WorksheetsSQM 106
Total questions: 105
Worksheet time: 53mins
Customer satisfaction
Service standards
Material capacity
Brand image
Management experience
Competitor performance
Internal capability
Customer wants and needs
GAP 1
GAP 2
GAP 3
GAP 5
When demand increases
When competition intensifies
When existing service capacity has been optimized
When customer expectations rise
Customer satisfaction
Employee behavior
Complaint handling
Fair assessment from an observer
Customers feel delighted
Customers feel indifferent
Customers feel cheated because the service is not as promised
Customers increase loyalty
Complaint handling
Suggestion collection
Satisfaction surveys
Brand value
Improving communication skills
Enhancing problem-solving ability
Increasing empathy
Increase service prices
SWOT analysis
SERVPERF
Kano model
SERVQUAL model
Tangibles
Responsiveness
Trust
Empathy
Customer loyalty
Brand perception
Service recovery
Comparison between expectations and actual experience
Level of standardization
Degree of customization
Price
The Degree of invisibility of the product (intangibility)
Measure customer satisfaction
Evaluate competitors
Design service process flow
Transform customer wants into product/service design characteristics
Procedural errors
Behavioral errors
Product/service errors
Communication errors
Focus group
In-depth interview
Observation
SERVQUAL
Customized
Personalized
Flexible
Standardized
Increase capacity
Improve service quality
Improve staff skills
Offer price discounts
Service process
Customer emotions
Employee behavior
Recovery results received by the customer
Be highly standardized and complex
Be free of charge
Be used only internally
Must be able to operate flexibly and cost-effectively
A loyal long-term customer
A first-time customer
A customer who actively promotes the brand
Someone who takes advantage of service errors
Conducting external market surveys
Acting as mystery shoppers
Benchmarking competitors
Self-assessment of personal feelings
When customers are loyal
When recovery is fast
When the service is low-cost
When the error is deemed serious
Employees, customers, technology
Front office, back office, management
Input, transformation, output
Meeting interface, technical interface, support interface
More effective service process management
Creating a better customer experience
Service classification to illustrate service operations
All of the above (more effective service process management, creating a better customer experience, service classification to illustrate the nature of service operations)
Minimizing service costs
Improving employee satisfaction
Increasing market share
Meeting customer and organizational needs in terms of output and revenue
Mystery shopping
Customer satisfaction survey
Benchmarking competitors
Critical analysis of the incident
Measure employee performance
Control service costs
Analyze competitors
Measuring customer satisfaction
Price
Location
Technology
Staff
GAP 1
GAP 2
GAP 3
GAP 4
Customer loyalty
Market competition
Employee motivation
Management’s awareness of service quality
Organizational hierarchy
Internal accounting activities
IT infrastructure
The customer’s consumption process and sequence of actions
Increase service prices
Ignore the media
Improve internal training only
Adjust advertising content to better reflect the actual service
Maximizing employee productivity
Standardizing all services
Reducing customer complaints
Ensuring that customer and organizational needs are met in terms of output and revenue
GAP 1
GAP 2
GAP 3
GAP 4
A department that handles marketing only
A unit for employee training
A center for complaints only
This department receives feedback from customers and various other departments within the organization.
The sample size is large
The service is standardized
Customers are informed
The surveyor is biased or inexperienced
Online questionnaire
Observation
Focus group discussion
In-depth personal interview
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4
6
5 (Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, Empathy)
High technological complexity
Standardized reporting only
Single-level data collection
Multi-level measurement capability
Product price
Brand image
Product and service quality
All of the above
Accept service failure passively
Avoid future services
Increase loyalty to the firm
Imitate complaining behavior for personal gain
The final outcome of the service
Price fairness
Procedural transparency
How customers are treated during the service process
GAP 1
GAP 2
GAP 3
GAP 4
Large sample size
Statistical generalization
Low research cost
Understanding customer experience and motivations
Increase service prices
Reduce service variety
Speed up billing only
Fill the time gap by providing entertainment activities for guests.
Failure to meet explicit requirements
Technical failure
Procedural error
Does not meet the implicit requirements
Reduce employee workload
Increase short-term profit
Improve advertising effectiveness
Ensure the final product meets customer expectations and needs
GAP 1
GAP 2
GAP 3
GAP 4
They are unrelated concepts
Service value determines service process
Service value replaces service process
Service process helps determine service value
Eliminate competition
Reduce labor costs
Control pricing strategies
Improve service quality and retain customers
Communicate directly with customers
Set service standards
Deliver the core service
Connect staff with technical departments to support efficient job execution.
