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Chapter 5
CUSTOMER
PERCEPTIONS OF
SERVICE
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Objectives for Chapter 5:
Customer Perceptions of Service
Provide you with definitions and understanding
of customer satisfaction and service quality
Show that service encounters or the moments
of truth are the building blocks of customer
perceptions
Highlight strategies for managing customer
perceptions of service
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Customer perception
Customers perception is relative to
expectation.
Evaluation of service quality are in constant
flux.
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Service Quality
The customers judgment of overall
excellence of the service provided inrelation to the quality that was expected.
Process and outcome quality are both
important.
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SERVQUAL Attributes
RELIABILITY
RESPONSIVENESS
ASSURANCE
EMPATHY
TANGIBLES
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Reliability
Ability to perform promised service
Promise of core service attribute
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Responsiveness
Willingness to help and prompt service
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Assurance
Firms ability to inspire Trust and confidence
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Empathy
Caring and individualized attention to
customers
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Tangibles
Physical facility, equipment written
materials
Important dimension for hospitality service
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Outcomes of
Customer Satisfaction
Increased customer retention
Positive word-of-mouth communications
Increased revenues
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Figure 4-3
Relationship between Customer
Satisfaction and Loyalty in Competitive
Industries
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Very
dissatisfied
Dissatisfied Neither
satisfied nor
dissatisfied
Satisfied Very
satisfied
Satisfaction measure
Loyalty
(rete
ntion)
Source: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, The Service Profit Chain, (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1997), p. 83.
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The Five Dimensions of
Service Quality
Ability to perform the promised
service dependably and accurately.
Knowledge and courtesy ofemployees and their ability toconvey trust and confidence.
Physical facilities, equipment, andappearance of personnel.
Caring, individualized attention thefirm provides its customers.
Willingness to help customers andprovide prompt service.
Tangibles
Reliability
Responsiveness
Assurance
Empathy
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Exercise to
Identify Service AttributesIn groups of five, choose a services industry and spend 10 minutes brainstorming
specific requirements of customers in each of the five service quality dimensions.
Be certain the requirements reflect the customers point of view.
Reliability:
Assurance:
Tangibles:
Empathy:
Responsiveness:
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Perceived Value
Overall assessment of Utility
What they receive and what is given
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Factors influence Customer Perception
Service Encounter
Evidence of Service
Image
Price
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The Service Encounter
occurs any time the customer interacts with the
firm
Vivid impression is developed from experiences
with service Encounters
*vivid- having the clarity and freshness of
immediate experience.
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Check-In
Request Wake-Up Call
Checkout
Bellboy Takes to Room
Restaurant Meal
Figure 4-4
A Service Encounter
Cascade for a Hotel Visit
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Common Themes in Critical
Service Encounters Research
Recovery: Adaptability:
Spontaneity:Coping:
Employee Responseto Service Delivery
System Failure
Employee Responseto Customer Needs
and Requests
Employee Responseto Problem Customers
Unprompted andUnsolicited EmployeeActions and Attitudes
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The Service Encounter
Negative Experience with Any One of the Encounters may
lead to Negative Overall Evaluation of the Service
First Impression lead to successive positive feeling
*unprompted- proceeding from natural feeling .
* unsolicited- not asked for or unasked.
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The Service Encounter
All the Encounters are equally Important
Composite of Positive Experiences develops Positive Image
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The Service Encounter
Certain Encounters are Key to Customer Satisfaction
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The Service Encounter
Types of Encounter:
Remote Encounter
Phone Encounter
Face to face Encounter
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Evidence of Service
Types of Encounter:
People
Process
Physical Evidence