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European Journal of Business and Management                                                   www.iiste.org
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  Application of SERVQUAL Model in Customer Service of
  Mobile Operators: A Study from the Context of Bangladesh
                                               Md. Rifayat Islam1*
    2.   Product Management Specialist, Grameenphone Ltd., GP HOUSE, Bashundhara, Baridhara,
         Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh.
    * E-mail of the corresponding author: rifayat@msn.com


Abstract
This study tried to explore the dimensions of service quality (SERVQUAL) on the perceived performance
of the mobile phone users in the customer service of Bangladesh. Challenges are increasing rapidly in
business environment. In last few years the mobile telecom market in Bangladesh has witnessed a
substantial growth and rapid changes globally as well as domestically. One of the key challenges of this
market is how they satisfy and retain their customers and also manage service quality, which holds a
significant importance to customer satisfaction and their perceived performance. When this perceived
performance fails to meet the expectation then a gap has been created between them. SERVQUAL model is
a widely accepted approach to measure the difference between customer’s expectation and perception.
Although there are five gaps in the service quality concept, this paper has attempted to concentrates on the
most important one, reality gap analysis. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey in which a
customer’s responded to a series of questions based on four key dimensions –tangibles, reliability,
responsiveness and empathy. Four hypotheses were taken on the fact that there is a gap existing between
expectation and perception in this dimension and all hypotheses are proved significant and they all are
accepted after conducting Paired T test. Therefore it is better to conclude that the Customer Care Centers of
Bangladesh are not performing up to the satisfaction of the customers and they need to take corrective steps
to minimize these gaps as early as possible. The study concludes with some recommendations to improve
the satisfaction of the customer.
Keywords: SERVQUAL, Customer Service, Mobile, Gap, Service Quality.


1. Introduction
Many service organizations have embraced relationship marketing with its focus on maximizing customer
lifetime value. In order to gain more profit share and to be distinctive in the market place the service
providers are taking different initiatives and customer care center is one of the common and important
initiative. And in the Customer care center customer service has become an important component in this
process. Hence, managers are keenly interested in the effect of service changes on customer experience and
satisfaction. If customer’s experiences are not satisfactory, the relationship is likely to be very short.
Customer service is shaping in different ways in order to provide a better service experience to the
customer. Everybody has been offering gratuitous and blindly obvious advice on how to improve the
customer experience for years.
As the environment of Businesses is getting stiff day by day, companies are paying more concentration on
the customers. And to be more responsive to the customers, companies have come out with the idea called
“Customer Service” which has become the strength for some of the companies. By the term Customer Care
Center, it means the point of contact for the customers of a particular company. Generally in Customer
Care connects customers with the right individual who responds to the various problems that the customer
is facing and also provide various information and help along with possible solution to the problems.
Moreover successful companies pay more concentration on the Customer Care Center for the purpose of
providing a better service experience to its consumer.
2. Literature Review



