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    II. Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

    1. Introduction

    2. Definitions

    2.1 Call Center:

    Since the 1970s, call centers have traditionally been defined as physical places

    where calls were received in high volume. This was initially for the purpose of answering

    customer queries of service industry. There is not much change in recent decade except

    that many industries are conducting standard services through Call Centers such as

    banking, insurance, traveling, telecommunication services, airliner, and etc. Also it isbroadly used in plenty of business activities such as telesales, telemarketing, and technical

    support. In these contexts, the call centers entitle organizations to interact with their

    customers through a telephone from any location in the world with no reference to physical

    boundaries. Call centers allow organizations to keep their customers in track for business

    purpose.

    Apart from traditional functions, call center can make outgoing calls to customers

    (Shanti N.Tiwari, 2009)1. The call center can be a focal point for most specific business

    activities of an organization such as answer incoming calls; log calls as well as solicits

    customers for new sales, donations, conduct customers survey etc.

    According to Shanti (2009), call center can be any of the following:

    Huge telemarketing centers

    Fund-raising and collection organization

    Help desks, both internal and external

    Outsourcers (better known as service bureaus) that use their large capacity to serve

    lots of companies

    Reservation centers for airlines and hotels

    Recent globalization has made call center a rapid rate growth industry the in

    developing world when worldwide organizations outsourced their call centers to lower-cost

    regions. This growth reflects aspiration of companies to improve access to their business in

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    more efficient time period manner to attain satisfied customers (Bird, 1998)2. The

    development of technologies has forced the companies to restructure the ways they

    managed relationships with customers. Many industries, such as banking, have been

    innovatively applying state-of-the-art technology in their customer relationship

    management through telephone and internet banking. Call centers provide organizations

    valuable information about the performance of their services (Staples et. al, 2001)3. They

    allow organizations to understand how customers feet about service performance.

    (Gilmore, 2001)4

    2.2 ServiceThe 21st century is considered as the service industry century. Service industry is

    growing at a rapid pace across developed and developing countries. There are many

    definitions of what constitutes service.

    Services are deeds, processes and performances (Zeithaml and Bitner, 2003)5.

    Broadly speaking, services include all economic activities whose output is not a physical

    product or construction is generally consumed at the time it is produced and provides

    added value in forms (convenience, amusement, timeliness, comfort or health) that are

    essentially intangible concerns of its first purchaser (Quinn,Baruch and Paquette, 1987).6

    Service has been entering every part of life from the most essential demands (such as

    eating, sleeping) to other entertainment needs (such as sport, traveling, cooking, and

    telecommunication). In other words, we readily define bank, hotel, restaurants, and beauty

    salon as being service-based business. Similarly said by Hung N. Bui (2004) 7 service is an

    activity that impacts all parts of our life. Since we were born, our lives have relied on

    services (such as hospital service, education service, retail service etc.). In addition to that,

    nowadays a wide range of products heavily rely on its services to acquire competitive

    advantages. For instance, a TV buyer is now buying not only tangible components of a TV

    set but also other service benefits like free delivery and installation, 24 hour technical

    support etc.

    Another definition of service is that a service is any activity or benefit that one

    party offers to another which is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership

    of anything. Its product may or may not be tied to a physical product (Kotler, Armstrong,

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    Saunders and Wong 19998). These modern marketers view services as a business that

    produces no tangible product.

    2.3 Service quality

    Service quality was defined differently through the view of many researchers. For

    example:

    Bitner, Booms and Mohr (1994)9 defined service quality as the consumers overall

    impression of the relative inferiority / superiority of the organization and its services.

    Therefore, service quality is key of survival to all servicing companies.

    Cronin and Taylor (1994)10

    viewed service quality as a form of attituderepresenting a long-run overall evaluation. Maintaining service quality at certain level and

    improving service quality must be life-time efforts to those companies who desire life-time

    prosperity in customers heart.

    Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry (1985)11defined service quality as a function of

    the differences between expectation and performance along the quality dimensions.

    Likewise, Roest and Pieters (1997)12 held the same definition that service quality is a

    relativistic and cognitive discrepancy between experience-based norms and performances

    concerning service benefits.

