VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI HANOI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS NGUYEN CHIEN THANG IMPROVING SERVICE QUALITY THE CASE OF UNITED INSURNCE COMPANY Major: Business Administration Code: 60 34 05 MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION THESIS Supervisors: Dr Nguyen Viet Dung Hanoi – 2013 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER I: OVERVIEW OF THESIS. OBJECTIVE OF SUBJECT. SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH. Scope of research.
Method of research. STRUCTURE OF THESIS. 3 CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL BASIS OF SERVICE QUALITY AND NON-LIFE INSURANCE BUSINESS. DEFINITION AND NATURE OF SERVICE.
Definition of service. Nature of service. SERVICE QUALITY AND FACTORS OF SERVICE QUALITY. Definition of service quality.
Factors of service quality. SERVICE QUALITY MEASUREMENT. CHARACTERISTICS OF NON-LIFE INSURANCE BUSINESS. Principle of insurance business.
Characteristic of non-life insurance service. 17 CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND SOME PRELIMINARY RESULT. Design qualitative research. Research model and scale of measurement.
Design quantitative research. Method of data analysis. 29 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS OF INSURANCE SERVICE QUALITY OF UNITED INSURANCE COMPANY. BUSINESS OVERVIEW OF UNITE INSURANCE COMPANY.
SUMMARY OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH RESULT. Result of measurement scale testing. ANALYSIS OF ACTUAL SERVICE QUALITY OF UIC. Reliability of insurance service.
41 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Convenient service access. Overview assessment of service quality of UIC. 56 CHAPTER V: SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE SERVICE QUALITY OF UNITED INSURANCE COMPANY.
OBJECTIVE AND DIRECTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF UIC. SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE SERVICE QUALITY OF UIC. Improving favorable service access for customer. Improving service capacity.
Improving customer care. Recommendation for Insurance Supervisory Authority – Ministry of Finance. Recommendation for Vietnam Insurance Association (VIA). 80 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF FIGURE FIGURE 2.1: HIERARCHICAL OF SERVICE QUALITY BY BRAD AND CONIN .2: A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR SERVICE QUALITY BY DABHOLKAR AND COAUTHORS .3: SERVICE QUALITY MODEL BY PARASURAMAN, ZEITHAML, AND BERRY (1985) .4: DIMENSIONS OF SERVICE QUALITY PERCEIVED BY CUSTOMERS OF PARASURAMAN AND COAUTHORS .1: RESEARCH MODEL OF INSURANCE SERVICE QUALITY FACTORS .1: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF UIC .1: COOPERATION MODEL WITH BANKS .2: RISK PREVENTION SUPPORT PROCESS.
72 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF CHART CHART 4.1: PROPORTION OF PREMIUM REVENUE OF UIC BY INSURANCE CLASS (2012) .2: MARKET SHARE OF UIC COMPARISON WITH THE MAIN COMPETITORS .3: PREMIUM REVENUE OF UIC COMPARED WITH DIRECT COMPETITORS .4: REVENUE GROWTH RATE COMPARISON OF UIC AND AVERAGE OF MAKET .5: BUSINESS TYPE OF SURVEYED CUSTOMER .6: HUMAN SCALE OF SURVEYED CUSTOMER .8: EVALUATION RATIO OF RELIABILITY OF INSURANCE SERVICE .9: EVALUATION RATIO OF RESPONSIVENESS OF UIC .10: EVALUATION RATIO OF RESPONSIVENESS OF UIC .11: EVALUATION RATIO OF CUSTOMER CARE OF UIC .12: EVALUATION RATIO OF CONVENIENT SERVICE ACCESS OF UIC.13: EVALUATION RATIO OF SATISFACTION OF UIC INSURANCE SERVICE QUALITY .14: SERVICE QUALITY EVALUATION CLASSIFIED BY HUMAN SCALE OF CUSTOMER .15: SERVICE QUALITY EVALUATION CLASSIFIED BY INSURANCE CLASS. 58 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF TABLE TABLE 4.1: PREMIUM REVENUE OF UIC BY INSURANCE CLASS (2012).2: SUMMARY CUSTOMER EVALUATION OF RELIABILITY OF UIC .3: SUMMARY CUSTOMER EVALUATION OF RESPONSIVENESS OF UIC .4: SUMMARY CUSTOMER EVALUATION OF SERVICE CAPACITY OF UIC .5: SUMMARY CUSTOMER EVALUATION OF CUSTOMER SERVICE OF UIC .6: SUMMARY CUSTOMER EVALUATION OF CONVENIENT SERVICE ACCESS OF UIC. 54 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com ABBREVIATIONS BVTM Bao Viet- Tokio Marine Insurance Company NKSJ Nipponkoa –Sompo Japan SVI Samsung Vina Insurance Company VIA Vietnam Insurance Association UIC United Insurance Company TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.company CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF THESIS 1. Introduction After 18 year of market opening, non-life insurance market of Vietnam has dramatically developed; average growth rate of premium for the period of 2006-2012 is about 23.
In 2012, Premium of non-life insurance market is more than VND 22,316 billion accounted for 0. At the end of 2012, there are 29 non-life insurers on market including 16 joint-stock companies and 10 foreigner joint venture and foreigner owned companies. The dynamic of foreigner companies helped to increase competitiveness of market. With increasingly severe competition in market, price-driven competition will not bring sustainable growth for insurance companies.