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Service quality is always being considered as one of the important attribute for service providers. Findings
about service quality assist service providers to initiate development program to mitigate gap and formulate
future planning. To measure the service quality from consumers perspective now a day’s one of the top
prioritize construct of study by service providers. Service quality is an indispensable factor for customer
satisfaction, cost reduction, customer loyalty, customer relationship and retention, profitability and so on.
According to Lewis (1989), a critical dimension of competitiveness is service quality. Stonebraker and
Leong (1994) defined quality in the way that a total system is required for product or service quality, which
can identify requirement of the customers, can design product/service as per those requirements and can
establish a service delivery or production to produce in conformance with the specifications. Brown and
Bitner (2007) implied that due to competition and rapid development of service quality, developed and
developing countries both has made it significant for companies to evaluate and measure the quality of
service encounters. Berry et al. (1988) described quality has become a significant differentiator and the
most powerful competitive weapon which all the service organizations want to possess. Many have
suggested that quality results from a comparison of perceived performance with expected performance
based on the so-called “disconfirmation theory”. Indeed, this notion was the basis for the SERVQUAL
model, which views service quality as the gap between the expected level of service and customer
perceptions of the level received. Berry, Parasuraman and Zeithaml (1988) are the creators of this
instrument which is for the measurement of customer perceptions of service quality.
SERVQUAL model elaborated by Parasuraman et al., (1985), service quality as the discrepancy between a
customer’s expectations of service offering and the customer’s perceptions of the service received. If what
is perceived exceeds the expectations then customers think quality to be high and if what is perceived
below the expectation then customers think quality to be low. The researchers developed ten general
dimensions named- tangibles, reliability responsiveness, competence, courtesy, credibility, security, access,
communications, and understanding which are evaluated in SERVQUAL. This model was revised later by
Parasuraman et al. (1993) based on the result of an empirical study on five service companies, including a
telecommunication company too. They noticed that some of the ten dimensions were correlated. They
refined it and finalized the instrument composed of five dimensions include reliability, responsiveness
assurance, empathy, and tangibles. Many researches quoted these five elements to be the most important
dimensions to the buyers.
a. Tangibles: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003), the appearance
of physical facilities, equipment, personnel, and communication material of an organization is the tangibles.
Gilbert A. Churchill, Jr. & J. Paul peter (1999) added that customer look for quality in the equipment,
facilities, and communication materials used to provide the service
b. Reliability: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003) the ability to
perform the promised service dependably and accurately is the reliability. Gilbert A. Churchill, Jr. & J. Paul
peter (1999) added that customers want performance to be consistent and dependable.
c. Responsiveness: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003)
responsiveness is the willingness to help customers and provide prompt service. Gilbert A. Churchill, Jr. &
J. Paul peter (1999) added that customer must see service provider as ready and willing to perform.
d. Assurance: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003), assurance
means the knowledge and courtesy of employees and their ability to convey trust and confidence.
f. Empathy: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003) empathy means
the provision of caring, individualized attention to the customer. The service quality model of Parasuraman
et al. (1985) identified five key gaps that can cause problems in service delivery. These gaps are:
i. Research gap: between customer expectations and management's perception of those expectations
ii. Planning and design gap: – between management's perception of what the customer wants and the
designed capabilities of the system that management develops to provide the service.
iii. Implementation gap: between what the service system is designed to provide and what it actually
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iv. Communication gap-– between what the service system provides and what the customer is told it
provides.
v. Reality gap-– between customers' service expectations and their perception of that service.
A company should always pay attention to the customer perceptions and expectations. If there is a
difference between customer expectations and perceptions, there is a gap and in practice, it does not matter
whether the gap is based on facts or feelings, but how the customer perceives service matters stated by
Friday and Cotts (1995). Heskett et al. (1994) claim that quality of service equals delivered service quality
minus service expected. Quality of service is seen to be similar to customer satisfaction. So five distinct
criteria of service quality have been identified, that can be measured as the perceived performance in
mobile market, which are: tangibles reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. For this study, ‘The
Reality Gap’ was taken to find out customer service expectation and perception of the service in Customer
care center of mobile operators.
Mobile industry of Bangladesh is growing rapidly with increasing the population. Currently 6 mobile
operators (GP, Banglalink, Robi, Airtel, Citycell and Teletalk) are in Bangladesh with 82.4 million (Note 1)
subscriber base. Mobile penetration is approximately 55%.
                                               < Insert Table 1>
Customer service can be provided through physical outlet or call center. Customer care center or call center
is an integral part and department for any service providers. Customer care center means an interaction
point where customers receive product related service for their query, requests and complaints physically or
over the call. Call centers offer a wide range of services which are given below:
Customer acquisition: It is one of the effective services offered by call centers. The aim of this scheme is
not only to generate customers but also to allow consumers to contact a representative to make a purchase.
Basically, a business nominates a call center to conduct marketing services on behalf of them and the
customer care center does some of these.
Customer care: Customer care is one of the common services offered by the call centre. When a customer
buys any product or service from a particular company, they are advised to contact the customer care
division of the call centre. Many companies in the western world outsource their customer support facility.
This in effect reduces the operations cost of hiring new workforce so the company better off.
Direct response: It is one of the important services offered by the call centre to the business. During product
advertisement, companies mention a phone number for the customers. When any call is initiated to this
number, the call center provides adequate information to make an informed purchase decision.
Business to business: It is a potential call centre solution for any company to generate business-to-business
sales. The role of the call centers in this regard is to reduce cost and provide resources for a business to beef
up its revenue.
Call centers or customer care centers have now permeated everyday life and become increasingly difficult
to avoid. In a call center environment customer interacts only using telephone, thus allowing the service to
be delivered anywhere in the world. The role of call centers is to act as the door” between the customer and
the organization so that the relationship is positively managed. The quality of these transactions is critical
to the success of the organization because when a customer contacts a call center they already have a range
of preconceived service expectations such as the call being answered promptly by a courteous Customer
Manager who has full knowledge of the products or services. Gilmore, A. (2001) points out those
customers’ expectations of the service may relate to both tangible dimensions such as reliability standards
or intangibles such as feelings or perceptions. In a service environment, such as a call center, both tangible
and intangible aspects of service quality need to be addressed by coaches if service quality, from the
customer’s perspective, is to be achieved by the call center.