    2.4 Customer satisfaction

    Definitions of customer satisfaction have been widely discussed from the view of

    many researchers and organizations who increasingly desire to measure it. A group of

    researchers of the Center for the Study of Social Policy (2007)13 conceptualize that

    satisfaction is based on the customers experience of both contact with the organization

    (the moment of truth) and personal outcomes. According to these researchers, satisfaction

    can be experienced in a variety of situations and connected to both goods and services. To

    another extent, these researchers defined satisfactions as a highly personal assessment

    that is greatly influenced by individual expectations. This definition views individual

    element as powerful force to create satisfaction. Likewise, many researchers (Oliver, 1981;

    Brady and Robertson, 200114) conceptualize customer satisfaction as an individuals

    feeling of pleasure or disappointment resulting from comparing a products perceived

    performance (or outcome) in relation to his or her expectations.15

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    Whereas, Boulding et al., (1993)16 and Yi and La (2004)17 conclude satisfaction into

    two general conceptualizations: transaction-specific satisfaction and cumulative

    satisfaction. Transaction-specific satisfaction is a customers evaluation of his or her

    experience and reactions to a particular service encounter (Cronin and Taylor, 1992;

    Boshoff and Gray, 2004). Cumulative satisfaction refers to the customers overall

    evaluation of the consumption experience to date (Jones and Suh 2000) 18.

    Because customer satisfaction is highly variable assessment individuals do based

    on their experiences with specific features of products and services they receive, it makes

    sense for servicing organizations to involve customer satisfaction measurement as their

    meaningful benchmark for development.

    2.5 Link between service quality and customer satisfaction

    Many researches have realized the interrelated values of service quality and

    customer satisfaction. Corrin and Taylor (1992)19 consider that service quality and

    customer satisfaction share a close relationship. Service quality is the key to measure

    user satisfaction (Pitt et al., 1995)20. Taylor and Baker (1994) and Rust and Olivier (1994)

    identified several factors that precede customer satisfaction. They argued that there are 5

    antecedents that contribute to satisfaction: clear understanding of customer needs and

    expectations, perceived value, service quality, internal satisfaction and complaint

    management. This research showed that Service quality is one major attribute of

    satisfaction. It is said by Olivier (1993) that service quality is a casual antecedent of

    customer satisfaction, due to the fact that service quality is viewed at transactional level

    and satisfaction is viewed as an attitude. Dabholkar et al. (1996)21reported that the service

    quality divisions are related to overall service quality and or customer satisfaction. Fornell

    et al., (1996)22 expressed that satisfaction is a consequence of service quality.

    To another extent, other researches suggested that in service field service quality

    and customer satisfaction (also called the construct) are separate but distinct constructs.

    (Boulding et. al., 1993)23. They argued that service quality has specific dimensions

    judgments while customer satisfaction can be resulted from any dimension, whether or not

    it is quality related. They report that expectations for quality are based on ideals or

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    perceptions of excellence, whereas customer satisfaction assessment comprise by non-

    quality issue such as needs, equity, perceptions of fairness etc.,

    From the review of literature it can be inferred that performance of service delivery

    can result in level of customer satisfaction.

    3. Theoretical Framework

    3.1 Instruments to measure Service Quality

    3.1.1 SERVQUAL model

    The service sector is expanding at an increasing rate and is becoming intensely

    competitive (Chen, Gupta and Rom, 199424). As such, service quality becomes pivotal

    across all business units of an organization. Corporate now pay appropriate attention tocontinuously revisit their service quality system in order to improve approaches their

    organizations using to serve customers. However, defining and measuring quality in

    services might be difficult due to intangible nature of service offering. SERVQUAL model

    developed by extensive research by Parasuraman et. al. (1985, 1988 and 1991) has been

    carried out widely to measure service quality in many sectors.

    Early research done by Parasuraman et al. realized that determinants of Perceived

    service quality comprise of 02 elements of expected service and perceived service. This

    discrepancy is illustrated by Service Quality Gap. This gap is displayed in A Gaps

    Model in Service Quality as follows:

    Gap 1: This gap appears when there is discrepancy between Customer

    Expectations and Management Perceptions of Customer Expectations.

