scholarly journals DRIVERS, INHIBITORS AND IMPLICATIONS OF EFFECTIVE COMPLAINT MANAGEMENT AMONG HEALTHCARE INSTITUTION IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY: A CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA HOSPITAL.

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Joseph Acheampong ◽  
Kwame Domfeh
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Customer Retention ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Complaint Management

Purpose: Complaint Management (CM) is significant in improving the quality of healthcare service delivery. There is a dearth of knowledge regarding CM in healthcare service in Ghana. This paper aims at exploring the drivers, inhibitors, implications and influence of leadership on effective CM in healthcare service delivery. Methodology: A qualitative methodology was used. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 purposively selected informants. Data were transcribed and analysed thematically. Findings: The evidence suggests that there are some notable drivers, inhibitors, and implications of CM in healthcare service delivery. The study found that customer complaint, customer satisfaction, customer feedback, customer loyalty, customer retention, quality assurance, competitive advantage, compensation, culture, and speedy recovery are the drivers to effective CM in healthcare service delivery. However, regarding the factors that inhibit effective CM in healthcare service delivery, the study found insufficient skilled personnel, inadequate technology, lack of infrastructure, inadequate resources/funds and lack of oversight responsibility or control, lack of accountability, unresponsiveness, and unacceptance of mistakes/complaint. The study provides insight that effective CM has significant implications on customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, customer retention/commitment, institutional reputation/image, organisational performance, profitability, and good staff attitude. The results of the research corroborate the perception that leadership style influences the effectiveness of CM in healthcare service delivery. Recommendation: The study strongly recommend the establishment of CM department with the requisite logistics and accessories to promote effective handling of complaint. Additionally, it endorses training programmes on building strategies to enhance effective CM which will go a long way toward allowing service providers to form strong emotional bonds with their patients. The focus of such a program should be on instilling in frontline staff who deal with disgruntled/dissatisfied customers the necessity of adopting the study's findings into their complaint handling process.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of Service Quality on Customers and Operators: Empirical Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Mohammad Sultan Ahmad Ansari ◽  
Jamal Ahmad Farooquie ◽  
Said Gattoufi
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Service Delivery System ◽  
Telecom Service ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Original Equipment Manufacturers

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty and Operational Performance of telecom service industry in Sultanate of Oman. It also investigate how technology adds value to service delivery system and improvement of Service Quality. The empirical data were collected by administering 1,450 questionnaires and out of which 888 completed and usable responses were retrieved. The study is first of kind that evaluated well-established chain of service i.e. services provided by Original Equipment Manufacturers to Telecom Service Providers and further service provided by the Telecom Service Providers to the End Users. The feedback was taken on forward and backward chain to evaluate comprehensive service chain, instead of evaluating an individual chain i.e. Service provided by Original Equipment Manufacturers to Telecom Service Providers or vice versa or from Telecom Service Providers to the End Users. Questionnaires feedback was taken from comprehensive chain of services, i.e. forward and backward chain feedback was considered. Research findings suggest that technological support would improve service delivery system and service organizations shall put special emphasize on Service Quality for achieving critical success, which would improve overall Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty, Operational Performance and Firm Profitability.

scholarly journals E-WALLET SERVICE INNOVATION, SERVICE DELIVERY, AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION ON CUSTOMER LOYALTY WITHIN SHOPEEPAY IN INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
Devona Valencia ◽  
Chrisanty Victoria Layman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Competitive Industry ◽  
Data Collection Technique

