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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 ...
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.
SERVQUAL or RATER is a service-quality framework that has been incorporated into customer-satisfaction surveys (e.g., the revised Norwegian Customer Satisfaction Barometer [31]) to indicate the gap between customer expectations and experience.
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.
The diagnostic value of the model accounts at least, in part, for the instrument's continuing currency in service quality research. [104] [105] [106] The five dimensions of service quality. The model's developers also devised a research instrument, called SERVQUAL, to measure the size and direction of service quality problems (i.e. gap 5). [107]
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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.
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