Abstract:
The Concrete Product Division of Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) does not have methods ormeasures to evaluate the quality of concrete product delivery service. As a result, PEA can notimprove its service quality to meet its customers needs. This study was, therefore, performed toassess opinions towards concrete product delivery service quality by comparing people from theConcrete Product Factory Section of PEA and people at the Concrete Product Factory of privatesectors. The questionnaire indices were based on a model called Service Quality Gap. The modelevaluates five parts of the service including: (1) the customers expectations study, (2) the wrongservice quality standards, (3) the service performance gap, (4) when promises do not matchdelivery, and (5) customers expectations and perceived services.Three groups of people were selected to participate in this study. The first group consisted of 40executives (medium level upwards) from PEA and 20 executives (medium level upwards) fromprivate sectors. The second group was service providers from both PEA and private sectors, 30each. Seventy customers who have received services from the Concrete Product Division from PEAand private sectors were the last group of people including in this study. A total of 190 people(100 %) participated in this study.Chi-square and t-test were used to analyze data obtained from the questionnaire. The analysis of thethree groups of people has shown that the executives group, in overview, had the same opiniontowards their concrete product delivery service. In contrary, the group of service providers andcustomers concluded that a working process of the private sectors was superior, in terms of thequality of the services and the service providers.Furthermore, the study revealed that the customers emphasized some problems of Concrete ProductDivision of PEA that needed to be solved, including (1) quality and availability of the serviceproviders, (2) advanced equipment and technology, (3) and comprehensible paper documents.