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The impact of quality and customer satisfaction on employee organizational commitment

The objective of this paper is to better understand how employee commitment is affected by the employee, quality, and customer focus of the organization. A two dimensional concept of employee commitment is introduced that goes beyond the traditional...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Authors: Lawrence A. Crosby, Douglas B. Grisaffe, Ted R. Marra

September 1, 1993

The assessment of communication quality

The present article starts with a discussion of the definition problems concerning the concept of communication quality. The conclusion is that communication quality is not an unequivocal concept, and it is argued why the criterion should be found in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Author: Theo B.C. Polesz

September 1, 1993

The effect of TQM on research- and vice versa

Royal Mail, the letters' collection, distribution and delivery business in the UK, with 175 employees, one of the country's largest employers, embarked on Total Quality Management in 1988. This paper examines, in outline, the surveys in place to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Author: Diana Brown

September 1, 1993

An innovative application of conjoint analysis in satisfaction research

The idea that customers may not be satisfied while at the same time not be dissatisfied has been expressed repeatedly in the consumer satisfaction (CS) literature. This article relates the development of an innovative application of conjoint analysis...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Author: Jordan L. Le Bel

September 1, 1993

Caruso

Caruso: the name of the famous tenor is now associated with the latest tool developed by Sofres in the field of telephone surveys. Combining "classical" CATI system functions with the leading edge technologies in vocal recognition, Caruso permits the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Author: Olivier Auliard

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1993

Now you see it, now you don't: Quality and the art of graphic data presentation

We are increasingly aware of the need for total quality management approaches in the more process-oriented aspects of market research such as data collection and tabulation. However, the way in which we communicate study findings to clients and the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Authors: Milton Vahue, David Pring

September 1, 1993

Why the drive for quality?

In this paper we seek to show that the market research industry in the UK has had two distinct phases in which it has thought very hard about quality. These phases can be linked with different aspects of product performance as described by Levitt's...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Authors: Martin Callingham, Greg Smith

Company: Whitbread

September 1, 1993

The contribution of market research to the Para-Olympic games

In this paper we deal with the challenge of the Para-Olympic Games of Barcelona 92. We analyse the attitudes of fear or recoil from people towards disabled and set out a research plan to estimate these feelings. We also talk about the way to get...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Authors: Agusti Mezquida, Juan S. Alós

September 1, 1993

Quality in market research

In this paper the authors argue that it is inevitable that initiatives such as BS5750 will continue to pick off the more concrete, tangible aspects of the market research process that most readily lend themselves to the specification of required...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Authors: Andy Dexter, David Smith

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

September 1, 1993