One of the major differentiator in business
today is service quality. Given to cut throat competition,
the only way for business to develop sustainability is to
provide quality to the customer. Automobile industry is
also in the pangs of competition, survival just by virtue of
product innovations is getting more and more difficult. The
only way to keep customer intact is to provide them with
premium service quality. This paradigm shift in business
has aligned researchers to explore different facets of
service quality and develop useful insights for business.
This paper measures and compares the service quality of
service centres of Global and National brands of
automobile manufacturers using Parsumraman’s Servqual
scale. The responses are sought on 22 item construct on a
five point Likert scale.. Various factors of service quality
of the service centres have been measured and compared.
Finally the implications have been discussed. The service
quality of National brand is found superior on all the
factors. Tangibiltiy seems to be the biggest diffrentiator.
Keywords : Servqual, Factors, Reliability, Tangibility, Assurance, Responsiveness, Empathy, Automobile