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Service Quality Management in Higher Education in the Ethiopian Context: Systematic Review

Published in Advances (Volume 3, Issue 4)
Received: 23 July 2022    Accepted: 14 November 2022    Published: 29 November 2022
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Abstract

Service quality is commonly noted as a critical prerequisite for establishing and sustaining satisfying relationships with valued customers. In 2008, service quality improvement initiatives in Ethiopia’s public universities started implementing BPR (Business Process Re-engineering) to effect a fundamental change in the current business process jobs and structures, management and measurement systems, values, and beliefs with the aim of increasing quality and productivity that focus on customer satisfaction. Different studies have been conducted on student satisfaction regarding service quality management in an education context. The purpose of this systematic review is therefore to identify and synthesize the student’s satisfaction in an educational context that has identified the extent, importance, and contributions. To find as many studies as possible to be reviewed, electronic searches have been carried out through science direct and Research Gate publications results, 12 kinds of literature have been searched and 6 have been screened as relevant to the review questions and objectives, and finally, 3 studies have been included reviewed thoroughly. The findings of the review revealed one or other another that the see quality management in higher education relies on satisfaction. It was concluded by the reviewer that, students ‘satisfaction regarding quality service management in higher education students were not satisfied as concluded by the reviewer that, it is possible to make our educational institutions’ service quality management successful by giving due emphasis to student’s satisfaction regarding service quality management in higher education institution having forward-looking, in the situations.

Published in Advances (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.advances.20220304.12
Page(s) 159-168
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Keywords

Service Quality, Students’ Service, Quality Management Higher Education

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  • Department of Educational Planning and Management, Education and Behavioral Sciences College, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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