All mobile operators in Bangladesh have their own customer service center. Grameenphone was the first
company in Bangladesh to set up a 24-hour call centre in 1999 and today it has the largest call centre in the



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country. GP call centre has both automated and human-agent interactions with its customers for 24 hours
round the year. Call centre hotline is running through Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) and
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. All the operators are incessantly focusing on customer service
since it is an indispensable tool for customer acquisition and retention. Bangladesh Telecommunication
Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has just reduced the price of bandwidth for call centers which is a big
opportunities for mobile operators to expand their operations to provide better and quality customer
services. Customers whether happy with the current services of mobile operators or not, this study was
focused to find out through service gap analysis.


3. Relative Constructs of this Study
In order to find out the service gap through research questions following hypothesis have been developed.
H1: There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of tangible dimension in
Customer care center of Bangladesh.
H2: There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of reliability dimension in
Customer care center of Bangladesh.
H3: There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of responsiveness
dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh.
H4: There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of empathy dimension in
Customer care center of Bangladesh.


4. Methodology
Based on the SERVQUAL model, 20 questionnaires were developed. The model included questions
covering four dimensions of the service which are tangibility, responsiveness, reliability and empathy. The
dimensions were divided into two segments which are expectations and perceptions. A Likert scale was
used to question the respondents on the five point scale. The respondents were asked to rate on the scale
between Strongly Agree and Strongly Disagree. The questionnaire was pre-tested in order to maintain
proper wording, length and sequencing of the questions. The data were collected from the university
students of the Dhaka city, Bangladesh who are using mobile phones of different operators. To select the
sample, non-probabilistic sampling method i.e. convenient sampling was used. A sample size of 100
students was used to conduct the research. At first the students were asked whether they have received any
service from the customer care center or call center of mobile operators.


5. Data Analysis & Findings
Firstly, Reliability and internal consistency of the multi item scales for each of the constructs were
measured using Cronbach Coefficient Alpha. Reliability refers to the consistency, stability and repeatability
of a data collection method. The minimally acceptable reliability for primary research should be in the
range of point five to point six stated by Nunnally (1967). Based on the assessment a total of 20 items
measuring the constructs were ready to use for doing mean average. Coefficient alpha values were
computed for each construct separately which ranged from point 0.6319 to 0.8171.
                                             < Insert Table 2>
Once the reliability analysis was done then a mean value of the expectation and perception of each
dimension was calculated which were then compared using paired t-test to find out the service gap.
                                             < Insert Table 3>


5.1. Hypothesis Testing
In this section hypothesis based on the SERVQUAL model were being analyzed.



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                                             < Insert Table 4>
First hypothesis was H1, there is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of
tangible dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. According to the results in table 4, the observed
T in the scale of P<0.05 is significant, so differences can be seen between the expectations and perceptions
of the respondents related to the tangible dimension. So H1 is accepted.
                                             < Insert Table 5>
Second hypothesis was H2, there is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of
reliability dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. According to the results in table 5, the
observed T in the scale of P<0.05 is significant, so differences can be seen between the expectations and
perceptions of the respondents related to the Reliability dimension. So H2 is accepted.
                                             < Insert Table 6>
Third hypothesis was H3, there is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of
responsiveness dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. According to the results in table 6, the
observed T in the scale of P<0.05 is significant, so differences can be seen between the expectations and
perceptions of the respondents related to the Responsiveness dimension. So H3 is accepted.
                                             < Insert Table 7>
Fourth and last hypothesis was H4, There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in
terms of empathy dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. According to the results in table 7, the
observed T in the scale of P<0.05 is significant, so differences can be seen between the expectations and
perceptions of the respondents related to the Empathy dimension. So H4 is accepted.

5.2 Comparison of Gaps
                                             < Insert Table 8>
From the above table it can infer that the customers are very much unhappy. So it can be concluded that a
significant shortfall in meeting customer expectation across all service dimension .Customers are more
dissatisfied about the Empathy and Reliability aspect of the Customer Care Center as the service gap in this
dimensions are -0.7555 and -0.7774. As the reliability dimension indicates the ability of the customer care
staffs to deliver promised service and according to the result they fail to do so. And Empathy indicated that
they fail to understand the customer’s specific needs, so the service experience in customer care center is
not very pleasant for the subscribers of the mobile phone industry of Bangladesh.


5.3 Limitation
The study had some limitation also. Firstly the study used convenient sample more specifically the
university students of Dhaka city, Bangladesh and many arguments in favor and against the convenience
sampling method. Several authors have enumerated the dangerous of using student samples in research
(Beltramini1983; Oakes 1972).There are also other dimension existing for service quality so further
research can be conducted to measure those dimension.


6. Conclusion & Recommendation
From the analysis done it was seen that in all the dimensions there were significant differences. This means
there was service gap in all the four dimensions. Empathy dimension has the highest gap with a gap score
of -0.7774. On the other hand, tangible dimension has the lowest gap with a score of -0.6222 Therefore, it
could be inferred from the findings that the customers are not getting the services as they are expecting.