    Reasons creating this gap are because the servicing organizations dont have

    sufficient marketing research, or there is inadequate use of marketing

    research, lack of interaction between management and customers, or there is

    insufficient communication between contact employees and managers.

    Gap 2: appears when there is discrepancy between Management

    Perceptions of Customer Expectations and Service Quality Specifications.

    This gap exists when the company management is not committed to service

    quality. Or even when they are committed, but they lack of formal process

    to set up the service quality goals, and there is inadequate standardization of

    tasks to implement the promises. It also happens the managers dont have

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    the perception of infeasibility to the areas that customer expectations cant

    be met.

    Gap 3: occurs when there is differentiation between Service Quality

    Specifications and Service Delivery. This gap might be originally caused by

    lack of team work, poor employees, poor technology, lack of appropriate

    compensation system, role conflict among contact employees or role

    ambiguity among contact employees.

    Gap 4: happens when there is discrepancy between Service Delivery and

    External Communications to Customers. If a Sales person fails to

    communicate with customers the service quality properly, it may cause to

    create the gap. Poor advertising of the organization service quality also fail

    ways of customers approach. Big organizations are likely to commit this

    mistake if there are differences between polices and procedures across the

    branches and departments.

    Gap 5: exists when there is distinction between Customers Service

    Expectations and Customers Service Expectations. Parasuraman used this

    gap to measure service quality in his approach.Initially in their research, Parasuraman et.al. (1985) established a model based on

    dimensions of service quality that customers use to assess the service. There are 10

    potentially overlapping dimensions: tangibles, reliabilities, responsiveness,

    communication, creditability, Security, competence, courtesy, understanding/knowing the

    customer and access.25

    Tangibles: include the physical evidence of the service: physical facilities,

    appearance of personnel, tools or equipment used to provide the service,

    physical presentations of the service such as plastic ATM cards or bank

    statements.

    Reliabilities: involve consistency of performance dependability. It means

    that the firm performs the service right the first time. It also means that the

    firm honors its promises. Especially it involves first call resolution, and

    following up ATM card delivery on designated time to customers.

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    Responsiveness: concerns the willingness or readiness of employees to

    provide service. It involves timeliness of service: emailing forms of

    registration to customers immediately, calling the customer back quickly, or

    giving prompt service (cooperating with other personnel quickly to solve

    customers problems)

    Communication: means keeping customers informed in language they can

    understand and listen to them. It may mean that the company has to adjust

    its language for different consumers increasing the level of sophistication

    with a well-educated customer and speaking and plainly with a novice. It

    involves speaking English with foreign customers, explaining the service

    correctly and assuring the consumers that problem will be handled right

    away by authorized persons.

    Creditability: involves trustworthiness, believability, and honesty. It

    involves having the customers best interests at heart. Contributing to

    credibility includes company name, reputation, and personal characteristic

    of contact agents.

    Security: is the freedom from danger, risk or doubt. It involves physicalsafety while doing transaction at ATM, or financial security (Can I trace

    where my credit card was used) and confidentiality ( Are my dealings with

    the bank private?)

    Competence: means possession of the required skills and knowledge to

    perform the service. It involves knowledge and skill of the agents, and

    research capabilities of the organization.

    Courtesy: involves politeness, respect, consideration, and friendliness ofagents, their sweet voices and helpful attitudes.

    Understanding/knowing the customer: involves making the efforts to

    understand the customers needs. It involves: learning the customers

    specific requirements, providing individualized attention ( say customer

    name while communicating) or recognizing the regular customers

    Access: involves approachability and ease of contact. It means: the service

    is easily accessible by telephone (lines are not busy and they do not put you

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    on hold), waiting time to receive service, convenient hours of operation,

    convenient location of service facility (location of bank branches, or ATM)

    This model was applicable to any servicing organization in any industry. There

    were intensive debate regarding this model, as noted by Babakus and Boller (1992) 26, there

    is a need to develop industry-specific measures of service quality. This is particularly

    important from a managerial perspective (Shemwell and Yavas, 1999)27. Because many of

    the questions in existing instruments (notably SERVQUAL batteries) intended to be

    applied across situations/services just do not apply in a specific context and force

    researchers to drastically alter the items (Babakus and Boller, 1992; Babakus and Mangold,

    1992; Carman, 1990; McAlexander et al., 1994). Thus, instead of taking an existinginstrument and trying to fit it to the context, a better approach is to develop an instrument

    specifically for the focal service. (Parasuraman et. al., 1988, 1990). Afterwards, the 10

    dimensions were reduced to five by:

    Tangibles: Appearance of physical facilities, equipment, personnel, and

    communication materials.

