Variability (Kotler et al., 2005). So the quality control becomes critical and to achieve that, service sector have to hire the right people, standardize the service and monitor the customer satisfaction. The service sector should be very careful while recruiting the service employee. After that, service firm should invest and provide training for the newly hired staff in order for staff to provide good service to their customers. Training helps staffs to develop skills necessary to do their job well in particular service area. Especially the front line staff who comes in direct contact with the customers (Langford, 2009). Rotfeld (2001) discuss about the service employees who says “customer service is not my job!”. He provides an example about software firm where he wanted to get information about new software and an employee says “Oh, you want customer service. That’s not my job.” Also in a restaurant while customers wait for a waiter to come by and take order and a waiter comes by and says that it’s not his table or not his responsibility, how will the customer fell about the service? So it’s very important to hire right staff for the right job and train them.
In restaurants the management gives importance to the food quality but they neglect the impact that front line staffs would cause in their services. They fail to realize that the front line staffs are the ones who would be in direct contact with the customers. Restaurants being a small business ignore to provide training to their staffs because of the cost and resources. One of the other reasons is that mostly services staff are the students who are looking for a part time job and that serving is not their future job but just something to earn living. So the management views them as a short term resources and do not give them the benefit or training. This also gives us the clear picture as to why the part time staffs are less committed to the firms, compromising service standards (Pratten, 2004). The service sector should also standardize the service throughout the organization. Staffs become aware about their responsibility and act accordingly. But standardizing may create a mentality for the staff to not deliver the full potential. The staff may think that if the organization wants this much from me, why should I deliver more? So the service sector should motivate the staff and monitor customer satisfaction. They can monitor the customer satisfaction through surveys and complaint/suggestion system. Financial and non financial rewards motivate the staff to deliver the highest slandered of service (Langford, 2009).
The customer has certain expectation of the quality of the service and the provider determines how the customers perceive quality and there is always a mismatch between these two. It is called as the quality gap. For unsuccessful delivery of the service, the gaps are the difference between customer expectation and management perception of customer expectation, difference between management perceptions of customer expectation and service quality specifications, difference between service quality specification and the service actually delivered and the difference between service delivery and what is communicated about service to customers (Langford, 2009; Auty and Long, 1999).
The behavior of the front line employees is very important in the service sector. Lidén and Skålén (2003) stated ‘It seems important that the front-line employee displays concern for the inconvenience that customers have experienced.’ During their research in RadissonSAS they found that most of the customers were looking for satisfaction and not compensation that the RadissonSAS provided if the customers were not happy about any of their services. The customers were happy with the way the front line employees apologized and treated them after complaining about certain service. His research also showed how an honest apology pleased the customers more than a refund. The front line employees can turn a negative critical incident into an improved relationship. For some incident in RadissonSAS, customer complained that the front line employee didn’t handle the incident properly which created negative customer relationship. But in most of the cases the front line employees helped create neutral or even positive customer relationship when there was a critical incident (fault of management). The interviews show how the customer relationship can be maintained by the behavior of the front line personnel. The front line employees have to be empathic, responsive, and apologetic depending on the circumstances and in order to be so; the management should hire the right kind of people for the job and provide them with good training (Lidén and Skålén, 2003).
สำหรับความผันผวน (Kotler et al., 2005) เพื่อควบคุมคุณภาพเป็นสำคัญ และเพื่อให้บรรลุที่ ภาคบริการมีการจ้างคน มาตรฐานการบริการ และตรวจสอบความพึงพอใจของลูกค้า ภาคการบริการควรจะระมัดระวังมากในขณะที่สรรหาพนักงานบริการ หลังจากนั้น บริการบริษัทควรลงทุน และให้การฝึกอบรมสำหรับพนักงานใหม่เข้ให้พนักงานให้บริการลูกค้าของพวกเขา ฝึกอบรมช่วยให้พนักงานพัฒนาทักษะที่จำเป็นในการทำงานของพวกเขาในพื้นที่เฉพาะ โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งหน้าบรรทัดบริการผู้มาติดต่อโดยตรงกับลูกค้า (Langford, 2009) Rotfeld (2001) อธิบายเกี่ยวกับพนักงานบริการที่ว่า "บริการลูกค้าไม่ใช่งานของฉัน" เขาให้ตัวอย่างเกี่ยวกับบริษัทซอฟต์แวร์ที่เขาอยากได้ข้อมูลเกี่ยวกับซอฟต์แวร์ใหม่ และพนักงานกล่าวว่า "โอ้ คุณบริการลูกค้า ที่ไม่ได้งาน" นอกจากนี้ ในร้านอาหาร ใน ขณะที่ลูกค้ารอเสิร์ฟมาด้วย และนำใบสั่งไปที่เสิร์ฟมาด้วย และกล่าวว่า ไม่ตารางของเขาหรือไม่เขารับผิดชอบ ว่าจะลูกค้าตกเกี่ยวกับบริการ ดังนั้นจึงสำคัญมากที่จะจ้างพนักงานที่เหมาะสมสำหรับงานเหมาะสม และรถไฟพวกเขา In restaurants the management gives importance to the food quality but they neglect the impact that front line staffs would cause in their services. They fail to realize that the front line staffs are the ones who would be in direct contact with the customers. Restaurants being a small business ignore to provide training to their staffs because of the cost and resources. One of the other reasons is that mostly services staff are the students who are looking for a part time job and that serving is not their future job but just something to earn living. So the management views them as a short term resources and do not give them the benefit or training. This also gives us the clear picture as to why the part time staffs are less committed to the firms, compromising service standards (Pratten, 2004). The service sector should also standardize the service throughout the organization. Staffs become aware about their responsibility and act accordingly. But standardizing may create a mentality for the staff to not deliver the full potential. The staff may think that if the organization wants this much from me, why should I deliver more? So the service sector should motivate the staff and monitor customer satisfaction. They can monitor the customer satisfaction through surveys and complaint/suggestion system. Financial and non financial rewards motivate the staff to deliver the highest slandered of service (Langford, 2009). The customer has certain expectation of the quality of the service and the provider determines how the customers perceive quality and there is always a mismatch between these two. It is called as the quality gap. For unsuccessful delivery of the service, the gaps are the difference between customer expectation and management perception of customer expectation, difference between management perceptions of customer expectation and service quality specifications, difference between service quality specification and the service actually delivered and the difference between service delivery and what is communicated about service to customers (Langford, 2009; Auty and Long, 1999).The behavior of the front line employees is very important in the service sector. Lidén and Skålén (2003) stated ‘It seems important that the front-line employee displays concern for the inconvenience that customers have experienced.’ During their research in RadissonSAS they found that most of the customers were looking for satisfaction and not compensation that the RadissonSAS provided if the customers were not happy about any of their services. The customers were happy with the way the front line employees apologized and treated them after complaining about certain service. His research also showed how an honest apology pleased the customers more than a refund. The front line employees can turn a negative critical incident into an improved relationship. For some incident in RadissonSAS, customer complained that the front line employee didn’t handle the incident properly which created negative customer relationship. But in most of the cases the front line employees helped create neutral or even positive customer relationship when there was a critical incident (fault of management). The interviews show how the customer relationship can be maintained by the behavior of the front line personnel. The front line employees have to be empathic, responsive, and apologetic depending on the circumstances and in order to be so; the management should hire the right kind of people for the job and provide them with good training (Lidén and Skålén, 2003).
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