The following recommendation may help the mobile phone companies to improve their service. As they
have problems in Reliability and empathy more so these needs to addressed effectively



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    •   They should try to keep their promises to the customers.
    •   They should show their sincere interest in solving the problems of the patients.
    •   Their focus should be on providing the service accurately at the first time.
    •   Their reputation should be such that their service has error-free track records.


References
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Bitner, M. J., & Zeithaml, V. A. (2003). Service marketing, third edition. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.
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11, no. 3 pp. 153-159.
Heskett, J.L., Jones, T.O., Loveman, G.W., Sasser, W.E., & Schlesinger, L.A. (1994). Putting the service
profit chain to work, Harvard Business Review, Mar-Apr, 164-174.
Kotler, P. (1999). Marketing Management, millennium edition. India: Prentice-Hall.
Lewis, B.R. (1989). Quality in Service Sector –A Review. International Journal of Brand Marketing, 7(5),
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Notes
1.http://www.btrc.gov.bd/newsandevents/mobile_phone_subscribers/mobile_phone_subscribers_october_2
011.php



                      Table 1: Subscriber Base of Mobile Operators in Bangladesh
                                Operators                                  Active Subscribers in Million
                        Grameen Phone Ltd. (GP)                                      35.691
             Orascom Telecom Bangladesh Limited (Banglalink)                         22.681
                       Robi Axiata Limited (Robi)                                    15.555



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                   Airtel Bangladesh Limited (Airtel)                                         5.570
             Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited (Citycell)                                    1.736
                   Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd. (Teletalk)                                        1.207
                                 Total                                                        82.442
   * As per BTRC, October 2011.

                                        Table 2: Reliability Analysis
          Dimension                          Number of Items                           Alpha Values
     Tangible Expectation                             2                                   .7632
      Tangible Perception                             2                                   .6683
    Reliability Expectation                           3                                   .7256
     Reliability Perception                           3                                   .7758
  Responsiveness Expectation                          2                                   .7677
  Responsiveness Perception                           2                                   .7650
     Empathy Expectation                              2                                   .7783
     Empathy Perception                               2                                   .6319
      Service Experience                              2                                   .8171
              Total                                  20
                                       Table 3: Paired Samples Test
                                           Paired Samples Test
                                                 Paired Differences                       t     df      Sig. (2-
                                    Mean     Std.       Std.    95% Confidence                          tailed)
                                          Deviation Error         Interval of the
                                                        Mean        Difference



                                                                     Lower    Upper
Pair 1    TAN.EXP-TAN.PER           .6222      .7320         .1091    .4023    .8421   5.702    99          .000
Pair 2    RELI.EXP-RELI.PER         .7556      .9250         .1379    .4777   1.0334   5.480    99          .000
Pair 3         RESP.EXP-            .6556      1.1717        .1747   .3035    1.0076   3.753    99          .001
               RESP.PER
Pair 4         EMP.EXP -            .7778      1.0529        .1570   .4615    1.0941   4.955    99          .000
                EMP.PER


                            Table 4: Hypothesis Testing for Tangible Dimensions
                                     Mean               S                  t                           P
         Expectations (E)            4.2222             . 5493                5.702                  .000
         Perceptions (P)              3.6000            .5600
         Gap Score (P-E)             -0.6222

                            Table 5: Hypothesis Testing for Reliability Dimensions
                                      Mean               S                   t                         P
         Expectations (E)            3.9481             .6434                 5.480                  .000
         Perceptions (P)              3.1926            .7159
         Gap Score (P-E)             -0.7555




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                     Table 6: Hypothesis Testing for Responsiveness Dimensions
                                 Mean                S                 T               P
      Expectations (E)           3.8778           .7163              3.753           .001
      Perceptions (P)              3.2222         .7874
      Gap Score (P-E)             -0.6556

                         Table 7: Hypothesis Testing for Empathy Dimensions
                                  Mean               S                 t               P
      Expectations (E)             3.9333         .7119              4.955           .000
      Perceptions (P)              3.1556         .6642
      Gap Score (P-E)             -0.7774

                                    Table 8: Service GAP Analysis
                   Dimension                                           Gap Score
                    Tangible                                            -0.6222
                   Reliability                                          -0.7555
                 Responsiveness                                         -0.6556
                    Empathy                                             -0.7774
                   Total Gap                                            -2.8107
                  Average Gap                                           .702675




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Application of servqual model in customer service of mobile operators