    Reliability: Ability to perform the promised service dependably and

    accurately. Responsiveness: Willingness to help customers and provide prompt

    service.

    Assurance: Knowledge and courtesy of employees and their ability to

    inspire trust and confidence.

    Empathy: Caring, individualized attention the firm provides its customers.

    In a speech given at University of Miami (2004), Parasuraman revised the

    SERVQUAL model items into 21- item scale that are covered in 5 dimensions thatcustomers can receive from specific servicing company.

    Reliability:

    1. Providing service as promised

    2. Dependability in handling customers service problems

    3. Performing services right the first time

    4. Providing service at promised time

    5. Keeping customers informed about when services will be performed

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    Responsiveness

    6. Prompt service to customers

    7. Willingness to help customers

    8. Readiness to respond to customers request

    Assurance

    9. Employees who instill confidence in customers

    10. Making customers feel safe in their transactions

    11. Employees who are consistently courteous

    12. Employees who have the knowledge to answer customer questions

    Empathy13. Giving customer individual attention

    14. Employees who deal with customers in a caring fashion

    15. Having the customers best interest at heart

    16. Employees who understand the needs of their customers

    Tangibles

    17. Modern equipment

    18. Visually appealing facilities

    19. Employees who have a neat, professional appearance

    20. Visually appealing materials associated with the service

    21. convenient business hours

    This 21 item-scale then will be adjusted according to the nature of call center of the

    banking industry to build research measurement scales in later chapter.

    3.2 Empirical studies

    Many empirical studies have been conducted to test SERVQUAL model in specific

    industries. In the banking industry, there were many researches done by Yavas et. al.

    (1997)28, Bahia and Nantel 2000; Lassaret. al., 2000; Duncan and Elliott, 2002; Jabnoun

    and Al-Tamimi, 2002; and Arasli et. al., 2005.

    In the call center industry the empirical research for SERVQUAL model appears to

    be scarce. Warren et.al. (2002)29 conducted a research to assess a case call center using

    SERVQUAL model. They found that as a customer never comes into contact with the

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    physical appearance of a call center, the area covered by the tangibles criteria does not

    apply. Via the telephone, the only dimension of tangible contact is customer service

    representatives (CSR) voice, which is extremely important in any encounter with a

    customer through telephone. It is not possible for the customer to evaluate the service level

    but the customer has to interact with other criteria. Responsiveness, reliability, assurance

    and empathy are all transmitted by CSRs voice and are dependent on CSRs

    communication skills.

    In another research, Upal M. (2008)30 applied SERVQUAL approach in evaluating

    customer satisfaction in telecommunication industry in Bangladesh. The traditional

    SERVQUAL five dimension model was adjusted into four dimension model. Thesedimensions are responsiveness, assurance, communication and discipline. The research

    showed that call center agents are vital to the success of any call center. Satisfied

    employees reinforce customer satisfaction, which in turn reinforced employee satisfaction.

    In addition to that, customers education in the service delivery process contributes to their

    satisfaction. Managerial orientation also is one of the major forces that drive customer

    satisfaction.

    This research is hoped to be the platform for discussing the issues on the service

    quality and customer satisfaction in the call center industry in Vietnam.

    4. Authors research model and research hypothesis

    4.2.1 Authors research model

    From the literature review of previous researches about interrelationship between

    service quality and customer satisfaction using SERVQUAL model, it seems that

    SERVQUAL approach is the most common method for measuring service quality. The

    current research designed a conceptual framework for measuring the service quality of the

    call center in ABBANK also using SERVQUAL model as follows:

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    Reliability

    Responsiveness

    Assurance

    Empathy

    Customer

    satisfaction

    H1

    H2

    H3

    H4

    H5

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    The model comprises of 5 independent components:

    Reliability describes the ability to answer questions to customers

    dependably and accurately.