Therefore, improving service quality has become the goal of many insurance companies on the market After 3 years working in United Insurance Company, I see that improving service quality is important and priority task of company. Therefore, I chose the subject “Improving service quality: the case of United Insurance Company” as my master thesis 1. Objective of subject UIC was established in 1997, with 16 years old UIC is one of most mature insurer in Vietnamese insurance market. According to business characteristic of company, UIC mainly focus on servicing Japanese client and most of them is longtime client, hence for many years, service quality has not been assessed and negatively affected.
In result, company has become more dependent on client, passive in client service, slow adoption to change and competitiveness of market. UIC has very small market share and especially the growth rate of 1 (LUAN.company TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.company Vietnamese client is rather low compared with competitors. Therefore, company need to find the answer for the question “whether clients are satisfied with service quality of company or not? How much is satisfactory degree?” The objectives of subject are: - Defining a model to measure and evaluate non-life insurance service quality - Measure and evaluate insurance service quality of UIC - Propose solutions and recommendations to improve service quality of UIC. Scope and methodology of research.
Scope of research In this subject, I research assessment of customer about UIC service. Data collected is through conducting survey with client in some provinces of in the North of Vietnam. Time of survey is in 2013. Method of research Utilized measuring model is based on SERVQUAL model adjusted by particulars of insurance service.
The process of research is shown as below: Preliminary research: is implemented through qualitative methods with technical discussions in group or duel. This research will be used SERVQUAL model to establish preliminary scale of measurement of non-life insurance. Formal research: is done by quantitative methods. I used a questionnaire to investigate the assessment of client of insurance Service quality of UIC.
This study aims to adjust and test the draft scale to form official scale about insurance service quality. Scale was assessed by Cronbach 2 (LUAN.company TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.company alpha, EFA factor analysis, multi linear regression. After this step, I can explore what are factors of service quality After testing, the scale will be used to analyze actual insurance service quality of UIC through descriptive statistic. After this step, I can explore what is the current status of service quality of UIC Based on study results, I propose solutions and recommendations to improve service quality in the near future.
This process can answer the questions: What solutions should be made to improve insurance service quality of UIC? 1. Structure of thesis The thesis includes 05 chapters: Chapter 1: Overview of research subject; Chapter 2: Theoretical basis of service quality; Chapter 3: Research methodology and some preliminary result; Chapter 4: Analysis of the actual service quality of UIC; Chapter 5: The solutions and recommendations to improve the service quality of UIC in; and the conclusion outlined the major findings of the project.company TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.company CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL BASIS OF SERVICE QUALITY AND NON-LIFE INSURANCE BUSINESS 2. Definition and nature of service Practices from the developing countries and the world have demonstrated that: Along with the economic development the services sector is increasingly playing an important role and the contributing big proportion of GDP of each countries. The services sector led the economy as the center of economic activity and it has a close relationship with many other areas of the economy.
In Vietnam, at the end of 2012, service sector accounted for 43. In despite of recession of overall economy, the growth rate of service sector reached 5.97%, which is still higher than GDP’s growth rate. This shows that the potential to develop the services in the future in our country is very large. The following part of this section will answer for some question, including What is service? What is the nature of the service? What is service quality? What factors determine the quality of service? How to measure the quality of service? 2.
Definition of service Services is a very popular concept, there are many definitions of service. According to Zeithaml & Britner (2000), the service is the act, process, how to perform a certain task in order to create customer value used for satisfying the needs and expectations of customers. According to Kotler & Armstrong (2004), services are activities or benefits that businesses can offer to customers in order to establish, strengthen and expand the long-term and cooperative relationships with customers. Implementation services can and cannot be related to the goods of its material form.company TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.company Fitzsimmons said that the service is an intangible activity and storage, made to a customer and the customer is the creator of the product.
Nature of service To identify a service, it is often based on the following four specific characteristics: Characteristic of intangibility is defined as a certain things that cannot touch, see, taste, hear or be aware of other goods (Groth and Dye, 1999). Intangibility is the most important difference to distinguish between goods and services (Santos, 2002). Due to the intangible characteristics of services that now very difficult to determine the customer's perception of service, as well as their appreciation about service quality is how (Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry, 1985). Characteristic of inseparability is shown that service provider perform service at the same time with the service consumption of customer.
Service providers cannot hide any fault or deficiency of services (Ghobadian, Speller and Jones, 1994). For services with high labor content, such as quality occurs during service delivery, service quality expressed in the process of interaction between customers and employees of service provider (Svensson, 2002). For those services that require the participated opinions of consumers as health care, less service companies perform quality control management because consumers influenced to this process. In such cases, the opinion of the customer as patients describe the symptoms to the doctor, consulted by the customer becomes important for the quality of service activities Characteristic of heterogeneity: This feature is also known as the distinctiveness of the service.
Accordingly, the implementation of the service 5 (LUAN.company TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.company varies depending on how the service is provided, location of service, targeted customer of service or time of service. This feature is most recognized for service required high labor force. Requirement for uniform quality of employees will be very difficult to ensure (Caruana & Pitt, 1997). The reason is that what the company intends to serve can be completely different from what the consumer receives.
Characteristic perish ability: Services are perishable; they cannot be stored. Therefore, an empty seat on a plane, for example, is a lost opportunity forever. Restaurants are now charging for reservations, which are not kept, charges may be made for missed appointments at the dental clinic. Perish ability does not pose too much of a problem when demand for a service is steady, but in cases of unusually high or low demand, service organizations can have severe difficulties .The above characteristics are generally referred to in many texts as being what makes services marketing so different.
However, this assumption should be queried on a number of grounds. Like all sweeping generalizations, generalizations concerning services marketing do not always represent the full picture. Consider the question of tangibility. In the main, services can be broken down into three main classifications.
Service quality and factors of service quality 2.