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Consumer Behaviour in Services
Consumer Behaviour in Services
CONSUMER PROBLEM
TIME DEFICIENCY
REASONS: dual career couples, single
consumer can determine before the purchase EXPERIENCE QUALITIES : attributes that a consumer can determine only after the purchase CREDENCE QUALITIES : attributes that consumer may find impossible to evaluate even after purchase & consumption
Memory
Memory
Future Intentions
Request service
Service delivery
DIFFERENT CUSTOMS
about service delivery that serve as standards or reference points against which performance is judged.
LEVELS OF EXPECTATION
Adequate Service
Zone of Tolerance
Adequate Service
Zone of Tolerance
Adequate Service
Reliability
Tangibles
Desired Service
Personal Needs
Lasting Service Intensifiers are individual, stable factors that lead the customer to a heightened sensitivity to service.
Adequate Service
Situational Factors
Desired Service
Word-of-Mouth
Past Experience
Predicted Service
quality of service & how satisfied they are overall with their experiences.
ENCOUNTER: how the customer has been treated in a particular encounter with a particular employee. CUMULATIVE PERCEPTION: customers overall experience with the company.
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
It is a judgment that a product or service
feature or the product or service itself provides a pleasurable level of consumption related fulfillment. It is the customers evaluation of a product or service in terms of whether it has met the customers needs & expectations. Its failure leads to dissatisfaction.
FAILURE: how much the customer blames or credits the failure or success of a service on the service provider PERCEPTION OF EQUITY OR FAIRNESS: have I been treated fairly compared to other customers? PERCEPTION OF FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS, PEERS ETC
Source: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, The Service Profit Chain, (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1997), p. 83.
SERVICE QUALITY
The customers judgment of overall
excellence of the service provided in relation to the quality that was expected.
Service quality assessments are formed
on judgments of:
Assurance
Tangibles Empathy
is an opportunity to:
Adaptability:
employee response to customer needs and requests
Coping:
employee response to problem customers
Spontaneity:
unprompted and unsolicited employee actions and attitudes
Expected Service
(Customer Gap)
GAP 1
Perceived Service
COMPANY
Company Perceptions of Consumer Expectations
Company
competition To assess gaps between customer expectations and perceptions To gauge effectiveness of changes in service To appraise performance of individuals/teams for rewards To determine expectations for a new service To monitor changing expectations in an industry To forecast future expectations
research Includes both expectations and perceptions of customers Balances the cost of the research and the value of the information Includes statistical validity when necessary Measures priorities or importance of attributes Occurs with appropriate frequency Includes measures of loyalty, behavioral intentions, or actual behavior
Type of Research
Customer Complaint Solicitation
Relationship Surveys Post-Transaction Surveys