International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Vol. 3, No. 7, July, 2016
ISSN 2383-2126 (Online)
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Towards a Conceptual Model of Customer
Satisfaction for Manufacturing Organizations
and Presenting a Three-Phases Approach
Majid Feyz Arefi
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Department of Management and Soft Technologies, Malek-Ashtar University
of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Gholamreza Tavakoli
Department of Management and Soft Technologies, Malek-Ashtar University
of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Omid Heidari
Department of Management and Soft Technologies, Malek-Ashtar University
of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Masoumeh Mirjafari Lashkajani
Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to deepening the conventional superficial view
to the customer satisfaction, providing three-phase approach to measure
customer satisfaction within the process of customer satisfaction management,
and then designing a conceptual model for the manufacturing organizations. The
study is of kind of mixed method research. The proposed model in this study is
designed after reviewing the literature and analysis of more than 35 models and
frameworks and interviews with experts and professors; then to validate and
modify the model, the two-round Delphi technique and quantitative methods
including scrolling is utilized. The results of this research include developing a
conceptual model with 5 dimensions and 25 components for assessing customer
satisfaction in manufacturing organizations. Also, the study showed that the
current practices of survey (questionnaire) do not have enough efficiency to
measure customer satisfaction. The proposed three-phase approach of the
present research is consisted of three phase: the initial phase (questionnaire), the
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Corresponding author’s email: majidfeyzarefi@gmail.com