Abstract- Indonesia's fast-growing digital payment industry is encouraging the emergence of new players. In a highly competitive industry and accompanied by COVID-19, e-wallet service providers compete to attract consumers and seller partners to use their services. This study aims to examine the effect of service innovation (SI), service delivery (SD), and customer satisfaction (CS) on customer loyalty (CL) of ShopeePay e-wallet users in Indonesia, especially during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study uses a quantitative method with non-probability sampling, namely judgment sampling, in which respondents are users of ShopeePay e-wallet service in Indonesia. Samples analyzed was 303 respondents with questionnaire data collection technique. The results shows that SI and SD mediated by CS, and CS itself has a positive and significant effect on CL of ShopeePay users in Indonesia. These findings indicate that ShopeePay Indonesia needs to develop SI and SD that meets customer needs and expectations to achieve CL. Keywords: Delivery; Indonesian e-wallet; Innovation; Loyalty; Satisfaction

Electronic Customer Relationship Management (E-CRM) and Customer Loyalty

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the impact of E-CRM on customer loyalty with the mediating effect of customer satisfaction in the banking industry. Customer satisfaction is important for loyalty because when the customers are satisfied with the services offered by their service providers, the relationship gets stronger which further leads to positive word-of-mouth. The data was collected using purposive sampling from 836 banks’ customers who were using E-CRM services and the data was analyzed using structural equation model (SEM) through AMOS. The results revealed that E-CRM and customer satisfaction had a significant positive impact on customer loyalty and also customer satisfaction partially mediated the relationship between E-CRM and customer loyalty. This study would offer useful acumen to both academicians and marketers and would help the bank managers to improve the quality of the services provided to their customers.

Service Quality Dimensions and Customers' Satisfactions in Mobile Communications

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
S. Sakthivel Rani ◽  
S. Kannan
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Relative Effect ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
The World ◽  
Switching Barriers

Objective - The world is moving towards continuous and ubiquitous availability of information. Entry of private operators in 1990's, competition has caused prices to drop and calls across India are one of the cheapest in the world. Technological advances combined with forces of globalization resulted in the transformation of the economy, industries, markets and customers resulting in a connected knowledge economy, borderless global economy, globalizing, covering and consolidating industries, fragmenting and frictionless markets and active, connected, informed and demanding customers. The objective of this research is to ascertain the constructs like customer satisfaction towards the mobile phone service providers, switching barrier and the customer loyalty factors. Methodology/Technique - Respondents in the study are the customers who use mobile phones. Primary data were collected with the help of the specially designed questionnaire, which was administered to the mobile users. The final questionnaire was pre-tested on 40 respondents and the coefficient values are all above .8 thus meeting Nunnaly's recommendation of greater than 0.7 as the acceptable reliability level. The overall alpha value was 0.8 and the instrument consists of customer satisfaction regarding the mobile service providers, which includes factors like price (5 items, 0.816), network coverage (4 items, 0.795), customer service (5 items, 0.852) and usage (8 items, 0.884). Switching barriers factors consists of 28 items like credibility factors (8 items, 0.863), congruency factors (7 items, 0.816), switching cast (8 items, 0.871), and value (5 items, 0.900). Final part of the instrument includes 17 customer loyalty factors like trust (7 items, 0.858), commitment (4 items, 0.848), word of mouth (3 items, 0.779) and cooperation (3 items, 0.691). Findings - Gender, location of the customers and service providers has a significant association with level of customer satisfaction. Gender and occupation have a significant association with level of customer switching barriers. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze the main effect and the adjustment effect of those switching barrier factors and the relative effect. The contribution is that this study reviews theoretically and verifies empirically the relationship and mechanism between the customer retention and the switching barrier. Type of Paper - Empirical Keywords: Customer satisfaction factors; switching barrier factors; Customer loyalty factors.

