MEASURING SERVICE QUALITY
Measuring service quality is a challenge because customer satisfaction is determined by many intangible factors. Unlike a product with physical features that can be objective measured (e.g., the fit and finish of a car), service quality contains many psychological features (e.g., the ambiance of a restaurant). In addition, service quality often extends beyond the immediate encounter because, as in the case of health care, it has an impact on a person’s future quality of life. The multiple dimensions of service quality are captured in the SERVQUAL instrument, which is an effective tool for surveying customer satisfaction that is based on the service quality gap model.