The Effects of Telecommunication Service Quality Dimensions on Customer Satisfaction in Kathmandu Valley

Telecommunications have become a vital tool for the success of any business. The 21st-century telecommunication business has been described by hi-tech competition, which has brought attention to customer satisfaction. The study aimed to identify major influential dimensions that affect customer satisfaction. It was accompanied by a descriptive and causal research design and used a structured questionnaire as a survey instrument of the service quality (SERVQUAL) model. The population of this research covered all customers of the Telecommunication industry located at Kathmandu valley, and the sample considered 400 customers through convenience sampling techniques. The survey questionnaire was set in three sections with 38 questions of various types to collect data. The result showed a noteworthy strong positive relationship between service quality dimensions and customer satisfaction. It also revealed security was the major influential dimension of customer satisfaction, followed by tangibles, assurance, and empathy. The finding of the study helps all telecommunication industries to enhance service quality and develop a strategy to increase customer satisfaction and value. Hence, it infers that security, tangibles, assurance, and empathy increase the customer's satisfaction in telecommunications services. Overall service quality dimensions are commonly considered as crucial features of customer satisfaction.

A Look at Collaborative Service Provision: Case for Cosmetic Surgery Medical Tourism at Korea for Chinese Patients

Consumers admiring the beauty standards of other countries are approaching cosmetic surgery medical tourism. This study examines the roles of hospitals and facilitating agents as the main entities of cosmetic surgery medical tourism. 334 Chinese patients who underwent cosmetic surgery in Korea were collected and structural equation modeling is used to analyze the data. The results show that a hospital’s service quality in terms of tangibles, assurance, and empathy affect customers’ attitudes toward medical tourism for cosmetic surgery, which in turn, influences satisfaction with medical tourism. More importantly, facilitating agents’ service quality moderates the effects of hospitals’ service quality dimensions on service satisfaction. Findings extend the existing literature on medical tourism by identifying the roles of hospitals and facilitating agents to enhance customers’ attitudes and satisfaction with respect to collaborative service provision. Moreover, this research provides the first empirical evidence for the facilitating agents’ role in determining satisfaction with medical tourism.

Kualitas Pelayanan Staf Front Office Hotel Di Bali

This reseach was conducted by using the theory of service quality dimensions from Zeithaml-Parasuraman-Berry (1996). Data obtained by distributing 100 questionnaires to Japanese tourists on August 2019. The variable created refers to the role of the front office clerk from Bagiono (2012). Based on SPSS calculations, the accuracy of this research model is 73% at an error rate of 5%. From the results of data processing it is known that the average value of the service quality of front office staff at star hotels in Bali is 4.11 (good). But there are still indicators that are not good, that is, an indicator of Japanese language ability, with an average value of 3.23. Based on the results of exploratory factor analysis of 31 variables, found 7 factors forming the quality of front office staff services, 1) responsiveness with a value (13,916), 2) empathy (2,355), 3) reliability (1,513), 4) tangible (1,486) , 5) assurance (1.29), 6) friendly (1,220), and 7) communication (1,140). The biggest factor influencing the satisfaction of Japanese tourists towards the quality of front office staff services is the responsiveness factor while the lowest factor is the communication factor.

Service Quality and Client’s Satisfaction: A Case Study among Employees at a Government Agency in Kota Samarahan towards Counter Services in Urban Transformation Centre (UTC) Kuching

The study of service quality and clients’ satisfaction has been used by organisations to deliver better services to their clients. While many studies have been done on this topic from the perspective of the public towards the government service, there were few emphases from the perspective of the government servants (G2G) towards the government services offered by other government agencies. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between service quality and clients’ satisfaction among employees at a government agency towards counter services at Urban Transformation Centre (UTC) Kuching, Sarawak. The study includes all five elements of Service Quality Dimensions (SERVQUAL) which were Tangible, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, and Empathy. This study includes all employees of a government agency in Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. Questionnaires were distributed to respondents through Google Form with a returned rate of 88%. It was found that empathy and responsiveness variables had a strong and positive correlation with Clients’ Satisfaction while Assurance, Reliability, and Tangibility had a moderate and positive correlation with Clients’ Satisfaction. These findings implied that clients were more satisfied with services that were handled with care and discretion as well as quickly resolving unexpected issues thus providing insights to government agencies to improve their services. Keywords: Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, Empathy

