Picture of boy being examining by doctor at a tuberculosis sanatorium

Understanding our future through Open Access research about our past...

Strathprints makes available scholarly Open Access content by researchers in the Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare (CSHHH), based within the School of Humanities, and considered Scotland's leading centre for the history of health and medicine.

Research at CSHHH explores the modern world since 1800 in locations as diverse as the UK, Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe. Areas of specialism include contraception and sexuality; family health and medical services; occupational health and medicine; disability; the history of psychiatry; conflict and warfare; and, drugs, pharmaceuticals and intoxicants.

Explore the Open Access research of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. Or explore all of Strathclyde's Open Access research...

Image: Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. Wellcome Collection - CC-BY.

Strathprints

Measuring service quality in the public sector: the potential for SERVQUAL

Wisniewski, M. and Donnelly, M. (1996) Measuring service quality in the public sector: the potential for SERVQUAL. Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, 7 (4). pp. 357-365. ISSN 1478-3363

Full text not available in this repository. Request a copy from the Strathclyde author

Abstract

The use of a variety of measures of service quality in the private sector as critical indicators of both organizational performance and general customer satisfaction is widely accepted and has given rise to considerable empirical research. Organizations operating within the public sector-health care organizations, local government, police, emergency services, government agencies-have also come to realize that customer service and quality are critical strategic issues in the late 1990s. However, it is also widely recognized that such public sector organizations face particular difficulties in measuring service quality. In this article, the authors discuss the major issues public sector organizations need to address in their search for an adequate measure of service quality, assess the potential of the SERVQUAL instrument for the public sector and report on an application of the instrument to a public library service.

Item type: Article
ID code: 18006
Keywords: measuring service quality, quality service, public sector, servqual, total quality management, Management. Industrial Management, Business, Management and Accounting(all)
Subjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
Department: Strathclyde Business School > Management Science
Depositing user: Strathprints Administrator
Date deposited: 04 May 2010 11:17
Last modified: 22 Mar 2019 03:14
Related URLs:
URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/18006
Export data:
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)