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Table of Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................................... 1
Introduction:........................................................................................................................................ 2
Objectives of the study:...................................................................................................................... 3
Significance of the study:.................................................................................................................... 3
Hypothesis Development:................................................................................................................... 4
Tangibles:............................................................................................................................................ 4
Reliability:........................................................................................................................................... 5
Responsiveness:.................................................................................................................................. 5
Assurance:........................................................................................................................................... 6
Empathy:............................................................................................................................................. 7
Customer satisfaction:......................................................................................................................... 7
Research Methodology:...................................................................................................................... 8
Type of Research:............................................................................................................................... 8
Source of Data:................................................................................................................................... 8
Primary Data Collection:.................................................................................................................... 8
Secondary Data Collection:................................................................................................................ 9
Questionnaire Design:......................................................................................................................... 9
Measures of Questionnaire sources:............................................................................................. 10
Sampling Plan:.................................................................................................................................. 11
Target Population:......................................................................................................................... 11
Sampling Technique:.................................................................................................................... 11
Sample Frame and Sample Size:................................................................................................... 12
Factor analysis:................................................................................................................................. 12
Result and analysis:........................................................................................................................... 14
Discussion:........................................................................................................................................ 17
Conclusion........................................................................................................................................ 19
Practical Implications........................................................................................................................ 19
Limitations of the study.................................................................................................................... 20
Bibliography................................................................................................................................. 21
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Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine and measuring the perceived service
quality of Jamuna Bank Ltd. with a view to assist management to enhance the delivery of
service quality based on SERVQUAL model.
Methodology: Data were collected from the customer group of Jamuna Bank Ltd. (n=92
customers) to examine the satisfaction level of customers based on SERVQUAL model
developed by Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry (1988). This research employed
questionnaire which was adapted from Nadiri, Kandampully, & Hussain (2009); Caruana,
(2002) and personally distributed to the customer of the bank. Sampling without replacement
technique was used and collected data were analyzed by using SPSS.
Findings: The main findings of this study are responsiveness, assurance and empathy has
positive and significant impact on the level of customer satisfaction. Besides that reliability
has only positive impact and tangibles are negatively associated with the customer
satisfaction level. This study will be helpful to Jamuna bank management and employees to
develop strategy based on customers desire.
Originality:This research will help to understand the most important SERVQUAL area that
customer prefer most and establishing new path between Jamuna bank and its customers.
Future direction of this study: In addition, this research will encourage future researchers
by helping to focus on future evidence-based efforts and providing results that are useful to
the large number of Bangladeshi banks.
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Introduction:
Banking is well diversified service oriented business organization that involves with frequent
interactions with customers (Chen, 2009). Success and survival of banking sectors are mostly
dependent on service delivering quality and service quality has become an increasingly
important issue for banking industry (Nadiria, Kandampullyb and Hussain, 2009). Banking
transaction is highly associated with customer dealings, thats why service quality and
customer satisfaction is getting much more importance (Chen, 2009). Customers are much
more concern about banking service quality with safe transaction as they have so many
options to switch. Dissatisfied customers can easily switch to another bank where they might
get comfortable transaction than previous one. Due to availability and customized customer
service, service quality has getting more importance. Management perception of service
delivery may vary from customer to customer and it may leads to gap between perception and
expectation like perception of expectations; management perception of customer expectation
and setting quality specification; difference between service quality specification and service
quality delivery; difference between service delivery and statement to service delivery;
difference between customer expectation and perceived service (Parasuraman A., Berry L.L.