M-shopping service quality dimensions and their effects on customer trust and loyalty: an empirical study

PurposeThe present study seeks to identify the salient mobile shopping (m-shopping) service quality dimensions as perceived by mobile shoppers (m-shoppers) and examines the linkages between the derived m-shopping service quality dimensions, customer trust and customer loyalty.Design/methodology/approachThe research instrument is developed based upon the mostly validated measures of prior studies. A pretest of the questionnaire is conducted to assess the content validity of the measurement scales. An online survey is used to collect the required data. We employ structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze data collected from 286 m-shoppers.FindingsWe identify five key m-shopping service quality dimensions: responsiveness, personalization, ease of use, aesthetics and perceived risk based on an extensive review of relevant literature. The SEM results show that all the five m-shopping service quality dimensions significantly impact, directly and/or indirectly, customer loyalty. Moreover, the results show that trust plays a partial mediating role in the effects of responsiveness and personalization on loyalty; a full mediating role in the effects of aesthetics and perceived risk on loyalty and no mediating role in the effect of ease of use on loyalty.Practical implicationsMobile retailers (m-retailers) can use the quality measurement tool developed in this study to detect service quality weaknesses and strengths. Based on their quality assessment, m-retailers can effectively allocate corporate resources to the important service quality attributes uncovered by this study, thereby improving their overall service quality performance and in turn expanding their loyal customer base.Originality/valuePrior studies have demonstrated that service quality and customer trust play a pivotal role in enhancing customer loyalty in both offline and online settings. Unfortunately, no research has empirically examined the relationships between service quality dimensions, trust and loyalty in the context of m-shopping. Therefore, a major contribution of this study is to address this research gap and add knowledge to the limited body of post-adoption m-shopping research.

Impact of student Trust, and Positive Word of Mouth, as Mediator variables, between the dimensions of the Quality of E-learning and Student Satisfaction at King Khalid University: أثر ثقة الطلاب وكلمة الفم الإيجابية كمتغيرات وسيطة بين أبعاد جودة التعلم الإلكتروني ورضا الطلاب بجامعة الملك خالد

This study aims to test the overall satisfaction of the beneficiary students with the quality of e-learning service at King Khalid University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. More specifically, this study investigates "the effect of the variables of an e-learning service quality dimensions, which include six dimensions on an overall students' satisfaction variable as a dependent variable, in addition to the two variables of student trust, and Positive Word of Mouth, which were used as mediator variables. The descriptive and analytical approach was used in this study, and a total of 729 copies of a questionnaire were obtained for the analyses which was representing the study population that consisted of all students at King Khalid University. So, this study tested the relationships between the variables, in purpose of testing the quality of measurements, as well as the study hypotheses testing. The results obtained from the analysis provided support for the theoretical model of the study, and confirmed the existence of a statistically significant impact relationship between the most variables, as well as The results showed that the positive word of mouth variable also mediates the relationship between students' trust and their overall satisfaction with the e-learning service at King Khalid University. Based on the results of the study, the theoretical and practical implications of the results of the study were discussed, in addition to providing recommendations and suggestions for future studies.

Analysis of the Effect of Service Quality Dimensions on Customer Loyalty through Perceived Value, Image, Consumption Emotion and Customer Satisfaction on Shangri-La Hotel Customers in Surabaya

The growth of the hospitality industry in Indonesia shows a significant number. In this case requires the company to be able to meet customer needs and adjust customer desires in the overnight process so that the company must be able to detect what the needs and desires of its customers are. Therefore, the presence of Shangri-La Hotel Surabaya is very influential in the development of the hotel industry, especially in Surabaya. This study aims to analyze the effect of Service Quality dimensions on Customer Loyalty through Perceived Value, Image, Consumption Emotion and Customer Satisfaction to the Shangri-La hotel customers in Surabaya. The sample used in this study is 250 respondents. For processing and analyzing data in this study, namely by using Amos version 22.0 as software for data processing. This study has 12 hypotheses and all of them have significant results.