  • 1. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 4, No.1, 2012 Application of SERVQUAL Model in Customer Service of Mobile Operators: A Study from the Context of Bangladesh Md. Rifayat Islam1* 2. Product Management Specialist, Grameenphone Ltd., GP HOUSE, Bashundhara, Baridhara, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh. * E-mail of the corresponding author: rifayat@msn.com Abstract This study tried to explore the dimensions of service quality (SERVQUAL) on the perceived performance of the mobile phone users in the customer service of Bangladesh. Challenges are increasing rapidly in business environment. In last few years the mobile telecom market in Bangladesh has witnessed a substantial growth and rapid changes globally as well as domestically. One of the key challenges of this market is how they satisfy and retain their customers and also manage service quality, which holds a significant importance to customer satisfaction and their perceived performance. When this perceived performance fails to meet the expectation then a gap has been created between them. SERVQUAL model is a widely accepted approach to measure the difference between customer’s expectation and perception. Although there are five gaps in the service quality concept, this paper has attempted to concentrates on the most important one, reality gap analysis. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey in which a customer’s responded to a series of questions based on four key dimensions –tangibles, reliability, responsiveness and empathy. Four hypotheses were taken on the fact that there is a gap existing between expectation and perception in this dimension and all hypotheses are proved significant and they all are accepted after conducting Paired T test. Therefore it is better to conclude that the Customer Care Centers of Bangladesh are not performing up to the satisfaction of the customers and they need to take corrective steps to minimize these gaps as early as possible. The study concludes with some recommendations to improve the satisfaction of the customer. Keywords: SERVQUAL, Customer Service, Mobile, Gap, Service Quality. 1. Introduction Many service organizations have embraced relationship marketing with its focus on maximizing customer lifetime value. In order to gain more profit share and to be distinctive in the market place the service providers are taking different initiatives and customer care center is one of the common and important initiative. And in the Customer care center customer service has become an important component in this process. Hence, managers are keenly interested in the effect of service changes on customer experience and satisfaction. If customer’s experiences are not satisfactory, the relationship is likely to be very short. Customer service is shaping in different ways in order to provide a better service experience to the customer. Everybody has been offering gratuitous and blindly obvious advice on how to improve the customer experience for years. As the environment of Businesses is getting stiff day by day, companies are paying more concentration on the customers. And to be more responsive to the customers, companies have come out with the idea called “Customer Service” which has become the strength for some of the companies. By the term Customer Care Center, it means the point of contact for the customers of a particular company. Generally in Customer Care connects customers with the right individual who responds to the various problems that the customer is facing and also provide various information and help along with possible solution to the problems. Moreover successful companies pay more concentration on the Customer Care Center for the purpose of providing a better service experience to its consumer. 2. Literature Review 47
  • 2. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 4, No.1, 2012 Service quality is always being considered as one of the important attribute for service providers. Findings about service quality assist service providers to initiate development program to mitigate gap and formulate future planning. To measure the service quality from consumers perspective now a day’s one of the top prioritize construct of study by service providers. Service quality is an indispensable factor for customer satisfaction, cost reduction, customer loyalty, customer relationship and retention, profitability and so on. According to Lewis (1989), a critical dimension of competitiveness is service quality. Stonebraker and Leong (1994) defined quality in the way that a total system is required for product or service quality, which can identify requirement of the customers, can design product/service as per those requirements and can establish a service delivery or production to produce in conformance with the specifications. Brown and Bitner (2007) implied that due to competition and rapid development of service quality, developed and developing countries both has made it significant for companies to evaluate and measure the quality of service encounters. Berry et al. (1988) described quality has become a significant differentiator and the most powerful competitive weapon which all the service organizations want to possess. Many have suggested that quality results from a comparison of perceived performance with expected performance based on the so-called “disconfirmation theory”. Indeed, this notion was the basis for the SERVQUAL model, which views service quality as the gap between the expected level of service and customer perceptions of the level received. Berry, Parasuraman and Zeithaml (1988) are the creators of this instrument which is for the measurement of customer perceptions of service quality. SERVQUAL model elaborated by Parasuraman et al., (1985), service quality as the discrepancy between a customer’s expectations of service offering and the customer’s perceptions of the service received. If what is perceived exceeds the expectations then customers think quality to be high and if what is perceived below the expectation then customers think quality to be low. The researchers developed ten general dimensions named- tangibles, reliability