and Zeithaml, 1985). Considering all of the circumstances this study especially explores the
service quality of banks to identify the lagged area of service quality for quality
improvements of bank customers. To improve the banking service quality there has so many
general measurement instruments for measuring banking service quality. All the instruments
try to find out the current service quality level according to company image, growth,
performance and customer expectation (Vibha, Nravichandran and N.K., 2011). Therefore it
is essential to reliably assess, measure, and seek ways to measure the service quality that can
help to enhance the quality of service. According to the SERVQUAL model (Parasuraman,
Zeithaml, & Berry, 1988), service quality can be measured by identifying the gaps between
customers expectations of the service to be rendered and their perceptions of the actual
performance of the service (Nadiria, Kandampullyb and Hussain, 2009). Despite all criticism
it is the model that helps to match service quality with customers perception about the
service they may purify. Out of all instruments SERVQUAL is the most popular and well
known scale developed by Parasurman that really works for service industry (Bahia and
Natel, 2000). In this study five dimension construct of perceived quality based on
SERVQUAL has been used for measuring the service quality and effectiveness of JamunaBank Limited. The degree of relationship between those five dimensions and customer
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satisfaction has been identified. After that the degree of relationship between customer
satisfaction and service performance has been identified based on respondents response
regarding agenda. This research paper explores the way how SERVQUAL it is used in
banking sector for measuring service performance (Newman, 2001). While is to assist bank
managers develop a differentiated service quality strategy that effectively raises the
satisfaction of existing customers and to attract potential customers (Yu, 2008). This paper
started with the review of hypothesis development according to SERVQUAL five dimension
model and subsequent sections discuss the item scale, data purification, data validation and
findings. This paper also includes the difficulties of service quality improvements in the
context of profitability profile and customers perceived satisfaction of Jamuna Bank
Limited.
Objectives of the study:
Banking is much more related with delivering service. In this research researchers objective
is-
To analyze and make the SERVQUAL of customer satisfaction and perceived service
quality only.
Measuring the perceived service quality of Jamuna Bank Ltd. with a view to assistmanagement to enhance the delivery of service quality that will help the management
for making decision based on customer satisfaction.
Significance of the study:
This is a study that will try to find out the difference between customers expectation and
perception of banking service quality. Bank management is always much more aware about
cost rather quality of their service. They always try to provide service in an economic way
that will maximize their economic return. Thats why most of the time customers found huge
gap perceived service quality and promised service quality. So it is really an important factor
from management point of view that is they able to provide committed service. This study
will help management practitioners to set the service quality range based on service criteria as
well as it will help the customer for getting better and reliable service. After all customer will
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be satisfied and new customer will attract that will maximize banks wealth as well as all
stockholders wealth.
Hypothesis Development:Service quality measurement is one of the most important and challenging task for any
product or service delivery industry. We can evaluate the quality of goods and service based
on some criteria like search properties, experience properties, and credence properties (Yu,
2008). There has no standard form of scale or model for measuring service quality.
SERVQUAL of Parasurman is probably well known, universal scale for measuring service
quality (Bahia, Natel, 2000). For developing research hypothesis I have used SERVQUALs
five dimension as it is much more popular along with customer satisfaction in accordancewith service performance of Jamuna Bank Limited.
Tangibles:
Appearances of the service providing environment and the facilities that service provider
have available for customers have a greater relationship with customers satisfaction (Chen,
2009). Tangibility includes equipment, the appearance of branches in terms of appeal;
cleanliness and tidiness that actually helps the customer to stay longer in branch and do
frequent banking (Newman, 2001). The interior and the visual outlook of a bank help to
create a favorable perception of service quality upon banking activity (Jayawardhena, 2004).
The activity may take place far away from where the customer is sitting and the place of
service providing place distance is not applicable as customers always demand convenience
of service (Siadat, 2008). The Process of payment and receiving money, location of front
desk, inside interior all of the things helps the customer to make their expectation level for
satisfaction with ease of transaction. As now-a-days more non-human interaction banking
like online banking or e-banking getting popularity compared with physical banking, so
banks have to come up with more friendly websites for their customers. That will help to
create customers fascination for banking service (Yu, 2008). So, whether it is online or
physical banking tangibles always has importance to make customer satisfied.
Hypothesis 1: Tangibles is positively associated with perceived satisfaction by bankcustomers.
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Reliability:
According to Zeithaml et al. (1990) reliability is the ability to perform the promised service
dependably and accurately that boosts customer satisfaction. Bank deals with money so there
should have reliability of public sources that this money will be returned after specific time
period (Bahia and natel, 2000). Accuracy of records with error free transaction records and
Reliability became the major focus of banking activity that closely related with customer
demand for specific service. Getting it right first time all the time'' became the target for
account accuracy, keeping promises, meeting deadlines and providing timely and accurate
information to customers (Newman, 2001). Now-a-days information technology is helping to
enhance the reliability of banking service that related with customer satisfaction. To become
a reliable bank in banking industry bank have to maintain error free record with customized
service. Customers always try to do banking with those banks where they feel safe for
transaction. So, it is clear that reliability is much more associated with customer satisfaction.
