SERVICE QUALITY MEASUREMENT IN TANZANIAN BUSINESS SCHOOLS

Authors

  • Esther-R Mbise CBE

Keywords:

Service Quality, extended SERVQUAL, Business Schools, Emerging market economy-Tanzania

Abstract

The extended SERVQUAL instrument is examined and validated for measuring business schools’ service quality in Tanzania-an emerging economy. The relative weights that students attach to various dimensions of the service quality in business schools are established and compared in two periods of time, pre and post graduation. A longitudinal survey was conducted with final year students from two business schools-the College of Business Education and the Institute of Accountancy Arusha.  The validity of the extended SERVQUAL instrument is excellent- α >0.95. A new Process Outcome dimension in the extended SERVQUAL is more important than other dimensions. It is suggested that the extended SERVQUAL instrument be used by managers of business schools to identify factors which students use to assess the quality of the education services they receive. Knowledge of these factors will enable business schools’ managers set priorities while allocating scarce resources to improve quality per school and in higher education, in general. Regulatory bodies should make use of this model as a supplement to the traditional performance measures.

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Published

2015-11-30

How to Cite

Mbise, E.-R. (2015). SERVICE QUALITY MEASUREMENT IN TANZANIAN BUSINESS SCHOOLS. Business Education Journal, 1(1). Retrieved from https://bej.cbe.ac.tz/index.php/bej/article/view/11

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Business Studies