Abstract:
The purposes of the study are to study customer satisfaction of the Department of Business Development Office 3 (Ratchadaphisek Branch), to study factors affecting customer satisfaction of the Department of Business Development Office 3 (Ratchadaphisek Branch), and to suggest the way to improve registration service in order to build up the customer satisfaction. The researcher has provided the questionnaire to collect data from 250 customers of the Department of Business Development 3 (Ratchadaphisek Branch) who get service between August and September 2010. The questionnaire is divided into 4 parts. The first part is focused on questions about customer information. The second part is questions about factors affecting customer satisfaction which are 15 factors including customers acknowledgement on the services rules, suitability of process rules in customers attitude, improvement of the service in streamlining unnecessary processes, use of communication and technology for a faster service, fairness and equity of service, officers working ability, officers good human relationship in servicing, officers good personality, officers enthusiasm to work, easy and comfortable to access to the office, comfortable parking area for the customers, good environment of waiting areas, other useful facilities needed in the service, media used for service advice, public relation for customers.
The third part is focused on searching for the level of customer satisfaction. The fourth part is opinions and suggested ideas for the services improvement. In this study, statistical techniques are Percentage, Chi-Square, Gamma, in which the level of confidence is pointed at .05 or 95%.
The study found that 15 factors affecting customer satisfaction of the Department of Business Development Office 3 including customers acknowledgement on the services rules, suitability of process rules in customers attitude, improvement of the service in streamlining unnecessary processes, use of communication and technology for a faster service, fairness and equity of service, officers working ability, officers good human relationship in servicing, officers good personality, officers enthusiasm to work, easy and comfortable to access to the office, comfortable parking area for the customers, good environment of waiting areas, other useful facilities needed in the service, media used for service advice, and public relation for customers statistically affected the customer satisfaction at statistical level of significance of 0.05
The suggestions are as followed,
1) According to service system, the office should promote better understanding of the office staffs and customers about related rules and legislations. In service process, the office should enhance knowledge and technological skills of the office staffs with high quality technical tools and equipments. In term of the office staffs, the office should improve the staffs personalities and expressions to be appropriate and continuously develop capabilities and knowledge related to work. In service place, the office should provide adequate parking facilities and parking service system. Finally, in term of information, the office should promote knowledge about the office, the office service operations and other public relations.
2) The next study should focus on the study of factors affecting the office staff satisfaction to analyze results of both studies of customer satisfaction and office staff satisfaction for improving the service. Moreover, the next study should also focus on comparative study on customer satisfaction of other branches of Department of Business Development .