Hypothesis 2:Reliability is positively associated with customer satisfaction of a bank.
Responsiveness:
Customers always want to get help from the employees and to get individual priority that
increases their satisfaction level. Responsiveness is the degree of willingness of employees to
help customers and provide prompt service to ensure that customers are satisfied with current
service (Chen, 2009). The responsiveness dimension actually incorporates a number of
activities, including the readiness of staff to tell customers exactly when things will be done,
the provision of prompt service, giving customers their undivided attention as well as being
demonstrably responsive to customers' requests. Now-a-days private banks are getting more
priority than public bank just because of providing customer driven service to make them
happy regarding service by private bank employees. And there has high propensity to convert
public bank to private just to increase customer loyalty by improving responsiveness through
which customer base will increase (Vibha, Nravichandra, N. K., 2011). Improvements in staff
behavior became a prime focus for individual staff as well as for teams' improvement
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initiatives with apparent success (Newman, 2001). Bank always have to be responsive to
service what customer demand and what kind of serve have to be provided to make them
satisfied (Jayawardhena, 2004). Customers are always aware about the degree of attention
and prompt service that they are getting from their bank, so it is related with customers
satisfaction.
Hypothesis 3:Responsiveness is positively associated with customer satisfaction of a bank.
Assurance:
Service provider is how much capable to provide promised and committed service that
basically denotes the assurance level of that organization that determines the customers
satisfaction level. Assurance requires staff to have the knowledge to answer customers'
questions and the ability to provide competent, confidential, courteous and friendly service to
heighten satisfaction intensity (Newman, 2001). In general employees capability to provide
service with most recent data along with promised service accurately helps customer to set
their assurance level for any service (Chen, 2009). Increased level of service assurance leads
to create positive loyalty and readiness to pay extra compared to competitors service for the
service, decreased intentions to switch to competitors (Vibha, Nravichandran and N.K.,
2011). Assurance and customer satisfaction is much more associated with one another as
customers set their level of expectation based on that. If the customer has a problem, the
customer service option of telephone or e-mail is how to report this and it is here that the
companys ability to respond well and at a reasonable speed is judged. This is also relevant if
fulfillment is part of the service and the customer has to send back an item or it is late
arriving (Siadat, 2008).
Hypothesis 4: Assurance is positively associated with customer satisfaction of a bank.
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Empathy:
Empathy is one of the most valued dimension that directly impact on customer loyalty of a
bank, willingness to banking with that bank, customer commitment and customer trust(Kumar, Kee and Charles, 2010). Empathy is individualized attention to customers and
willingness of bank personnel to help customers and resolve their problems in a timely
manner (Chen, 2009). It includes Caring, easy access, good /communication, customer
understanding and individualized attention given to customer (Zeithaml, 1990). According to
the study (Lewis Gabrielsen, 1998), service quality and delivery is subjective and is
experienced and judged by customers during service encounters and can be used as a strategic
variable among organizations (Yu, 2008). Customers dont what to waste time in bank and
they expect problem of their solution within a short time period. Personnel have to be
prepared in a way that they can satisfy a customer may with quality service displayed by staff
when they demonstrably had customer best interests at heart by offering convenient opening
hours, understanding of individual customer needs and problems as well as providing
individual attention(Newman, 2001).
Hypothesis 5: Empathy is positively associated with customer satisfaction of a bank.
Customer satisfaction:
Berry and Parasuraman (1991) found that the customers service expectation exists at two
levels, the desired level and the adequate level. The desired service level describes the service
that the customer hopes to receive. This level is made up by a mix of what the customerbelieves can be and should be. The adequate level describes what the customer finds
acceptable (Nadiria, Kandampullyb and Hussain, 2009). Always it is not possible to fulfill
customers expectations based on their demand and also customer expectation vary from
customer to customer so, it is possible that satisfaction level of customers may vary (Vibha,
Nravichandra, N. K., 2011). Customers satisfaction level varies from customer to customer
based on service performance of banks and both are related with each other.
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Research Methodology:
Type of Research:
Objective of this research was to find out the service quality level of Jamuna Bank Limited in
terms of customer satisfaction. The study has been conducted within some specific condition
for analyzing the service quality situation. This research is a conclusive research and
objective was to provide information that is useful in reaching conclusions or decision-
making (Malhotra and Dash, 2010). It tends to be quantitative in nature that is to say in the
form of numbers that can be quantified and summarized. This research has already been
evidently defined. Indeed, it was a conclusive research which was appropriate for this study.
