Kiane Goudarzi

Les rôles des ‘co-clients’ et leurs mécanismes d’influence sur la satisfaction globale durant une expérience de service

Résumé L’objectif de cet article est de montrer comment les interactions avec les clients initialement inconnus mais présents lors de l’expérience de service, que nous appelons ‘co-clients’, influencent la satisfaction immédiate du consommateur envers le service délivré. Cette recherche exploratoire s’appuie sur une étude qualitative croisant plusieurs méthodes, menée sur deux services: un voyage en train et un cours de fitness. Elle identifie six rôles joués par les co-clients sur la satisfaction et quatre mécanismes d’influence sous-jacents. Les autres clients informent sur le service à venir, posent les règles sociales, sont un standard de comparaison, distraient, perturbent et aident à participer. L’influence de ces rôles sur la satisfaction se manifeste par la modification des attentes et de la performance perçue, directement ou via la participation, et à travers le sentiment d’équité. Elle est par ailleurs modérée par des variables situationnelles.

The roles of co-clients and their influence on overall satisfaction during the service experience

The objective of this article is to show how co-clients – clients interacting with the customer during the service experience but unknown before it– impact customer satisfaction with service delivery. This exploratory research is based on a mix of qualitative methods in the context of rail transport and fitness classes. It identifies six roles that have an impact on satisfaction and four mechanisms by which these roles influence satisfaction. Co-clients give information about the forthcoming service, set the standards for social rules, provide a standard for comparison, distract, perturb and help to participate. Through these roles, other customers impact satisfaction by modifying customer expectations and perceived service performance, as well as perceived service equity. The authors propose situational variables that moderate this relationship.

Construction and validation of a hybrid model to measure perceived public service quality (PSQ)

Today, public organizations make extensive use of marketing methods and concepts to design, implement and assess the services they deliver to their beneficiaries. The quality of the services offered is at the heart of their concerns. Public sector marketing requires tools that are adapted to the specific characteristics of the context. The main contribution of this research is to propose the construction of a hybrid model to measure perceived public service quality (PSQ), mixing public and private dimensions. It is based on a quantitative study conducted on a sample of 760 inhabitants of the French town of Besançon. Points for practitioners Service quality is a cornerstone of government modernization. However, public service quality adds another dimension to the notion of service quality. In addition to those found in the private sector, dimensions specific to the public sector have a significant impact on how the beneficiaries perceive public services. In this article we develop a model to measure Public Service Quality that incorporates the public and private dimensions in a single conceptualization. This research provides practitioners with an operational measurement tool to survey their beneficiaries on public service quality.

How other customers influence client satisfaction during the service delivery

Any service experience may be analysed in terms of a system (Langeard, et al., 1981). In its widest sense, servuction – the process of delivering a service - is the result of a system of interaction between the customer, the physical environment, the contact staff, the internal organisation system and the other customers present at the place of service (Eiglier and Langeard, 1987; Lovelock, et al., 2008; Eiglier, et al., 2010). The satisfaction of a service experience depends on these elements, the way they interconnect and their sequence in time (Eiglier and Langeard, 1987).