Objective: The purpose of the study is to explore the gap of service quality between pediatric therapist and family of children with disabilities. Service Quality Model and SERVQAL were used to evaluate and compare expectations and performance of service quality for pediatric therapist and family members. Based on the research results, pediatric therapist and rehabilitation department can adjust the service quality and responsiveness. Method: Pediatric therapists and family of children with disabilities from 7 hospitals or rehabilitation clinics in Kaohsiung area completed an adapted SERVQUAL questionnaire. A total of 60 SERVQUAL questionnaires from pediatric therapists and 228 questionnaires from family members were distributed. Fifty-four questionnaires from pediatric therapists and 209 questionnaires from family were returned (response rate is 90% and 91%, respectively). The collected data was analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way ANOVA by using SPSS Windows version 17.0. Result: (1) The dimension of assurance was ranked the most important in expectations and performance of service quality for pediatric therapists and family of children. (2)The major expectation gap between pediatric therapists and family of children is the dimension of Responsiveness, and then Empathy. (3)The major gap between expectations and performance of service quality for pediatric therapists is the dimension of Tangibles. (4)The factor influences expectation of service quality is sex of pediatric therapists and family of children, autism diagnosis, and the level of the disabilities handbook. The factor influences performance of service quality is sex of pediatric therapists, the level of hospitals where therapists work, autism diagnosis, and the level of the disabilities handbook . Conclusion: For family of children with disabilities, it is very important that pediatric therapists not only get professional knowledge but also with abundant working experience. About service quality, pediatric therapists shall maintain professional and reliable services. The study suggests the tangible quality can be improved such as facilities, assistive device, environment cleaning, and parking problem.

With the rise of Internet, ¡§Electronic Mailbox¡¨ becomes the most immediate communication channel between government and citizens beyond limit of time and distance. Apparently, Electronic Mailbox appears as one of the two-way interactive e-government services; moreover, it is commonly available on all country government web sites and offers two-way communication service channel. Citizens are able to express their opinions, doubts, and complaints regarding policies, laws, and regulations via such electronic approach, and can look forward to receiving prompt responses or results. On the other hand, through civic participation, government enables to gather public opinions and then, to transform them into knowledge resources to policy and strategy decision-making. Therefore, the service quality of Electronic Mailbox not only becomes the manifest index of e-government service, but also influences citizen¡¦s satisfaction with government services. According to what Zeithaml et al. (2002) proposed as ¡§e-SQ model,¡¨ we set up the "e-SQ model¡¨ of Kaohsiung City Mayer¡¦s Electronic Mailbox, and bring up six dimensions as ¡§efficiency,¡¨ ¡§reliability,¡¨ ¡§fulfillment,¡¨ ¡§privacy,¡¨ ¡§responsiveness,¡¨ and ¡§empathy¡¨ to prove the proposition that ¡§Information Gap,¡¨ ¡§Design Gap¡¨ and ¡§Fulfillment Gap¡¨ do exist during the process of e-service quality delivery, especially among the manager, designer and the citizen. Through the method of interview and e-questionnaire, we confirm these propositions. The result shows that among these expectations of services, citizens would like to emphasize on ¡§operation instructions¡¨ most, subsequently ¡§ease of use,¡¨ and then ¡§politeness of responsiveness and offering interactive service.¡¨ After experiencing the services of Electronic Mailbox, citizens satisfy with ¡§operation instructions and submitting on line¡¨ the most, but almost displease with ¡§the accuracy of commitment¡¨ and ¡§degree of solving the problem,¡¨ which means the government has to understand the needs and troubles of the citizens, and then figure out some practical way to solve their problems. At last, according to these factors, this thesis proposes certain suggestions from the viewpoints of ¡§system,¡¨ ¡§the government staff,¡¨ and ¡§the needs of citizens¡¨ in order to bridge the gap between the manager, designer, and citizen. Moreover, this thesis hopes to benefit the exercise and service quality of Electronic Mailbox and citizen¡¦s satisfaction.

Under the globalization tendency, the region of purchases no longer only limit to a place, but spreads the whole world, if the complex purchase flow can transform into the part of value chain, will effectively promote the enterprise competitive advantage. In the past enterprise interior invalid rate purchase, unnecessary flow and so on, was a bad sign of purchases processes. Supposing wants to solve the above problem effectively, we can¡¦t neglect the direction of e-procurement. However, only good e-procurement service quality is even more important to the users now. Therefore, this research is trying to explore the user¡¦s evaluation standard of e-procurement service quality. This research incorporating the former perspectives in information quality, system quality, and service quality, and comprehensively considering the role of an e-procurement system on service constructs, In addition, this research takes domestic company which was inducted the e-procurement system as a model to find out the important e-procurement service quality constructs that users pay attention to and influence their judgment to develop a questionnaire to evaluate the e-procurement system service quality. Finally, through the results of the questionnaire, we hope to provide some suggestions to the enterprises in the field or the ones that want to participate in to upgrade their e-procurement system service quality and gain profits. Besides, from the perspective of management, this research also hopes that through the questionnaire, the manager of the company which was inducted the e-procurement system can understand more about the standard the users use to evaluate e-procurement system service quality to help them efficiently make management strategies to reach their final goals.