    Responsiveness describes the willingness to help customers and provide

    prompt answers and helps at first-call attempt.

    Assurance describes the knowledge and courtesy of agents and their ability

    to inspire trust and confidence to customers through telephone.

    Empathy describes caring fashion, individualized attention call center

    agents provide customers.

    Tangible describes the appearance of telecommunication tools, operation

    hours, and call center physical present in their advertisement.

    And there is one dependent variable:

    Customer satisfaction describes the level of satisfaction that customer is

    experiencing with the services delivered by Call Center.

    4.2.2 Research hypothesis

    Hypothesis must be formulated in order to evaluate the level of satisfaction of the

    service provided by call center using above quality dimensions. It is noteworthy that these

    dimensions are interrelated and affect significantly on customer satisfaction.

    H1: There is a positive impact of reliability on customer satisfaction, which

    means that the more reliable customers feel about call center services, the

    more they are satisfied.

    H2: There is a positive impact of responsiveness on customer satisfaction,

    which means that the more responsive the call center is, the more satisfied

    customers feel.

    H3: There is a positive impact of assurance on customer satisfaction, which

    means that customers are satisfied about call center when they are assured

    about the services they receive.

    H4: There is a positive impact of empathy on customer satisfaction, which

    means that the more empathetic customers feel when interacting with the call

    center, the more they are satisfied.

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    H5: There is a positive impact of tangible dimension on customer

    satisfaction, which means that the more visual customers feel about the call

    center, the more they are satisfied.

    5. Introduction to An Binh Bank & Call Center

    5.1 General view of An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank

    Name: AN BINH COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK BANK

    Head Office: 170 Hai Ba Trung Street, Ward Da Kao, Dist 1, HCMC

    An Binh Bank (ABBANK) is one of the leading commercial joint-stock banks and

    among top ten largest commercial banks in terms of charter capital in Vietnam.

    After 15 years of development since its establishment in 1993, ABBANK has made major

    breakthrough over the last 3 years.

    ABBANKs current charter capital exceeds VND 2,700 billion and its national

    network of nearly 70 branches and sub-branches covers 20 cities and provinces as of 2008.

    Through its distribution channel, ABBANK provided products and services to thousand of

    corporate and ten thousands of consumers. Over the past 2 years, ABBANKs total assets,

    incomes and profit kept growing more than 300%.

    ABBANK currently aims at 3 categories of customers: corporate, individuals and

    investors:

    Corporate banking: ABBANK provides corporate with all-in financial-banking

    products and services such as loans, factoring, guarantee services, import/export financing,

    account services, trade services

    Consumer banking: ABBANK provides individuals with fast and complete credit

    products as well as flexible savings products:

    - Installment loan for house/land purchase or house renovation;

    - Installment loan for house/land purchase with tenor up to 30 years

    - Life insurance for consumer;

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    - Installment loan for car purchase; unsecured loan for consumption;

    - Installment loan for manufacturing; working capital financing; flexible secured loan for

    consumption;

    - YOUsaving products: interest rate based on actual deposit days, escalating savings, and

    payment services, internal and external remittance

    Investor banking: ABBANK provides individual and corporate investors with

    authorized services as well as investment consultancy. ABBANK particularly provides

    corporate investors with services such as financial consulting, consulting and guarantee onbond issuance, acting as agent of bond issue.

    ABBANKs competitive features are recognized by the provision of flexible,

    effective and safe financial solutions with friendly service; focus on customers needs and

    satisfaction in the development of any business models and organizational structure;

    ensuring of excellent and consistent service delivery based on standard technology and

    process as well as skilled staffs.

    5.2 Introduction to ABBANK call center

    In March 2008, the call center of ABBANK was established with the purpose to

    maintain and develop customer care service.

    According to the decision 225/QD-HDQT-07, call center was set up in March of

    2008 with the following objectives:

    - Consulting about banking products and banking services of BA BANK to clients through

    telephone, email, fax- Responding and handling directly information requested by customers or transferring to

    authorised departments.

    - Responding and handling directly payment transaction and services or transferring to

    authorized departments

    - Implementing telemarketing about banking products and services to individual clients.

    Call center performance statistics from Mar 2008-Jun 2009

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    Endnotes

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