This study aimed at furnishing basic data on the management strategy of beauty service for the existing service quality and customer satisfaction by inquiring into the factors that affect customer satisfaction on beauty salons currently providing beau...
This study aimed at furnishing basic data on the management strategy of beauty service for the existing service quality and customer satisfaction by inquiring into the factors that affect customer satisfaction on beauty salons currently providing beauty service, and by understanding the relation with customer satisfaction and the impact relation with customer satisfaction and revisit. For research purposes, the hypotheses were formulated through documentary research. A survey was made by a convenience sampling method in the beauty salons located in Seoul and Gyeonggi that are normally operated during the survey by selecting beauty salons-using customers as those who surveyed. The questionnaires of total 449 copies collected from August 11 to August 21, 2009 were used for the final analysis.
The questionnaire consisted of the contents such as service quality, service value, customer satisfaction and revisit intention, and consisted of total 73 questions including demographic variables. The frⅵequency analysis, factor analysis, descriptive statistical analysis, independent sample t-test, One way ANOVA, and Correlⅶation Analysis and regression analysis were made for a analysis of data collected by the questionnaire using SPSS v.12.0.
The characteristics of beauty salon use of those who surveyed showed that for the use frequency, once a month is the highest. For the custom beauty salon, ‘yes’ was the highest by 78.6%, and for the choice motives of beauty salon, ‘technology’ was high. For the average monthly expenditure and the use term, ‘less than 30,000-50,000 won’ and ‘less than 1-2 years’ were the highest, respectively.
For the wishing treatment except hair care and the most preferring benefit, ‘skin care’ and ‘discount coupon’ were the highest, respectively.
The difference in service quality and service value of beauty salon, and customer satisfaction and revisit intention by their sex showed that there is a significant difference in general service quality, and pattern, response, trust and customer satisfaction by subfactor.
The descriptive statistical analysis to examine the service quality and service value of beauty salon, and customer satisfaction and revisit intention showed that for the service quality of beauty salon, ‘response’ is the highest, followed by ‘trust’, ‘pattern’ and ‘sympathy’, and the service quality of general beauty salon is 3.21 points on the average.
The hypothesis testing showed that all five hypotheses presented in this study - ‘The service quality of beauty salon will have a significant effect on the service value’, ‘The service quality of beauty salon will have a significant effect on the customer satisfaction’, ‘The service quality of beauty salon will have a significant effect on the revisit intention’, ‘The service value of beauty salon will have a sⅶignificant effect on the customer satisfaction’, ‘The customer satisfaction of beauty salon will have a significant effect on the revisit intention’ - are adopted.
The result are as follows. To raise the revisit of beauty salon, and make cost or time payed by customers, proper prices compared to other beauty salons, trust for employees and price discount to its customers feel valuable, it should show individual care and concern to customers, and understand what they want to provide beauty service.
This study suggested that the service quality has many effects on the customer satisfaction in using it. There have been the lively arguments on the relation with the service quality and the customer satisfaction or the service quality and the revisit intention, and many studies for empirical examination of this have been conducted. It has shown that this service quality has a effect on the service value, customer satisfaction, customer revisit and word of mouth. Consequently, one of beauty industry's most important goals is what get users' revisit intention by providing satisfactory service for them to put high valuation on the service value.