The service quality of banking industry - the empirical research of public-owned banks in Kaohsiung area. Public-owned banks usually gives us bureaucratic image. Although they try to raise their service quality under the press of competition, but the improvement is limited. When managers of public-owned banks strive for raising the service quality, the employees usually don¡¦t make enough efforts. What reason does result in such gap? How to solve this problem? How to inspire employees to work hard for the image of ¡§high service quality¡¨, which is accepted by high level manager? According to these motives, we use the PZB model to evaluate the service quality gap. Our research targets are the public-owned banks in Kaohsiung area. Findings indicates that there is no significant difference between the managers¡¦ and the employees¡¦ cognition of customer service expectation in public-owned banks. But there is gap existence between the managers¡¦ cognition of customer service expectation, and the service conveyed to the customer. ¡§control system¡¨ and ¡§team work¡¨ are the main reasons of the gap between service cognition and conveyance. Besides, most employees think the poor ¡§ performance evaluation system¡¨ causes the poor service quality in public-owned bank. They suggest that ¡§creating good working atmosphere¡¨, ¡§building a property performance evaluation system¡¨, ¡§managers should lead by personal example¡¨, and ¡§ a strong determination of change¡¨ may promote the service quality of public-owned banks. Standing on our empirical study, we make the following suggestions for the public-owned banks to raising their service quality: 1. The support of manager. 2. Adopt a proper performance measurement and evaluation system. 3. Managing in humanistic way. 4. Accelerate the rotation and promotion. 5. Strengthen the training of service quality raising.

Purpose – To examine the relationship between outpatient service quality expectation, perception and their effect on satisfaction at Gauteng public hospitals. Problem - Gauteng Public healthcare facilities are perceived to be offering deficient and poor quality service to their outpatient clients. Methodology – The SERVQUAL questionnaire tool is used, it encompasses the six dimensional structures of quality. 406 outpatients at public hospitals are the respondents. Limitations – Data collection environment could have led to the collection of inaccurate data. Data collection errors could exist due to the fact that the field workers had to translate questions for the candidates. These limitations limit the conclusions that can be drawn on the study. Findings/implications – The majority of outpatient expectations are not met. Patients are dissatisfied with the overall service quality provided by their outpatient departments. This has the effect of making patients reluctant to attend such facilities and could lead to treatment non compliance.

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Purpose – To examine the relationship between outpatient service quality expectation, perception and their effect on satisfaction at Gauteng public hospitals. Problem - Gauteng Public healthcare facilities are perceived to be offering deficient and poor quality service to their outpatient clients. Methodology – The SERVQUAL questionnaire tool is used, it encompasses the six dimensional structures of quality. 406 outpatients at public hospitals are the respondents. Limitations – Data collection environment could have led to the collection of inaccurate data. Data collection errors could exist due to the fact that the field workers had to translate questions for the candidates. These limitations limit the conclusions that can be drawn on the study. Findings/implications – The majority of outpatient expectations are not met. Patients are dissatisfied with the overall service quality provided by their outpatient departments. This has the effect of making patients reluctant to attend such facilities and could lead to treatment non compliance.

This thesis examines the nature and elements of Maori involvement in tourism using a dyadic assessment of operator service quality. The SERVQUAL instrument has been proposed as an instrument for the measurement of perceived service quality within a wide range of service categories. The current research examines both the operation of the scale and its management implications in four major sectors of the New Zealand tourism industry. Data for this study was collected through random mall intercept using a judgemental nonprobability sample of leading Maori tourism operators. In total, two hundred and thirteen useable responses formed the basis of the results. Major outcomes of the study reveal that; the conceptualisation and measurement of Maori cultural impacts on service encounters is problematic due the difficulty in defining who and what is Maori; the definition and measurement of service quality as a five dimensional construct as in SERVQUAL appears to suffer from a number of methodological shortcomings. For researchers in the process of using SERVQUAL, the results of this study suggest to exercise caution. Suggestions are provided with implications for instrument modification. The final outcome of the study reveals that the service quality of Maori tourism operators contains significant service gaps highlighting potential strengths and weakness and profiles of sector specific characteristics for the future development of this tourism field.

Due to the gradual increase of the women income and with the rise of living standard, the market also expands for cosmetic products; the cosmetics enter the pluralistic channels district trough the market. How to select the best channel and maintain the service quality in distribution channels of cosmetics are important for the vendor. Thus, this research aims to discuss the relation between the distribution channel of cosmetics, consumer behavior and service quality. This research takes the SHISEIDO¡¦s consumers from Kaohsiung as the research objects for verification and analysis, the questionnaire materials which carry on 200 consumers. The major result of this research as follow: consumers of different behavior have obvious differences in select channels, and different channels have obvious differences in service quality.

The competition of retail Industries in Taiwan is intense, in order to reach customer¡¦s satisfactions, suppliers endeavor to the separation of tangible products. As to intangible service, suppliers devote to provide various services with guarantee. The subject of this research aims at the service quality of wholesale. The first membership system American wholesale in Taiwan with 15 business years is the object of this research. Through the observation of service-providing staff, and case collection of customer complains during the service process, the extent of professional knowledge of service-providing staff has obvious relevance with the quality of service provided. Previous researches of wholesale competition in tangible products mostly focus on either sales price difference or the loyalty of self-brand development. As to the research of satisfaction and loyalty of customers in intangible services, the required professional knowledge and the cultivation of working competence on service-providing staffs, business agents, has only few documentations. Hence, the research takes further steps to analyze (1) What knowledge has been possessed in staffs? Do staffs possess adequate professional knowledge? What is the previous best practice and experience in the business? Does storage execute? Does circulation proceed? (2) What are the factors which cause the restriction of the development of knowledge system? What challenge will occur when lacking of knowledge system? Finally, the research reveals that the relevant activities of education and training can assist to reduce or eliminate daily complain cases from customers.