The Gaps Model of Service Quality Chapter2-1 2 The Customer Gap – Gap 5 The Provider Gaps: Gap 1 – The Listening Gap not knowing what customers expect Gap 2 – The Design and Standards Gap not having the right service designs and standards Gap 3 – The Performance Gap not delivering to service standards Gap 4 – The Communication Gap not matching performance to promises Putting It All Together: Closing the Gaps McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2009
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The Gap model of service quality was developed by Parasuraman‚ Berry and Zeithaml (1985)‚ and more recently described in Zeithaml and Bitner (2003). It has served as a framework for research in services marketing‚ including hospitality marketing‚ for over two decades. The model identifies four specific gaps leading to a fifth overall gap between customers’ expectations and perceived service. The five gaps Customers have expectations for service experiences and they use them to measure
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History of the Gaps Model The gaps model of service quality was first developed by a group of authors at Texas A&M and North Carolina Universities‚ in 1985. Based on exploratory studies of service such as executive interviews and focus groups in four different service businesses‚ the authors proposed a conceptual model of service quality indicating that consumers’ perception toward a service quality depends on the gaps existing in organization – consumer environments. Theory of the Gaps Model Perceived
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Gaps model of Service Quality The success of 7-eleven The Gaps model of service quality was first developed by Parasuraman‚ Berry and Zeithaml in 1985 and more recently described in Zeithml and Bitner in 2003. The model identifies four spectfic gaps leading to a fifth overall gap between customers’ expectations and perceived service. Knowledge gap The first gap may occur when management identify the customer’s expectation inaccurately. When the customer expectation has difference with the management
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Gaps Model of Service Quality The 4 gaps in the Gaps Model are knowledge gap‚ standards gap‚ delivery gap and communication gap. Knowledge gap is the difference between customers’ expectations and the retailer’s perception of these customer’s expectations. This occurs when a person do not know what the customers expect or want. By applying knowledge gap to H&M retail store‚ it refers to the salesperson not knowing what their customers expect/want. For example‚ a customer visiting the H&M
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received by Lecturer: Table of Contents 1 Organization – AirAsia 3 1.1 Overview 3 1.2 Products and Services offered 4 1.3 Channels of distribution 4 1.4 Sales and Marketing 5 1.5 Organization Structure 7 1.6 Market Share 8 1.7 SWOT Analysis 9 2 IT for Managers 10 3 E-Business and E-Commerce 11 3.1 Uses of E-Commerce in AIR ASIA 11 3.2 Benefits of E-commerce to Air Asia 12 4 Data Management 13 5 Organizational ISs 15 6 Enterprise Systems 17 7 Management Decision Support 19
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Review of the GAPS model of Service Quality using a personal example: Service Name: Bell Essential Plus Internet Service Existence of a Gap: Yes Expected Service (description of expectation): The expectation was (without reading the fine print‚ which is obscure and not indicative of essential information for new customers) that upon subscribing to Bell Essential Plus I’d be able to download media content and browse the internet at a speed of “5mbps”. Perceived Service (description
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Measuring Perceived Service Quality Using s e rv q ua l: A Case Study of the Croatian Hotel Industry ´ s u z ana m ar k ovi c Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija‚ Croatia s an j a r as p o r Polytechnic of Rijeka‚ Croatia The purpose of the study is to examine customers’ perceptions of service quality in the Croatian hotel industry. The aim is to assess the perceived service quality of hotel attributes and to determine the factor structure of service quality perception. A modified
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practical issues (both pro and con) with using the Gaps Model of Service Quality to understand and manage service quality? Servicers in the markets always face the challenge from the judgment of service quality by customers. Service quality‚ generally is taken satisfy customers into account‚ so that it is a critical factor from the perceptions of customer. It is the primary goal to providing a high quality service and customer satisfaction of the service industry currently (Huang‚ Huang & Chen 2003)
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Quality of the service is the degree of conformance of all the relevant features and characteristics of service to all the aspects of the consumers’ needs limited by the price and delivery s/he will accept. Quality can be viewed from two perspectives: Internal quality based on conformance to specifications External quality based on customer-perceived quality Gain competitive advantage‚ maintain loyalty Increase value (may permit higher margins) Improve profits Expected Service
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