Healthscape role towards customer satisfaction in private healthcare

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 600-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debajani Sahoo ◽  
Tathagata Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Private Healthcare

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the motives that enforce consumers to find out the major determinants that frame healthscape in private healthcare service that leads to their satisfaction in a developing country like India. Design/methodology/approach – The generic motive dimensions are identified using an exploratory factor analysis. Next the reliability and validity of the factors are established followed by regression analysis using SPSS 20.0 s/w. Findings – This paper identifies six healthscape motives in the private healthcare sector named as service personnel conduct and cleanliness, service delivery and facilities, ambience, location and look, appealing decoration, and upgraded safety service, out of which only service delivery, ambience, location, and decorations contribute the most to build customer satisfaction as per their significance value. Research limitations/implications – The various dimensions of healthcare motives should be viewed as the levers of improving hospitals’ service quality in the minds of its present and future customers. This finding can offer valuable insight to the forthcoming as well as existing developer who are planning to have their healthcare service presence in India. Practical implications – This study suggests some important strategic guidelines for service positioning and market segmentation of healthcare services as per customer requirements. In the recent past, availing services from hospitals were purely utilitarian in nature. Customers were more inclined to get proper and timely services and cared more about the service quality of the healthcare service provider. Originality/value – This paper is among the few works done on understanding private healthcare service delivery process in India and customer satisfaction level from those Hospitals. This study addresses the gap by identifying a set of dimensions that are relevant to customers for a unique healthcare experience.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Effect of Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction on the Repurchase Intention, Word of Mouth and Customer Retention for Party Equipment Rental ˋˋSuyono" in Surabaya

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muchammad Zaenal Arifin Rahmatulloh ◽  
Tina Melinda
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Customer Retention ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Repurchase Intention ◽  
Positive Effect

The purpose of this study was to provide an understanding of how service quality and customer satisfaction influence the repurchase intention, word of mouth and customer retention at the party equipment rental company “Suyono”in Surabaya. A survey was conducted with 70 service users of “Suyono”. The study used a quantitative approach to explain the causal relationship between the variables. The researcher selected the participants individually. The Partial Least Square analysis technique was used, assisted by the Smart PLS 3.0 application. The results of this study showed that the quality of service had a significant positive effect on customer satisfaction and customer retention; and customer satisfaction had a significant positive effect on repurchase intention and word of mouth. Customer satisfaction did not have a significant effect on customer retention. Therefore, service providers are strongly advised to focus on improving service quality and customer satisfaction to increase customer retention. These results can be applied by companies to increase repurchase intentions, word of mouth and customer retention, especially companies in the service sector. Keywords: service quality, customer satisfaction, repurchase intention, word of mouth

scholarly journals Building customer relationships as retention strategy in the South African domestic passenger airline industry

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Mostert ◽  
Christine De Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
South African ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Airline Industry ◽  
Customer Retention ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
The South ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Domestic Airlines

Organisations are increasingly focusing on building long-term relationships with customers, thereby increasing their probability for success by offering customers higher levels of satisfaction, increasing customer loyalty, and ultimately retaining customers. Airlines in particular can benefit from retaining customers as the airline industry is characterised by fierce competition and many airlines are finding it difficult to survive against the backdrop of enormous challenges in the past decade, including the significant decline in demand for air travel together with rising costs and the worldwide economic downturn. This study investigates the effect which a strategy by airlines of building relationships with customers has on customer satisfaction, loyalty, and ultimately customer retention. The effect of service failures on customers' relationships with airlines are also considered as a negative experience could results in customers defecting to competitors. A questionnaire, comprising six sections, was specifically compiled to determine customer retention in the South African domestic passenger airline industry. Data were collected by trained fieldworkers from OR Tambo International Airport by means of a non-probability convenience sampling method from 324 passengers flying with the various domestic airlines. Findings indicate that most respondents were satisfied with the airlines' overall service; respondents who formed relationships with domestic airlines were more loyal toward the airlines; and the relationships of respondents who were satisfied with airlines' service recovery efforts were either strengthened or unchanged. The findings from this study support findings from international studies by providing a unique South African perspective on the effect of a strategy of building relationships with customers on their satisfaction, loyalty and ultimately retention. It can therefore be recommended that the organisations competing in the South African service sector, and specifically the domestic airline industry, make special efforts to build relationships with existing customers, rather than to continually try to acquire new customers. This strategy could result in a higher probability of success by increasing customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, and ultimately customer retention.

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