Professional Documents
Culture Documents
people and groups. The fifteen statements below each reflect an important cultural reality impacting
customer satisfaction and loyalty. They have shaped our customer service program's success. Do
they shape yours? How is your customer culture?
1.
T / F: In our organization we operate under the assumption that customers view customer
contact persons as the organization and representatives of what the organization means to them
personally.
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customers: external (paying) customers and internal (work group/ inter-work group) customers.
3.
T / F: We design our processes and train our people around 2 things customers want to
know: (1) Do you do what you say you will? (2) How do you handle problems?
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and/or customer-driven, we make decisions remembering that organizations working from a shortterm, financially driven philosophy are not as effective in service situations.
5.
T / F: Since front line persons make most customer service decisions on a daily basis, our top
management understands their key role and allows them to inform the organization about customer
needs.
6.
T / F: We promote the status of front line customer contact people to a position of value and
respectthey are not considered the least educated, trained and paid.
7.
T / F: We allow our customer contact personnel, not management, to control the quality of the
service product.
8.
T / F: Management believes in the importance of good service and actively supports it.
9.
T / F: We measure customer service results in a way that leads to greater focus on the
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T / F: Customer first attitudes, along with results communicated continually to all employees
in simple terms create a climate for quality customer service in our organization.
15.
T / F: Corporate goals, policies and procedures reflect a customer first mind set, while we