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The expected service and the perceived service sometimes may not be equal, thus leaving a gap. The service quality model or the ‘GAP model’ developed in 1985, highlights the main requirements for delivering high service quality. It identifies five ‘gaps’ that cause unsuccessful delivery.
When perceptions exceed expectations then service quality is high. The model of service quality identifies five gaps that may cause customers to experience poor service quality. In this model, gap 5 is the service quality gap and is the only gap that can be directly measured. In other words, the SERVQUAL instrument was specifically designed to ...
This approach conceptualizes service quality as a gap between consumer's expectations of a forthcoming service encounter and their actual perceptions of that encounter. [102] Accordingly, service quality can be represented by the equation: [103] SQ = P − E. where SQ is service quality P is the individual's perceptions of given service delivery
The service recovery paradox (SRP) is a situation in which a customer thinks more highly of a company after the company has corrected a problem with their service, compared to how they would regard the company if non-faulty service had been provided. The main reason behind this thinking is that successful recovery of a faulty service increases ...
Perceived Quality: the quality attributed to a good or service based on indirect measures. Some of the dimensions are mutually reinforcing, although others are not: improvement in one may be secured at the expense of others. Understanding the trade-offs desired by customers among these dimensions can help build a competitive advantage.
Service design is the activity of planning and arranging people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality, and the interaction between the service provider and its users. Service design may function as a way to inform changes to an existing service or create a new service entirely.
Customers recognize that quality is an important attribute in products and services, and suppliers recognize that quality can be an important differentiator between their own offerings and those of competitors (the quality gap). In the past two decades this quality gap has been gradually decreasing between competitive products and services.
The questionnaire, SERVQUAL, measures 'GAP 5. All it can tell the analyst is the size of the service quality gap and the direction of the service quality gap (+ve or -ve). The questionnaire cannot tell you why there are service quality problems. The model is designed to help analysts search for possible causes of the problem.