responsiveness, competence, courtesy, credibility, security, access, communications, and understanding which are evaluated in SERVQUAL. This model was revised later by Parasuraman et al. (1993) based on the result of an empirical study on five service companies, including a telecommunication company too. They noticed that some of the ten dimensions were correlated. They refined it and finalized the instrument composed of five dimensions include reliability, responsiveness assurance, empathy, and tangibles. Many researches quoted these five elements to be the most important dimensions to the buyers. a. Tangibles: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003), the appearance of physical facilities, equipment, personnel, and communication material of an organization is the tangibles. Gilbert A. Churchill, Jr. & J. Paul peter (1999) added that customer look for quality in the equipment, facilities, and communication materials used to provide the service b. Reliability: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003) the ability to perform the promised service dependably and accurately is the reliability. Gilbert A. Churchill, Jr. & J. Paul peter (1999) added that customers want performance to be consistent and dependable. c. Responsiveness: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003) responsiveness is the willingness to help customers and provide prompt service. Gilbert A. Churchill, Jr. & J. Paul peter (1999) added that customer must see service provider as ready and willing to perform. d. Assurance: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003), assurance means the knowledge and courtesy of employees and their ability to convey trust and confidence. f. Empathy: According to Philip Kotler (1999); Bitner, M. J., and Zeithaml, V. A. (2003) empathy means the provision of caring, individualized attention to the customer. The service quality model of Parasuraman et al. (1985) identified five key gaps that can cause problems in service delivery. These gaps are: i. Research gap: between customer expectations and management's perception of those expectations ii. Planning and design gap: – between management's perception of what the customer wants and the designed capabilities of the system that management develops to provide the service. iii. Implementation gap: between what the service system is designed to provide and what it actually provides. 48
  • 3. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 4, No.1, 2012 iv. Communication gap-– between what the service system provides and what the customer is told it provides. v. Reality gap-– between customers' service expectations and their perception of that service. A company should always pay attention to the customer perceptions and expectations. If there is a difference between customer expectations and perceptions, there is a gap and in practice, it does not matter whether the gap is based on facts or feelings, but how the customer perceives service matters stated by Friday and Cotts (1995). Heskett et al. (1994) claim that quality of service equals delivered service quality minus service expected. Quality of service is seen to be similar to customer satisfaction. So five distinct criteria of service quality have been identified, that can be measured as the perceived performance in mobile market, which are: tangibles reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. For this study, ‘The Reality Gap’ was taken to find out customer service expectation and perception of the service in Customer care center of mobile operators. Mobile industry of Bangladesh is growing rapidly with increasing the population. Currently 6 mobile operators (GP, Banglalink, Robi, Airtel, Citycell and Teletalk) are in Bangladesh with 82.4 million (Note 1) subscriber base. Mobile penetration is approximately 55%. < Insert Table 1> Customer service can be provided through physical outlet or call center. Customer care center or call center is an integral part and department for any service providers. Customer care center means an interaction point where customers receive product related service for their query, requests and complaints physically or over the call. Call centers offer a wide range of services which are given below: Customer acquisition: It is one of the effective services offered by call centers. The aim of this scheme is not only to generate customers but also to allow consumers to contact a representative to make a purchase. Basically, a business nominates a call center to conduct marketing services on behalf of them and the customer care center does some of these. Customer care: Customer care is one of the common services offered by the call centre. When a customer buys any product or service from a particular company, they are advised to contact the customer care division of the call centre. Many companies in the western world outsource their customer support facility. This in effect reduces the operations cost of hiring new workforce so the company better off. Direct response: It is one of the important services offered by the call centre to the business. During product advertisement, companies mention a phone number for the customers. When any call is initiated to this number, the call center provides adequate information to make an informed purchase decision. Business to business: It is a potential call centre solution for any company to generate business-to-business sales. The role of the call centers in this regard is to reduce cost and provide resources for a business to beef up its revenue. Call centers or customer care centers have now permeated everyday life and become increasingly difficult to avoid. In a call center environment customer interacts only using telephone, thus allowing the service to be delivered anywhere in the world. The role of call centers is to act as the door” between the customer and the organization so that the relationship is positively managed. The quality of these transactions is critical to the success of the organization because when a customer contacts a call center they already have a range of preconceived service expectations such as the call being answered promptly by a courteous Customer Manager who has full knowledge of the products or services. Gilmore, A. (2001) points out those customers’ expectations of the service may relate to both tangible dimensions such as reliability standards or intangibles such as feelings or perceptions. In a service environment, such as a call center, both tangible and intangible aspects of service quality need to be addressed by coaches if service quality, from the customer’s perspective, is to be achieved by the call center. All mobile operators in Bangladesh have their own customer service center. Grameenphone was the first company in Bangladesh to set up a 24-hour call centre in 1999 and today it has the largest call centre in the 49
