• Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.1-20
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• 2012

This study aims to suggest managerial strategies for strengthening their competitiveness via analyzing and determining factors to help improve customer orientation and internal customer satisfaction. Furthermore, this study aims to find out the factors of internal service quality affects job satisfaction and customer orientation. The data was collected in 5 small and medium hospitals on 215 workers who had direct interactions with customers. Through regression analysis, all factors of internal service quality affects job satisfaction, however only two factors, credibility and sympathy appeared to affect customer orientation.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.55-63
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• 2003

Total quality management (TQM) is regarded as a tool for improving the competitiveness not only for a manufacturing sector, but also for a service sector, The objective of this paper is to classify TQM education by management level, to identify how TQM education be implemented by the type of industry, to analyze the relationship of TQM education with business performance, and finally to analyze the difference between companies with ISO certification and those without ISO certification in terms of TQM education. The findings suggest that there was a significant difference between manufacturing and service sector in TQM education level. Also, the relationship of TQM education with business performance was partially correlated. Finally there was no significant difference between companies with ISO certification and those without ISO certification in terms of TQM education.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.70-75
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• 2007

The university organization is getting more and more complicated both in function and size these days, and the particularity of university organization inherently has quite a few element of internal conflict. To cope with the rapidly changing university society, together with the all-out effort of university CEO, it is necessary to pay attention to the administrative employees who can really contribute to the organizational competitiveness a lot. The Service Quality Management provides the action guidelines to every individual members of organization and alternatives to the problems the organization is facing. According only Service Quality Management can improve the efficiency of the organizational management and the job efficiency of individual members. Thus, in actual proof researching, we conduct and analyze how the university industries do Service Quality Management such as 6 sigma through survey researching.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.302-306
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• 2006

According to increasing spare time by executing a five-day work and concern to multiplex by developing Korean movie industry, it is required an expedient that can not only strengthen the competitiveness but also serve higher level service to custom. thus, this study will provide ways of improving service quality by analyzing the effect of service quality of multiplex on customer satisfaction and re-visit intention.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.371-387
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• 2005

From early 1999 years, the Mobile Telecommunication Companies have introduced the Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program to attract more customers. However, the severe competition in the Mobile Telecommunication market has made the Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program to be faced with the matured Mobile Telecommunication market and the Mobile Number portability. Main focus of this study is to find what are the core elements of service quality of the Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program. To achieve research objective, we conceptualized the service quality of Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program. We also derived hypotheses regarding the relationships between service quality of the program, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty and examined it by using the empirical research methodology. We suggest new marketing strategies of the Mobile Telecommunication Membership Program which can be applied to improve the corporate competitiveness.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.55-69
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• 2014

As Korea's global IT sourcing is sluggish and supply of qualified IT personnel does not meet the demand, IT developers currently do not worry about their job security. The sluggish global sourcing is attributed to the lack of system design and analysis skills as well as lack of communication skills of IT personnel. Most of big Korean IT service firms operate in captive market. This is also attributed to the cause of the sluggish global sourcing. Some IT managers, especially in global IT service firms, concerned about the negative long term effect of the sluggish global sourcing on competitiveness and human infra capability of Korea's IT service industry. Managers in IT service firms expect skill requirement changes in the future when global sourcing becomes active. The skills and knowledge that they wish to retain in-house is business knowledge, system analysis and design knowledge, customer relation management skills, project management skills and industry knowledge. The jobs with the above knowledge usually involve customers.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.170-178
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• 2001

The objectives of this paper are to introduce some characteristics of two-dimensional concept of quality and to find out the possibility of the application of two-dimensional quality concept for improving the service quality. The concept was applied to small & medium-sized foreign language Institute. In order to select some service quality dimensions and decide attractive qualify factors among numerous factors, factor analysis and frequently analysis were used. The result. is that all quality factors in empathy dimension are identified as attractive quality factors. This implies that customization program is necessary in small & medium-sized foreign language institutes for improving their competitiveness. However, all quality factors in tangibles dimension are identified as must-be quality factors.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.115-133
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• 2006

From early 1999 years, the mobile telecommunication companies have introduced the mobile telecommunication membership program to attract more customers. However, the severe competition in the mobile telecommunication market has made the mobile telecommunication membership program to be faced with the matured mobile telecommunication market and the mobile number portability. Wain focus of this study is to find what are the core elements of service qualify of the mobile telecommunication membership program. To achieve research objective, we conceptualized the service quality of mobile telecommunication membership program. We also derived hypotheses regarding the relationships between service quality of the program, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty and examined it by using the empirical research methodology. We suggest new marketing strategies of the mobile telecommunication membership program which can be applied to improve the corporate competitiveness.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.4
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• pp.57-72
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• 1998

Now a days, people are interested in tourism and leisure activity more and because of the increase of pastime and disposable income as a result of current economic growth. The importance of service industry in getting more serious thereby food industry, especially fastfood, is becoming popular in Korea. Food industry in Korea has been showing high growth rate in both quantity and quality for 10 years and fastfood chains maintains radical growth with 50% being forecasted that they will make huge market in Korea. Therefore, fastfood industry seems to be promising industry which has high potentials. This rapid growth of fastfood industry has been solving a lot of problems such as insanitation, low nutrition, and bad service quality and its positive aspects which make revolutional changes in production and sales are emphasized because it made industrialization with innovative system. So various menu development and service marketing strategy are really need to manage chains for the situation in Korea. Thus, the competitiveness of fastfood clams is dependent on the location of restaurant and the quality of various products. If the marketing strategy for fastfood industry need to established. constant studies should be done to resolve these problems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.121-122
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• 2017

In this study, the economic ripple effect of knowledge service industry were compared and analyzed in four countries of USA, UK, Japan and Korea. The production induction coefficient is the largest in Japan, followed by the United Kingdom, the United States, and Korea. On the other hand, the employment inducement coefficient of the knowledge service industry was the highest in all countries except the UK. This implies that the proportion of employment is significantly increased compared to other industries as the role and importance of knowledge service industry increases in the economic and social structure on which knowledge is based.