Investigating the level of customer oriented in an excellence business organization through EFQM method

Today, many business organizations have replaced product oriented strategies with customer oriented strategies and try to improve the level of their products and services to reach customer satisfaction. Excellent organizations pay especial attention to their customers and always try to do their best...

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Main Authors: Somayeh Sadat Hosseini, Ali Aalikhani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2014-11-01
Series:Management Science Letters
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2014_306.pdf
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description Today, many business organizations have replaced product oriented strategies with customer oriented strategies and try to improve the level of their products and services to reach customer satisfaction. Excellent organizations pay especial attention to their customers and always try to do their best to have loyal customers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the level of customer oriented in an excellence business organization through European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM) method for one of the biggest Iranian banks in city of Tehran, Iran. The study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale and distributes it among 384 randomly selected customers who do banking business. Cronbach alpha has been calculated as 0.948, which is well above the desirable level. In addition, using t-student test, the study has confirmed that bank enjoyed a satisfactory level of customer oriented.
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spellingShingle Somayeh Sadat Hosseini
Ali Aalikhani
Investigating the level of customer oriented in an excellence business organization through EFQM method
Management Science Letters
EFQM
Business excellence
Customer satisfaction
title Investigating the level of customer oriented in an excellence business organization through EFQM method
title_full Investigating the level of customer oriented in an excellence business organization through EFQM method
title_fullStr Investigating the level of customer oriented in an excellence business organization through EFQM method
title_full_unstemmed Investigating the level of customer oriented in an excellence business organization through EFQM method
title_short Investigating the level of customer oriented in an excellence business organization through EFQM method
title_sort investigating the level of customer oriented in an excellence business organization through efqm method
topic EFQM
Business excellence
Customer satisfaction
url http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2014_306.pdf
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