Source of Data:
Data has been collected from so many sources to test hypotheses of this study. Data that that
has been collected were actually categorized in to two main sources. One was Primary Data
and another one was Secondary Data. Both of the data has been used to develop and validate
hypotheses of this study based on past research and present research.
Primary Data Collection:
Primary data are those data that are originated by researcher to perform research work for the
specific purpose of addressing problem at hand (Malhotra and Dash, 2010). Primary data
collection is expensive and time consuming as researcher have to do field work to collect data
from target respondents. For this study target respondents were customers of Jamuna bank
Limited, all of the primary data has been collected through structured questionnaire based on
SERVQUAL model developed by Parasurman. Primary data has been collected through:
Structured questionnaire Survey
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Secondary Data Collection:
Secondary data are those data that have already been collected for any research or any other
purpose. It is easy to collect secondary data and secondary data is inexpensive too. For this
research I have used so many secondary data from different sources like journals, books, e-
journals and many more sources. I tried to collect all secondary data in relation with my
research topic and research objective.
The secondary data has been collected from following sources:
A lot of academic articles and journals on SERVQUAL.
Different online libraries and educational websites which publish articles and reviews.
Different education associated websites.
A lot of research related books from North South University library.
Questionnaire Design:
Primary data has been collected through Structured Close Ended Questionnaire, so that it was
easier to collect information from respondent as well as it was easier for respondents to
response. To measure customer satisfaction Likert scale has been used in this study that
helped to covert qualitative data to quantitative data with a value of 1 to 5 where 1 stands for
strongly disagree, 2 for disagree, 3 for neither agree nor disagree, 4 for agree, and 5 for
strongly disagree. There were five independent variables and one dependent variables with 28
scale items. Independent variables were collected from SERVQUAL model. Questionnaire
has been collected from published journals and articles with standard value. In my research I
have used Parasurmans (1988) SERVQUAL five dimension construct of service quality
named tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy (Bahia and Natel, 2000).
These five items were used as independent variable in relation with customer satisfaction.
Questionnaire for independent variables were 22item scales with five dimension item were
collected from a journal named Zone of tolerance for banks: a diagnostic model of service
quality by Nadiria, Kandampullyb and Hussain, 2009. Dependent variable customer
satisfaction questionnaire were collected from an article named service loyalty by Caruana,
2002. There I used three item scales to measure the customer satisfaction. And that last
dependent item service performance were collected from Dyer and Reevess (1995) proposed
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dimensions of company performance and there I used three scale item to measure the service
performance of Jamuna Bank Limited.
Measures of Questionnaire sources:
Constructs Origin Questionnaire Items
Tangibles Nadiri, H., Kandampully,
J., & Hussain, K. (2009)
1. The bank has modern looking
equipment
2. The banks physical facilities are
visually appealing
3. The banks employees are neat
appearing
4. Materials associated with the
service are visually appealing at
the bankReliability Nadiri, H., Kandampully,
J., & Hussain, K. (2009)
1.
When the bank promises to do
something by a certain time, it
does so
2. When you have a problem, the
bank shows a sincere interest in
solving it
3. The bank performs the service
right the first time
4. The bank provides its services at
the time it promises to do so
5.
The bank insists on error-freerecords
Responsiveness Nadiri, H., Kandampully,
J., & Hussain, K. (2009)
1. Employees of the bank tell you
exactly when services will be
performed
2.
Employees of the bank give you
prompt service
3. Employees of the bank are
always willing to help you
4. Employees of the bank are never
too busy to respond to your
requests
Assurance Nadiri, H., Kandampully,
J., & Hussain, K. (2009)
1. The behavior of employees of
the bank instills confidence in
customers
2. You feel safe in your transaction
with the bank
3. Employees of the bank are
consistently courteous towards
you
4.
Employees of the bank have the
knowledge to answer yourquestions
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Empathy Nadiri, H., Kandampully,
J., & Hussain, K. (2009)
1.
The bank gives you individual
attention
2.
The bank has operating hours
convenient to all its customers
3. The bank has employees who
give you personal attention4. The bank has your best interest
at heart
5. Employees of the bank
understand your specific needs
Customer
satisfaction
Caruana, A. (2002) 1. Based on all of your experience
you are satisfied
2. Compared to other banks you
have done business with
satisfaction
3.
