Preface -- Introduction -- Integrating service quality and productivity strategies -- What is a service quality? -- Identifying and correcting service quality problems -- Measuring service quality -- Soft and hard service quality measures -- Learning from customer feedback -- Hard measures of service quality -- Tools to analyze and address service quality problems -- Return on quality -- Defining and measuring productivity -- Improving service productivity -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Endnotes
Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance — Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
After examining the productivity and quality issues unique to the health-care industry, Omachonu moves on to total service quality management and productivity measurement.
Managing Service Quality
Service Quality Management
USA. Monograph outlining management techniques for increasing quality standard, labour productivity and profitability - describes a management policy focusing on successful organizational planning, efficiency in resource allocation and operational management...
The role of services in an economy - The nature of services - Service quality - Service strategy - New service development and process design - The supporting facility - Service facility location - The service encounter - Internet service - ...
However, in real terms, we are consuming slightly less services. That is, the increase in the service sector is caused by low productivity relative to manufacturing. The implication of Baumol's cost disease is the following.
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Improving Service Quality in the Global Economy: Achieving High Performance in Public and Private Sectors, Second Edition fills that gap by presenting theory, application models, and cases of su
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