Improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in school of postgraduate studies

Customer satisfaction and service quality are important concepts to academic researchers studying consumer evaluations and to practitioners as a means of creating competitive advantages and customer loyalty. The aim of this study was improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in SPS...

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Main Author:	Fattahi, Haniyeh
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	HD30.213 Management information systems Decision support systems
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35859/5/HaniyehFattahiMFSKSM2013.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.358592017-07-18T07:13:09Z Improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in school of postgraduate studies 2013-05 Fattahi, Haniyeh HD30.213 Management information systems. Decision support systems Customer satisfaction and service quality are important concepts to academic researchers studying consumer evaluations and to practitioners as a means of creating competitive advantages and customer loyalty. The aim of this study was improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in SPS unit in UTM. Service quality gaps are the difference between customer expectation and customer perception. Measuring gaps are the first step in enhancing customer satisfaction. SPS as a service provider, meets a big challenge in satisfy a large number of students as the number of students increase every year. There is a significant gap in the entire dimension in service quality model for SPS. The method that used for investigating service quality gap was revised SERVQUAL model. This model includes five dimensions, tangible, systemization, service core, social responsibility and human element. The data collection instrument was questionnaire. The question’s of questionnaire was according to factor of revised SERVQUAL model. The result indicated that there are significant gap among dimensions of this model. Service core dimension has biggest gap among other dimensions, systemization is afterward the big gap with short difference. In general, there is low customer satisfaction among student because of gaps in service quality gap. Proposed model after finding gaps and offered solution to minimize the service quality gap. Increase number of staff, training student and staff, increase working time and increase service capacity upgrade are solution to minimize the gaps in SPS. 2013-05 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35859/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35859/5/HaniyehFattahiMFSKSM2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:70026?site_name=Restricted Repository masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
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spellingShingle	HD30.213 Management information systems Decision support systems Fattahi, Haniyeh Improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in school of postgraduate studies
description	Customer satisfaction and service quality are important concepts to academic researchers studying consumer evaluations and to practitioners as a means of creating competitive advantages and customer loyalty. The aim of this study was improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in SPS unit in UTM. Service quality gaps are the difference between customer expectation and customer perception. Measuring gaps are the first step in enhancing customer satisfaction. SPS as a service provider, meets a big challenge in satisfy a large number of students as the number of students increase every year. There is a significant gap in the entire dimension in service quality model for SPS. The method that used for investigating service quality gap was revised SERVQUAL model. This model includes five dimensions, tangible, systemization, service core, social responsibility and human element. The data collection instrument was questionnaire. The question’s of questionnaire was according to factor of revised SERVQUAL model. The result indicated that there are significant gap among dimensions of this model. Service core dimension has biggest gap among other dimensions, systemization is afterward the big gap with short difference. In general, there is low customer satisfaction among student because of gaps in service quality gap. Proposed model after finding gaps and offered solution to minimize the service quality gap. Increase number of staff, training student and staff, increase working time and increase service capacity upgrade are solution to minimize the gaps in SPS.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Fattahi, Haniyeh
author_facet	Fattahi, Haniyeh
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title	Improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in school of postgraduate studies
title_short	Improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in school of postgraduate studies
title_full	Improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in school of postgraduate studies
title_fullStr	Improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in school of postgraduate studies
title_full_unstemmed	Improving service quality gap through customer satisfaction in school of postgraduate studies
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department	Faculty of Computing
publishDate	2013
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35859/5/HaniyehFattahiMFSKSM2013.pdf
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