With the rapid development of technology and product differentiation the importance of customer satisfaction has submerged as companies struggle for survival. Thus, the importance of people management has become a prominent figure to business environm...
With the rapid development of technology and product differentiation the importance of customer satisfaction has submerged as companies struggle for survival. Thus, the importance of people management has become a prominent figure to business environments. Well trained, service-oriented employees are a key factor which leads to a major impact in customer satisfaction; aiming to provide distinguished quality of service to consumers; the act of being content to such service-oriented individuals is a primary element. An unsatisfied customer leads to lack sincerity; a dishonest customer service will lead to loosing customers, which may eventually become a major risk to the company. Not only will it cause employees to burn-out and lead to turn-over but also cause massive expenses, which will lead to unemployment and low productivity which will overall weaken the company. Thus, employees’ job satisfaction to business environments plays the important factor of influence and service quality.
This research deals with the influence on how service quality affects work satisfaction on employees and a look on how it improves service-based companies improve their services. We also take a look on methods to gain satisfaction within employees to satisfy its customers.
Certain service providers and its relationships are generally affected by specific traits and may differ in service quality and service satisfaction. Therefore, population statistics on service employees are estimated to differ by work satisfaction and service quality. We will see how such traits effect work satisfaction and service quality. Overall, the research concludes with analysis on impact of service quality by employees' satisfaction.
The results indicate service-based employees show a high rate on the following sub-categories : 'working environment', 'stable working status', ’job-task itself’, 'supervisor-controlled environment', ' financial compensation'.
It is the common theme among the survey respondents to the satisfactory on a job-task itself that the higher education they have the lower satisfaction and they get the grade higher than Assistant manager/Manager is more satisfied than Associate. For financial compensation, the respondents in 40s are the most satisfied while the 30s are the lowest. For stable working status, Associate is more dissatisfied than Assistant manager/Manager. For supervisor-controlled environment, there is not much difference in all variables with significance level, 0.05.
For working environment, the respondents in 40s are the most satisfied while 30s give negative answers. By education levels, the respondents with high school degrees are the most satisfied while the ones with undergraduate degrees and above are the least, which results in that the higher education they get the less satisfied they are.
Analyzing the common theme among employees and the review on the service quality's sub categories shows the highest review on ‘Reliability’ followed by ‘Assurance’, ‘Empathy’, ‘Responsiveness’, and ‘Tangibles’ in turn.
By employees common characteristics, the review on service's ‘Tangibles’ proves contractors/temporary employees have the higher review than regular employees.
For ‘Reliability’, there is no significant difference among all employee types.
For ‘Responsiveness’, male employees have the higher review than female.
For ‘Assurance’, the longer the employees have been working on the service area the higher review they get in general.
For ‘Empathy’, the higher education they get the lower review they have in general.
Looking at the service workers' task/job satisfactory and the influence among service quality, every correlation coefficient between 5 sub categories of job satisfaction and 5 sub categories of service quality is positive and significant.
Job-task itself among 5 sub categories job satisfaction is the most correlation with service quality but the financial compensation and the supervisor-controlled is less correlated with sub categories of service quality.
This analysis shows the low satisfaction on the financial compensation because the target employees are a point of contact.
However this shows that the financial compensation doesn't have a big influence to service quality. This brings up an important concept to the service workers and companies, who think that just the financial compensation could improve and maintain service quality. Financial compensation influences the job/task itself directly but doesn't have a big influence on the sub areas of service quality.
In other words, financial compensation doesn't influence the performance result of job/task itself but non-financial factors, such as the satisfaction on job/task itself, working environment and status stability, does.
Service providers often try to resolve problems with financial compensation to employees when they evaluate the low service quality. However, financial compensation influences employees' satisfaction in a certain degree but this doesn't easily bring up the actual performance or quality improvement.
This research has showed service quality is highly dependent on job satisfaction and providing such conditions will lead to customer satisfaction.
According to research results, the quality of services is greatly influenced by how much the employees providing these services are satisfied with their duties, therefore it is important for service-based enterprises to select, train and station an employees to an appropriate duty. Employment is not preceded through personnel or social value standards of general companies, where the specialty of the duty is not considered but is closely related to who the customers of the service-based enterprises are, what kind of services these customers want, and to employ the most competent employee fit for the job. In order to keep employees satisfied with their work, steady training and workshops to develop and maintain service quality and career must be provided to prevent employees from turn-over, provide high quality services and be loyal to the company. Overall, such results should not become an evaluation report for service-oriented companies focusing on working conditions employees need but an actual research on specific influences that affects service quality.