In general, I am satisfied
Sampling Plan:
Target Population:
Target population has been set after questionnaire design and this target population was the
respondent who actively participated in my research. My targeted population was customers
of Jamuna Bank Limited who actually scored the bank in terms of their service quality.
Sampling Technique:
I included one element only one times and followed sampling without replacement technique.
Meaning my questionnaire was structured with non-repetition of questions. Every respondent
got only one chance to response; they were not allowed for second time participation in
survey as my survey technique was non-replacement technique of respondents.
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Sample Frame and Sample Size:
I have conducted a convenient survey. I have collected data from those samples which were
convenient for me to reach and collect data. All of the respondent were taken from Jamuna
Bank Malibagh branch whish was easier for me as I was working there as internship student.
Although convenience survey may lead to biasness but indeed it is helpful to measure the
service quality within short time span. Sample respondent has been chosen those who can
understand the questionnaire and can response independently. There were total 92
respondents from and all of them from Malibagh branch.
Factor analysis:
Exploratory principal component factor analysis with Varimax rotation identified five
SERVQUAL factors namely: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy
and one independent factor namely: customer satisfaction. Result of the factor analysis is
showed at table 01. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy exhibited score
of (0.51) or more than (.51), which indicates that that factor analysis was appropriate for the
study.
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The first factor was categorized as tangibles of Jamuna Bank. This factor had four scale items
which are related to tangibles and appearance of service environment. This factor accounted
for (77%) of explained variance and considered as most vital.
The second factor reliability had five items which comprised of error-free records, service
promises and service performance. This factor accounted for (58%) of explained variance.
The third factor responsiveness accounted for (50%) of variance. This factor consisted of four
items which are related to providing prompt service, employees willingness to help
customers and service speediness.
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The fourth factor assurance explained (53%) variance. The factor was defined by four scale
items that primarily related to behavior of employees, transaction safety, bank courteousness
and knowledge of employee regarding banking service.
The fifth factor empathy had five scale items to measure empathy of the bank. These five
items are related with convenient operation hours, individual attention towards customers and
banks interest to help its customers. This factor is accounted for (53%) of explained
variance.
The sixth and the last factor is customer satisfaction the most important factor of this study.
Based on this factor we found the level of customer satisfaction based on their perceived
service quality. This factor comprised of three scale items and all of the items were basically
related with observed service quality satisfaction. The factor table (table: 01) shows that this
factor is accounted for (66%) of explained variance.
Result and analysis:
Table: 02 Correlation table with mean and standard deviation
VariablesMean St. Dev. 1 2 3 4 5 6
1. Customer
Satisfaction
3.34 .72 1
2. Tangibles 3.82 .84 -.024 1
3. Reliability 3.58 .79 .085 .716** 1
4. Responsiveness 3.35 .78 .210* .416** .424** 1
5.
Assurance 3.22 .80 .412** .089 .217* .410** 1
6. Empathy 3.11 .77 .429** .048 .035 .362** .393** 1
* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
Correlation table (table: 2) shows the means, standard deviations, and correlations for all the
variables used in this study. The result indicated that SERVQUAL factors have significantinfluences on the perceived service quality by customers of Jamuna Bank Limited. Table 2
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shows that tangibles are negatively associated with customer satisfaction of Jamuna Bank
Limited (r = -.024, p
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SERVQUAL variable has to ensure customer satisfaction of Jamuna Bank limited. Here we
can see the magnitude of change of each variable to ensure customer satisfaction.
Theoretical evidence shows a positive relation between customer satisfaction and tangibles
(Parasuraman A., Berry, L.L. and Zeithaml, 1991). Regression table of this study shows that
service performance negatively related with customer satisfaction based on customer group:
= -.149 (p< .280) which doesnt support hypothesis 1 of this study. We can also see that
overall strength of association between tangibles and customer satisfaction is not significant
as R square value is .266. So, according to my findings my hypothesis 1 was rejected as
Tangibles and Customer satisfaction are not positively associated with each other.
Reliability is an SURVQUAL variable that interlinked with customer satisfaction helps to
determine the level of customer level. Regression table (table: 3) shows that service
performance is positively related with customer satisfaction but not in a significant level (p