Customer Satisfaction Research Paper

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Customer Satisfaction:
Customer satisfaction is a modern approach of quality in business life and helps for the development of a actual customer-oriented culture and management.
([1] Kotler, Philip, Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Control, 9th ed., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.)

Whether buyers are satisfied after purchase or not it depend on the offers in relation to the buyer expectation. The satisfaction is feelings of a person of pleasure or disappointment resulting from relating a products perceived performance relation to his expectations. If the performance is less than expectation, the customer will be dissatisfied. If performance is according to the expectation customer is satisfied. If …show more content…

Operationally, it is similar to attitude in that it can be assessed as the sum of the satisfactions with the various attributes of the product or service
Churchill Jr., Gilbert A., and Carol Surprenant. 1982. "An Investigation Into the Determinants of Customer Satisfaction." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 19, no. 4: 491-504.
According to Best,2009, Satisfaction is generally considered a wide of area that includes both high levels of satisfaction and also neutral levels where there is no dissatisfaction. However, it is also suggested that there needs to be a separate consideration for different levels of satisfaction with varying imagnitudes and different ranges of effect and impact on business results.
Best, Roger J. 2009. “Market Based Management”, New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.

The Random House Dictionary states that dissatisfaction results from contemplating what falls short of one's wishes or …show more content…

High customer satisfaction ratings are widely believed to be the best indicator of company’s future profit. Satisfaction can broadly be characterized as a post-purchase evaluation of product quality given pre-purchase expectation.
[11] Kotler, Philip, Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Control, 7th ed., Englewood Cliffs Prentice Hall, NJ., 1991.

Customer satisfaction can be experienced in a variety of situations and arebconnected to both goods and services. It is a highly personal assessment and is greatly affected by customer expectations. It is also is based on the customer’s experience of both contact with the organization and personal outcomes. Some researchers define a satisfied customer in the private sector as “one who receives significant added value” to his/her bottom lin. This definition may also be apply as well to public services.
[12] Hanan, Mack and Karp, Peter, "Customer Satisfaction: How to Maximize, Measure, and Market Your Company’s Ultimate Product”, American Management Association, New York 1989,

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