MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HOCHIMINH CITY --- oOo --- LÊ THỊ BÍCH ĐÀO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SERVICE QUALITY AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN LIFE INSURANCE SERVICES IN VIET NAM MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Ho Chi Minh City – 2012 1 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HOCHIMINH CITY --- oOo --- I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my research supervisor, Professor Pham Quoc Hung for his intensive support, valuable suggestions, guidance and encouragement during the course of my study. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of my teachers at Faculty of Business Administration and Postgraduate Faculty, University of Econimics Hochiminh City for their teaching and guidance during my MBA course. LÊ THỊ BÍCH ĐÀO My sincere thanks is extended to Professor Nguyen Dinh Tho, Dr. Tran Ha Minh Quan, Dr.
Nguyen Thi Nguyet Que, Dr. Nguyen Thi Mai Trang, Dr. Nguyen Van Ngai for their valuable time as members of examination committee. Their comments and suggestions were of great value for my study.
RELATIONSHIP I would also like to avail this opportunity to BETWEEN express my appreciation to Professor SERVICE QUALITY AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Nguyen Dong Phong, UEH Board of Directors for creating MBA program in English and Dr. Tran Ha Minh Quan for his support during the course. IN LIFE INSURANCE SERVICES IN VIET NAM I would like to specially express my thanks to all of my classmates, my friends, and my colleagues for their support and encouragement. I sincerely thank the management and staff of AIA Insurance, Prudential, Bao Viet, MAJOR: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Dai-ichi life, Manulife, and ACE Life insurance for contributing to this study.05 Last but not least I must express my gratitude to my beloved parents, my husband Nguyen Ngoc Minh and daughter Minh Anh who have always sacrificed to MASTER encourage and support me during THESIS these years of study.
SUPERVISOR : PROFESSOR PHẠM QUỐC HÙNG Ho Chi Minh City – 2012 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my research supervisor, Professor Pham Quoc Hung for his intensive support, valuable suggestions, guidance and encouragement during the course of my study. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of my teachers at Faculty of Business Administration and Postgraduate Faculty, University of Econimics Hochiminh City for their teaching and guidance during my MBA course. My sincere thanks is extended to Professor Nguyen Dinh Tho, Dr. Tran Ha Minh Quan, Dr.
Nguyen Thi Nguyet Que, Dr. Nguyen Thi Mai Trang, Dr. Nguyen Van Ngai for their valuable time as member of examination committee. Their comments and suggestions were of great value for my study.
I would also like to avail this opportunity to express my appreciation to Professor Nguyen Dong Phong, UEH Board of Directors for creating MBA program in English and Dr. Tran Ha Minh Quan for his support during the course. I would like to specially express my thanks to all of my classmates, my friends, and my colleagues for their support and encouragement. I sincerely thank the management and staff of AIA Insurance, Prudential, Bao Viet, Dai-ichi life, Manulife, and ACE Life insurance for contributing to this study.
Last but not least I must express my gratitude to my beloved parents, my husband Nguyen Ngoc Minh and daughter Minh Anh who have always sacrificed to encourage and support me during these years of study. i ABSTRACT The present study investigated the subject of service quality and its relationship to customer satisfaction in the context of life insurance industry service. A study of 238 respondents from six leading life insurance in Viet Nam was conducted in Ho Chi Minh City. This research, using confirmatory factor analyses, proposes a six dimensional service-quality instrument consisting of assurance, personalized financial planning, competence, corporate image, tangibles and technology in life insurance.
A paired “t” test and the cross-tabulation procedure were also carried out in this study to examine the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction. The result from this paper confirmed that the two constructs are distinct, but are highly correlated, implying that an increase in one is likely to lead to an increase in another.