationalizing the Service Quality Construct

ABSTRACT

Previous research works have suggested that, for it to have practical utility, the service quality construct should not only be industry specific, but also be operational (non-global) in nature. This paper builds on that premise and utilizes a methodology suitable to produce operational measures for the service quality construct in the lodging industry. Of the four dimensions (Responsiveness, Recovery, Tangibles, and “Reliability/Trust mixed with Accessibility/Flexibility”) identified by an exploratory factor analysis, the present study finds that the first three appear to be distinct in the minds of the customers. Further confirming the above, regression analyses suggest that the overall perceived service quality in the lodging industry is significantly and positively associated with three dimensions: (1) Responsiveness, (2) Recovery, and (3) Tangibles, in that decreasing order of importance.     

Validating Restaurant Service Quality Dimensions

Abstract

Service-based industries such as hotels and restaurants are spending a tremendous effort to measure and improve the service quality of their businesses. Service quality is one of the key factors in achieving competitive advantages in the restaurant industry since high service quality presumably results in increased customer satisfaction, and thus increased future patronage. The purpose of this study was to examine the two generic service-quality dimensions: physical quality and staff behavior/attitude in restaurants by employing the confirmatory factor analysis approach. The findings indicated that the two-factor model of restaurant service quality was successfully validated and also, the predictive accuracy of the model was established.     

基于服务补救的服务质量提升研究

本文认为,实行服务补救是企业保持顾客满意、强化顾客忠诚的一个重要手段,其最大的价值在于以点的质量突变促进整体质量大跨越,从而实现服务宏观综合质量与其他方面质量的提升。文章提出,基于服务补救的服务质量提升模式主要由三部分组成:一是着眼于微观基点的质量维持稳固器,其功能主要是第一时间发现并识别服务失误,第一时间采取补救措施解决顾客问题并收集失误、补救以及顾客表现出的隐性与显性信息;二是质量价值挖掘器,这是把微观的服务补救价值放大、映射到整个宏观层面以提升整体服务质量的关键;三是质量提升推动器,是为了把以上所获得的全部价值注入到质量管理工作中来,以提升整体的服务质量。     

Service Quality in the Airline Industry

This article identifies a phenomenon that may be in- fluencing passengers' evaluation of airline carriers. The results of this study suggest that consumers may systematically distort their evaluation of airlines. Perceptions about service quality attributes are seemingly influenced more by factors internal to the individual than by the actual attributes available for observation. Implications are also identXed that may aid airline executives to address the com- plex, yet critical issue of "systematic distortion."     

Putting Service Quality into Gear and

How can a service business foster service quality? This article focuses on five important elements of a service quality programme: quality care; customer care; front-line care; communication care and leadership care. Most companies who use these five efforts towards the same goal get results, improved sales through improved customer service encounters and customer satisfaction.     

An Experienced-Based Measure of Service Quality

In this article we argue that there is a great need in service quality research to develop better procedures for collecting, selecting and interpreting data on service quality. We argue that such a proce- dure should be qualitative in nature rather than quantitative. The focus for study must then be measuring the total service ex- perience from the (internal) customer's point of view. We suggest a new experience-based method for generating qualitative aspects of service experiences. With these qualitative aspects we have a base for measuring service quality. This is illustrated in two case studies of industrial development services.     

Service Quality in Customer Relationships:

This article presents the results of a study of 205 service-related critical incidents in customer relationships in mechanical engineering companies. Information has been gathered from 15 Swedish companies, including Asea Brown Boveri Robotics, Atlas Copco, Bofors, Carlamo, Zander &; Ingesttorn and Wennmec. The selection has been made so as to obtain a spread as regards both tine of production and size of company.

The overall aim of the inquiry has been to increase the understanding of service-related critical incidents in the perspective of long-term, interactive customer relationships. What lies behind these situations? What effect do they have on the development of the selling process? How are customer relations affected? Critical incidents directly connected with the price or the hardware have not been included in this study.

‘Critical incident’ means a problematic, unpleasant situation which places special demands on the service-producing company's resources, especially on its personnel: for example, a customer meeting that fails to avoid friction. The customer may demand customer adaptation of the hardware, special training, special terms of guarantee, short delivery time or a special financing model. Other examples of critical incidents are agreements that have not been kept and missing or incorrect information.     

