This document discusses quality in the service industry. It defines service industries as those that provide work for others like transportation, utilities, restaurants, hotels, finance, media, personal services, and government. Quality is important in service industries for several reasons, including remaining customer-centric, continuously improving, maintaining efficiency, and staying competitive. Principles of quality include customer focus, leadership, employee involvement, process and systems approaches, continual improvement, and factual decision making. Advantages include setting minimum standards, strategic planning, increased growth, customer satisfaction, and better reputation. Disadvantages can include difficulty measuring quality, higher costs, and focusing too much on quality over business objectives.
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3. Introduction
All institutions, whether for manufacture, service or other purposes, face
problems of attaining quality
Service is work performed for someone else.
The recipient of the service (often called the client) may be
an individual user
an institution
Both
Service work may include sale of a product i.e. Sale of Food at Restaurant
Definitions for 'service industries' usually exclude manufacture, agriculture,
mining and construction.
4. Service Industries
Public transportation.
Public utilities (telephone communication, energy services, sanitation services).
Restaurants, hotels and motels.
Marketing (retail food, apparel, automotive, wholesale trade, department stores).
Finance (commercial banks, insurance, sales finance, investment).
News media.
Personal services (amusements, laundry and cleaning, barber and beauty shops).
Professional services (physicians, lawyers).
Government (Defence, health, education, welfare, municipal services).
5. Need for Quality in Service Industry
Customer Centric
Continuous Improvement
Efficiency
Pressure to provide best product
Remain Competitive
To provide understanding
Monitor products
Strategic Advantage
6. Principles
Customer Focus
Leadership
People involvement
Process Approach
Systems approach to management
Continual Improvement
Factual Approach to Decision making
Mutually beneficial Relations
7. Advantages
Sets Minimum Standards
Complete plan and Strategy
Increased business growth
Critical Learning Experience
Consumer satisfaction
Reduced Employee turnover
Better reputation
IncreasedTurnover
Better ROI
8. Disadvantages
Difficulty in valuation
Cutbacks
Lack of emphasis on business objectives
Higher costs
Any means to reach impossible levels of quality
Can lead to Companys failure as a whole