A study of the service quality affecting a satisfaction of the service recipients from the Tambon administrative organizations in Khueangnai district, Ubon Ratchathani province
Abstract:
The objectives of the study were to investigate the service quality and satisfaction of the
recipients of the service from the Tambon Administrative Organizations in Khueangnai district, to study the
service quality affecting the recipients satisfaction and to compare the service qualities as classified by sex,
age, status, educational levels, occupations and monthly incomes. The population used in the study was the
recipients of the service from the local bodies in question. The samples were the service receivers numbering
400 at the administrative organizations under study. The research instrument was a five-rating scale
questionnaire with a confidence value equivalent to .92. Statistics used in data analysis were frequency,
percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and F-test, and a multiple regressive analysis with the Stepwise
technique.
The research findings were as follows.
Considering the service quality as provided by the local administrative organizations in Khuengnai
district, Ubon Ratchathani province, the aspects could be arranged in a descending order: sense of empathy,
confidence, reliability on the service quality, response to the needs of the recipients, and concretization of the
service. As regards the recipients satisfaction, the issues could be shown in an order of significance: expense,
hospitality and kindness of the personnel, information derived, coordination and convenience. With the service
quality analyzed, it was found that the service quality, concretization of the service, response to the recipients
needs, confidence in the personnel, sense of empathy had influenced the satisfaction of the recipients and
could predict the outcomes by 81.20. The recipients who were different in age and occupations had different
perception of the service in light of the response, the sense of empathy and concretization of the service, and
confidence at a statistical significance of .05