40 Abstract— This study tries to identify the most important dimension and to examine the level of service quality, expectation and perception of the external customers towards the Malaysian public services. Ten SERVQUAL instrument was distributed to each 300 public organizations throughout Malaysia. From 992 copies of usable questionnaire, the overall service quality is quite good. It is found...

This paper proposes a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to measurement and benchmarking of service quality. Dealing with measurement of overall service quality of multiple units with SERVPERF as multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM), the proposed approach utilizes DEA, in particular, the pure output model without inputs. The five dimensions of SERVPERF are considered as outputs of the...

Today, training has become a common activity in all enterprises in order to enrich four important components of their business environment such as technology, quality improvement, product development and customer satisfaction. The most important goal of the training is to inculcate the essential skills, which are required for employees to improve the productivity and thereby enhancing the aware...

This paper is motivated by the need to provide the Information Systems (IS) function with a model of service quality that is theoretically sound and conceptually complete. At present, no such model exists. This means IS researchers and practitioners are forced to use models, and associated measures, developed in other disciplines. One such measure, SERVQUAL, is commonly used although it has bee...

A community development association (CDA) has been established in every village or neighborhood in Taiwan. The purpose of CDAs is to enhance residents’ living quality. The services provided by CDAs should fulfill and even exceed residents’ expectations, and the performance of these services should be approved by the residents. When their expectations are not met, residents become dissatisfied w...

Asal usul SERVQUAL Instrumen ini awalnya dibangun oleh para peneliti di bidang pemasaran untuk mengukur kualitas pelayanan secara umum, karena pada saat itu kualitas pelayanan menjadi salah satu fokus ayng sering dibahas dalam pemasaran. Instrumen ini diperkenalkan oleh Zeithaml, Parasuraman & Berry dalam buku mereka yang berjudul Delivering Quality Service; Balancing Customer Perceptions and E...

To gain competitive advantage in a fast changing environment, the higher education institution (HEI) must continuously adjust the strategies to that environment. One important strategy is how to determine appropriate practical actions based on what students really need and want. Despite the abundance of research on service quality management, there is no universal consensus on how best to deter...

BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious public health problem in Taiwan and the world. The most effective, affordable treatments involve early prevention/detection/intervention, requiring screening. Successfully implementing CKD programs requires good patient participation, affected by patient perceptions of screening service quality. Service quality improvements can help make such...