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Title: Gender of the Consumer and Service Quality
Authors: Herath, H.M.R.P.
Wanninayake, W.M.C.B.
Issue Date: 2009
Citation: Herath, H.M.R.P. and Wanninayake, W.M.C.B. 2009. Gender of the Consumer and Service Quality. Journal of Commerce and Trade, Bi-annual Publication of Society for Advanced Management Studies, 04(02): 05-13.
Abstract: Banking and financial services are a demand,driven industry; which constitute an important part of the services iLn.MduwsotLrryJ.. tMfr@antLy! tr9e6g@ulLaqt.ovrrJy,, ns.ttrwuLctwtu,uraL l a@nr.dql iLg?ct htLnrLoUloLUgSiccLaqlL acthruatnLg5ec)s thaauvvce tLaukLeernL PpLliUcLev wyvLitLhtLiLnt, tLhItec wwuolrLlud Management, banking industry, in line with the trend towards a rfuire integrated global banking environment.The banking Faculty of commerce sector in Sri Lanka grew rapidly in the recent years. Services sector accounts 56.2Vo of Gross Domestic and. Management Product in Sri Lankan economy which is the highest in all sectors where as the financial services which ,, . studies' includes banking industry contribute 9.7vo to total Gross Domestic Producti Furthir in Sri tan*a, fi";";;"luniversiry "'rf:':::o:: system of the country mninly depends on banking system because banking sector represents o share of 70.8?o of total financial system of the economy. The rapidly changing and highly competitive environment which banks are forced to operate within are pushing them to rethink about their attitude towards customer satisfoction and optimization of service quality. Therefore identifying the significance of the gender of the consumers' on the evaluation of service quality in the retail commercial banking industry of Sri lnnka is significantly important. Further it is worth to identifu whether there is any dffirence based on the gender of the consumers on evaluation of service quality of the banks that they are dealing with. Based on the stratified sampling technique 150 consumers were selected as the sample. The scope of the study was retail consumers of private and public commercial banks situated in the Gampaha district, who have been dealing with those particular banlcs more than two years. Survey method used to gather primary data and it was developed on SERVQUAL model of sewice quality. The gathered data were analyzed using ANOVA andfindings showed that there is no any dffirence among the consumer groups based on their gender in terms of evaluation of service quality provided by the banks.
URI: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/12011
ISSN: 0973-4503
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