As the more quality of life progresses rapidly the more development of service industry is urged, the competition of service industry is intensified. Also, the rapidly changing competitive environments are forcing business marketing firms to seek more...
As the more quality of life progresses rapidly the more development of service industry is urged, the competition of service industry is intensified. Also, the rapidly changing competitive environments are forcing business marketing firms to seek more crucial means for customer satisfaction and trust in service recovery.
The purpose of this study is to analyze customer satisfaction as well as the types of justice(procedural, interactional, distributive) customers perceived with service recovery and result that the discount store recovers service to prevent customer defection and negative word-of-mouth in case that service failure occurs. Especially, this study was intended to make an empirical analysis of how far the individual type of service recovery attribute and perceived justice had an effect on customer satisfaction and trust coming from the service recovery of the discount store. It hypothesis that perceived service justices such as distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice will have directive, positive effect on customer satisfaction and trust. And then customer satisfaction will affect positively trust.
Scale items used in this study were selected from existing scales and were adapted to conform to the service situation at a discount store. To sure the scales intended to measure the variables, factor analysis and cronbach's alpha test were accomplished. Data was selected from 182 customers who have had purchase experience in Daegu, Korea over a year. The primary method of statistical analysis to test the hypotheses was a simple regression with using SPSS 11.0.
The results of study are as follows:
First, each five service recovery attribute has positive effect on perceived justice. Second, customer's perceived justice(distributive, procedural, interactional,) has directive, positive effect on customer satisfaction and trust. Third, customer satisfaction has positive effect on trust.
A variety of managerial implications can be derived from the findings. In service situation of discount store, it has shown that interactional factor between a customer and an employee is the most important thing for customer satisfaction with service recovery. Therefore, marketing and sales managers should focus on hiring a sales person who has the social ability.