  • 4. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 4, No.1, 2012 country. GP call centre has both automated and human-agent interactions with its customers for 24 hours round the year. Call centre hotline is running through Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. All the operators are incessantly focusing on customer service since it is an indispensable tool for customer acquisition and retention. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has just reduced the price of bandwidth for call centers which is a big opportunities for mobile operators to expand their operations to provide better and quality customer services. Customers whether happy with the current services of mobile operators or not, this study was focused to find out through service gap analysis. 3. Relative Constructs of this Study In order to find out the service gap through research questions following hypothesis have been developed. H1: There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of tangible dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. H2: There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of reliability dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. H3: There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of responsiveness dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. H4: There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of empathy dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. 4. Methodology Based on the SERVQUAL model, 20 questionnaires were developed. The model included questions covering four dimensions of the service which are tangibility, responsiveness, reliability and empathy. The dimensions were divided into two segments which are expectations and perceptions. A Likert scale was used to question the respondents on the five point scale. The respondents were asked to rate on the scale between Strongly Agree and Strongly Disagree. The questionnaire was pre-tested in order to maintain proper wording, length and sequencing of the questions. The data were collected from the university students of the Dhaka city, Bangladesh who are using mobile phones of different operators. To select the sample, non-probabilistic sampling method i.e. convenient sampling was used. A sample size of 100 students was used to conduct the research. At first the students were asked whether they have received any service from the customer care center or call center of mobile operators. 5. Data Analysis & Findings Firstly, Reliability and internal consistency of the multi item scales for each of the constructs were measured using Cronbach Coefficient Alpha. Reliability refers to the consistency, stability and repeatability of a data collection method. The minimally acceptable reliability for primary research should be in the range of point five to point six stated by Nunnally (1967). Based on the assessment a total of 20 items measuring the constructs were ready to use for doing mean average. Coefficient alpha values were computed for each construct separately which ranged from point 0.6319 to 0.8171. < Insert Table 2> Once the reliability analysis was done then a mean value of the expectation and perception of each dimension was calculated which were then compared using paired t-test to find out the service gap. < Insert Table 3> 5.1. Hypothesis Testing In this section hypothesis based on the SERVQUAL model were being analyzed. 50
  • 5. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 4, No.1, 2012 < Insert Table 4> First hypothesis was H1, there is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of tangible dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. According to the results in table 4, the observed T in the scale of P<0.05 is significant, so differences can be seen between the expectations and perceptions of the respondents related to the tangible dimension. So H1 is accepted. < Insert Table 5> Second hypothesis was H2, there is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of reliability dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. According to the results in table 5, the observed T in the scale of P<0.05 is significant, so differences can be seen between the expectations and perceptions of the respondents related to the Reliability dimension. So H2 is accepted. < Insert Table 6> Third hypothesis was H3, there is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of responsiveness dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. According to the results in table 6, the observed T in the scale of P<0.05 is significant, so differences can be seen between the expectations and perceptions of the respondents related to the Responsiveness dimension. So H3 is accepted. < Insert Table 7> Fourth and last hypothesis was H4, There is a difference between customer expectation and perception in terms of empathy dimension in Customer care center of Bangladesh. According to the results in table 7, the observed T in the scale of P<0.05 is significant, so differences can be seen between the expectations and perceptions of the respondents related to the Empathy dimension. So H4 is accepted. 