网上超市服务质量测量尺度

本文主要通过对有关传统服务业和网络服务业服务质量的研究进行综合和实证分析,开发出具有可靠性和有效性的网上超市服务质量的测量尺度。文章认为,目前对网上超市服务质量的测量主要是以传统服务业服务质量的测量尺度为基础,无法反映与传统服务业有显著差异的网上超市的服务特性;本文开发的测量尺度可用于消费者调查,分析顾客满意度,改善顾客感到不满意的服务事项,找出消费者认为重要的服务属性,并将此作为服务差异化和市场细分的标准,也可用于网上超市营销战略的制定及分析服务质量各要素对服务质量结果变量的影响力的大小,从而提高资源配置的合理性和有效性。     

黑龙江省物流企业服务质量探析

黑龙江省物流产业正处于起步之后的上升态势,各类商品物资外运数量庞大,物流业市场需求较旺,有较好发展潜力和空间,然而要发展物流则服务需先行。以顾客感知物流服务质量为主线,结合前人对相关内容研究的理论和调查结果,分析出影响黑龙江省物流服务质量的五个维度,且这五个维度之间为并列关系。黑龙江省物流企业可以从订购质量、定制化服务质量、回应质量、交付质量、误差处理质量等方面增强物流服务质量,从而满足多样化的物流发展服务。     

An Empirical Study of Service Quality Implementation

The strategic importance of quality management has grown in importance in recent years. However, although the competitive implications of adhering to a quality agenda have been much alluded to within the literature, the evidence from a review of published studies suggests that service quality and strategy issues have been addressed as separate concerns by researchers. This study examines the components which facilitate the quality implementation process. The factor analysis of data emphasises the importance of ‘senior managerial commitment’ and ‘employee resourcefulness’ in quality implementation initiatives and offers support to the growing implementation initiatives and offers support to the growing literature arguing for a greater consideration of the human dimension in quality implementation programmes. It is proposed that further research needs to be carried out to examine mangerial attiudes towards the service quality implementation process and to assess some of the practical issues involved in introducing quality initiatives in hotel organisations.     

Service Quality Perceptions of Foreign Direct Investors

ABSTRACT

In this article, the potential disparity between foreign direct investment (FDI) clients' service quality expectations and the actual service experienced (Gap 5) and how these impacts FDI inflows are investigated. Methodological triangulation encompassing quan-titative and qualitative methods is used. Contrary to the quantitative findings, the qualitative findings indicate that Gap 5 exists among the FDI clients. This is the first time the service quality model (performance-based construct) has been used to study FDI issues. Rather than applying the predominant “inside-out” mindset, the model adopts an “outside-in” mindset that uses perceived (actual) service as a reference point for clients' evaluation of service quality.     

Service Quality Measurements in a Developing Economy

Abstract

The relative practicality and usefulness of alternative measures of service quality is being debated in the marketing literature. This research tests measuring performance perceptions only (SERVPERF) against measuring customer expectations and performance (SERVQUAL) in the context of a developing economy. In addition, both SERVPERF and SERVQUAL scores are weighted with measurements of the importance of service attributes to customers. Findings confirm that SERVPERF and SERVQUAL each contribute different valuable information; however, weighting the measures adds no new information.     

B2C电子商务服务质量评价研究

通过借鉴成熟的B2C电子商务服务质量测评指标体系,采用层次分析法计算各级评价指标权重,以天猫为研究平台进行实证调研,进而得到对天猫的服务质量评价得分:天猫的总体服务质量处于较好水平,其中,服务过程指标的整体服务水平较高;而服务结果指标的整体服务水平次之,有待进一步提升;至于服务补救指标的整体服务水平较低,且低于天猫的整体服务质量,需要加强改进。微观上,该项研究可以指导天猫有针对性地提升企业服务质量,进一步提高顾客满意度和忠诚度;宏观上,该项研究为国内B2C电子商务企业服务质量评价提供了参考框架和决策依据,将有效促进国内电子商务行业服务质量的提升,推动电子商务行业的持续发展。