3–5 people
5–7 people
15–20 people
8–12 people
Measuring employee performance
Evaluating operational efficiency
Measuring service costs
Measuring service quality based on customer expectations and standards
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Additional service features
Emotional value
Brand-related benefits
The basic benefits that customers expect when making a purchase to satisfy their needs.
Customer interaction → Experience → Satisfaction
Co-creation between firm and customer
Consumption → Evaluation → Loyalty
Value link → Process → Request → Service value
Technology
Employees
Service process
Customer
Only service delivery
Cost control and pricing
Employee evaluation
Market research and service feature development
Additional services
Emotional value
Brand reputation
The main benefit that customers choose when buying the product
Financial compensation
Outcome fairness
Technical quality
Mental and moral/ ethical satisfaction
Quantitative
Experimental
Observational
Qualitative
Customers complain too frequently
Complaints are always emotional
Complaints are costly to process
Customers do not know who to complain to
To reduce research cost
To increase sample size
To speed up interviews
Ensuring control and quality of discussion
Physical facilities
Equipment
Appearance of personnel
Support process
A low-cost product
A standardized product
A basic product
The product exceeded customer expectations.
Reducing operational costs
Increasing advertising effectiveness
Eliminating competitors
Shaping the organization and helping employees improve service
Measuring service quality
Controlling employee behavior
Evaluating customer satisfaction
Predict market demand and model the relationship between capacity and demand
Reducing employee workload
Improving short-term profits
Enhancing internal control
Strengthening relationships with customers
Maximizing revenue only
Minimizing service time
Increasing market share
Ensuring all service quality standards are met appropriately
By increasing service prices
By reducing service variety
By limiting customer interaction
By regularly gathering feedback and improving products and services to meet customer needs
Phase 1: Customer requirements
Phase 2: Technical characteristics
Phase 4: Process planning
Phase 3: Identifying quality factors
Long-term strategic planning
Brand positioning
Customer loyalty
The Degree of flexibility of physical resources
Workforce downsizing
Service standardization
Technology investment
Price discounts and commercial activities
Publicly rank employees
Increase service prices
Ignore minor issues
Analyze results and retrain employees based on real-world feedback
Only service quality
Only product features
Only customer satisfaction
Product quality, service quality, brand image, and price
It replaces market research
It guarantees profit
It reduces competition
Feedback helps organizations identify customer needs and expectations.
Brand loyalty
Service recovery
Price comparison
Evaluation between expectations and actual experience
The interaction between departments
The relationship between technology and customers
Internal support activities
The relationship between customers and employees in the organization’s work environment
To reduce research costs
To simplify data analysis
To replace customer feedback
To add depth and reliability to the results
GAP 1 increases
GAP 2 increases
GAP 3 increases
GAP 4 has widens
Measure service productivity
Compare competitors
Evaluate employee performance only
Identify strengths and weaknesses in the service process
Reducing customer demand
Increasing service prices
Eliminating service variability
Adjusting factors affecting service delivery
Fixed and standardized
Numerical and structured
Static and objective
Flexible, adaptable, and responsive
It is collected anonymously
It is always quantitative
It is filtered by managers
Customer feedback is collected through official channels and real-world customer experiences.
Outcome fairness
Price fairness
Interaction fairness
Fairness in procedure
Minimizing service costs
Eliminating idle capacity
Increasing employee workload
The organization can handle any level of demand without affecting customer satisfaction.
Increase advertising effectiveness
Improve brand awareness
Eliminate customer complaints
Minimize incidents and errors in service delivery
Reliability
Responsiveness
Assurance
Tangible elements
Satisfaction depends on price
Satisfaction depends on loyalty
Satisfaction depends on promotion
Satisfaction is the result of comparing expectations and reality.
It is always positive
It is statistically representative
It is controlled by the company
because feedback is provided directly from users of the product or service.
Increase service speed
Reduce training costs
Improve technical skills only
Reduce stress and enhance employee value
What customers will accept
What companies promise
What customers predict
What should happen from the customer’s perspective (“Will” is a realistic expectation – what customers predict the business will actually do, based on past experiences, brand reputation, or media coverage.)
Increasing short-term profits
Reducing service costs
Improving advertising design
Helping organizations assess their ability to retain customers
GAP 1
GAP 2
GAP 4
GAP 5
Grönroos
Kotler
Zeithaml
Parasuraman and associates
Storability
Tangibility
Ownership
Invisibility (Intangibility)
Heterogeneity
Perishability
Tangibility
Not separate (Inseparability)
Market data from competitors
Employee opinions
Financial performance indicators
Information provided by customers regarding their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a product or service.
Only employees and customers
Only technology and organization
Only front-stage activities
Employees, technology, organization, and customers
Measuring service quality numerical
Testing hypotheses statistically
Generalizing results
Gaining a deep understanding of feelings and behaviors of research subjects