5.2 Comparison of Gaps < Insert Table 8> From the above table it can infer that the customers are very much unhappy. So it can be concluded that a significant shortfall in meeting customer expectation across all service dimension .Customers are more dissatisfied about the Empathy and Reliability aspect of the Customer Care Center as the service gap in this dimensions are -0.7555 and -0.7774. As the reliability dimension indicates the ability of the customer care staffs to deliver promised service and according to the result they fail to do so. And Empathy indicated that they fail to understand the customer’s specific needs, so the service experience in customer care center is not very pleasant for the subscribers of the mobile phone industry of Bangladesh. 5.3 Limitation The study had some limitation also. Firstly the study used convenient sample more specifically the university students of Dhaka city, Bangladesh and many arguments in favor and against the convenience sampling method. Several authors have enumerated the dangerous of using student samples in research (Beltramini1983; Oakes 1972).There are also other dimension existing for service quality so further research can be conducted to measure those dimension. 6. Conclusion & Recommendation From the analysis done it was seen that in all the dimensions there were significant differences. This means there was service gap in all the four dimensions. Empathy dimension has the highest gap with a gap score of -0.7774. On the other hand, tangible dimension has the lowest gap with a score of -0.6222 Therefore, it could be inferred from the findings that the customers are not getting the services as they are expecting. The following recommendation may help the mobile phone companies to improve their service. As they have problems in Reliability and empathy more so these needs to addressed effectively 51
  • 6. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 4, No.1, 2012 • They should try to keep their promises to the customers. • They should show their sincere interest in solving the problems of the patients. • Their focus should be on providing the service accurately at the first time. • Their reputation should be such that their service has error-free track records. References Beltramini, R. F. (1983), "Student Surrogates in Consumer Research", Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 11(4): 438-443. Berry, L.L., Parasuraman, A. and Zeithaml, V.A. (1988),``The service quality puzzle'', Business Horizons, September-October, pp. 35-43. Bitner, M. J., & Zeithaml, V. A. (2003). Service marketing, third edition. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill. Brown, S.W. & Bitner, M.J. (2007). Mandating a service revolution for marketing. in Lush, R.F. & Vargo, S.L. (Eds). The Service-Dominant Logic of Marketing: Dialog, Debate and Directions (pp. 393-405). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharp. Friday, S., and Cotts, D. G. (1995). The Facility Management: A Marketing and Customer Service Approach. Wiley & Sons. Gilbert A. Churchill, Jr. and J. Paul peter. (1999) Marketing: creating value for customers, Tata McGraw Hill. Gilmore, A. (2001) ‘Call Centre Management: is service quality a priority’, Managing Service Quality, vol. 11, no. 3 pp. 153-159. Heskett, J.L., Jones, T.O., Loveman, G.W., Sasser, W.E., & Schlesinger, L.A. (1994). Putting the service profit chain to work, Harvard Business Review, Mar-Apr, 164-174. Kotler, P. (1999). Marketing Management, millennium edition. India: Prentice-Hall. Lewis, B.R. (1989). Quality in Service Sector –A Review. International Journal of Brand Marketing, 7(5), 4-12. Nunnally, J. C. (1967), Psychometric theory, Tata McGraw-Hill Education. Oakes, W. (1972), "External validity and the use of real people as subjects", American Psychologist 27(10): 959–962. Parasuraman, A., Zeithaml, V. A., & Berry, L. L. (1985). A conceptual model of service quality and its implications for future research, Journal of Marketing, Vol. 49, p.41-50. Parasuraman, A., Zeithaml, V.A. & Berry, L.L. (1993). Research note: more on improving service quality measurement. Journal of Retailing, 69(1), 140-147. Stonebraker, P.W., Leong, G.K. (1994) “Operations Strategy: Focusing Competitive Excellence”. Notes 1.http://www.btrc.gov.bd/newsandevents/mobile_phone_subscribers/mobile_phone_subscribers_october_2 011.php Table 1: Subscriber Base of Mobile Operators in Bangladesh Operators Active Subscribers in Million Grameen Phone Ltd. (GP) 35.691 Orascom Telecom Bangladesh Limited (Banglalink) 22.681 Robi Axiata Limited (Robi) 15.555 52
  • 7. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 4, No.1, 2012 Airtel Bangladesh Limited (Airtel) 5.570 Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited (Citycell) 1.736 Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd. (Teletalk) 1.207 Total 82.442 * As per BTRC, October 2011. Table 2: Reliability Analysis Dimension Number of Items Alpha Values Tangible Expectation 2 .7632 Tangible Perception 2 .6683 Reliability Expectation 3 .7256 Reliability Perception 3 .7758 Responsiveness Expectation 2 .7677 Responsiveness Perception 2 .7650 Empathy Expectation 2 .7783 Empathy Perception 2 .6319 Service Experience 2 .8171 Total 20 Table 3: Paired Samples Test Paired Samples Test Paired Differences t df Sig. (2- Mean Std. Std. 95% Confidence tailed) Deviation Error Interval of the Mean Difference Lower Upper Pair 1 TAN.EXP-TAN.PER .6222 .7320 .1091 .4023 .8421 5.702 99 .000 Pair 2 RELI.EXP-RELI.PER .7556 .9250 .1379 .4777 1.0334 5.480 99 .000 Pair 3 RESP.EXP- .6556 1.1717 .1747 .3035 1.0076 3.753 99 .001 RESP.PER Pair 4 EMP.EXP - .7778 1.0529 .1570 .4615 1.0941 4.955 99 .000 EMP.PER Table 4: Hypothesis Testing for Tangible Dimensions Mean S t P Expectations (E) 4.2222 . 5493 5.702 .000 Perceptions (P) 3.6000 .5600 Gap Score (P-E) -0.6222 Table 5: Hypothesis Testing for Reliability Dimensions Mean S t P Expectations (E) 3.9481 .6434 5.480 .000 Perceptions (P) 3.1926 .7159 Gap Score (P-E) -0.7555 53
  • 8. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol 4, No.1, 2012 Table 6: Hypothesis Testing for Responsiveness Dimensions Mean S T P Expectations (E) 3.8778 .7163 3.753 .001 Perceptions (P) 3.2222 .7874 Gap Score (P-E) -0.6556 Table 7: Hypothesis Testing for Empathy Dimensions Mean S t P Expectations (E) 3.9333 .7119 4.955 .000 Perceptions (P) 3.1556 .6642 Gap Score (P-E) -0.7774 Table 8: Service GAP Analysis Dimension Gap Score Tangible -0.6222 Reliability -0.7555 Responsiveness -0.6556 Empathy -0.7774 Total Gap -2.8107 Average Gap .702675 54