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Abstract
Service Quality is the degree of excellence in the service performance. Quality in customer service is the only way a business can differentiate itself from its competitors. It is regarded as a strategic organizational weapon. This study aims to find out the most important attributes of service quality in commercial banks which can be used to evaluate the characteristics of banking service quality as perceived by customers and it attempts to measure and compare service quality among private, public and foreign banks in Chennai city on the basis of customer’s expectations and perceptions of quality of services. Service quality measure is based on modified version of SERVQUAL as proposed by Parasuraman et al. (1988), which involve five dimensions of Service quality, namely Reliability, Responsiveness, Empathy, Assurance, and Tangibles.With respect to customer services there are notable perceived differences. Hence this study on customer service quality of commercial banks looks for bringing out the differences between perceptions of customers of these banks.