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The Impact of Automated Teller Machines (ATMS) Service On Customer Satisfaction: A Study Based On State Banks in Sri Lanka
The Impact of Automated Teller Machines (ATMS) Service On Customer Satisfaction: A Study Based On State Banks in Sri Lanka
The Impact of Automated Teller Machines (ATMS) Service On Customer Satisfaction: A Study Based On State Banks in Sri Lanka
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The aim of this paper is to understand the impact of ATM service quality towards the customer
satisfaction in Sri Lankan state banking sector. This research bridges the gap that exists in the
current body of knowledge by investigating the ATM service qualities and their impact on
customer satisfaction. It also examines the impact of demographic factors for the relationship
between ATM service quality and customer satisfaction. Given these gaps in the literature, the
research problem in this research is: The factors which influence on customer satisfaction with
relation to the ATM service. To investigate the research problem, a pilot study involving 30 state
bank customers was used to check the initial reliability and validity of the constructs in the
questionnaire. The factor analysis was employed to refine the measurement items and test for
reliability and validity. The study has used the primary data of customer satisfaction survey
(N=385). The data was collected using a structured questionnaire designed to ascertain the
satisfaction levels. Regression, ANOVA and T-test were used to identify significant factors and
frequency analysis was used to analyze customer satisfaction. The ATM service qualities have a
positive impact on the customer satisfaction and the demographic factors like age and
educational qualification moderate the relationship between ATM service quality and customer
satisfaction. This paper identified the significant factors which the banks may take care to
enhance the customer satisfaction.
Research will concentrate on the dimensions of ATM service quality, has been identified for
develop the conceptual framework using literatures and its effect on customer satisfaction. The
study is motivated by the challengers confronting by the banks regarding their ATM machines
and the customers which are often under-reported. Service quality has become a major area of
academic research and research in this area point out that service quality is an important
indicator of customer satisfaction. There are operating inconvenience of ATM machines and
regularly there are issues faced by customers while using the ATM machines such as not
dispensing the cash, debit transaction when cash is not dispensed, card stuck in the ATM, unable
to withdraw cash with located ATM etc. Hence it is important to identify the problems that
make a barrier between customer and ATM service. Forthat it isnecessary to identify the factors
which could motivate the customers to use ATM machines. Therefore the problem encounters
will be: “What are the importance of factors which influence on customer satisfaction with
relation to the ATM service”
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1SERVICE QUALITY
Service quality has been described as a form of attitude by many researchers (Cronin& Taylor,
1992). Narteh (2013) identifies the dimensions of ATM service quality and evaluates customers’
perceptions of the relative importance of these dimensions. It provides a theoretical basis for
conceptualizing ATM service quality and he identified five dimensions of the “ATMqual”
model. These dimensions are reliability, convenience, responsiveness, ease of use and
fulfillment. Joseph and Stone (2003) found that among the customers convenientlocation, secure
services, special services for the disabled, user friendliness, and personalization were the
dimensions of ATM service quality. Al-Hawari, Hartley and Ward (2005) study that secured
places, user friendliness, convenient location and proper functioning as the key dimensions of
ATM service quality. Mobarek (2007) found speed of operations and waiting time as the
important predictors of ATM service quality. Dilijonas, Kriksciuniene, Sakalauskas and Simutis
(2009) categorized the factors that determine ATM service quality into essential resources such
as adequate number of ATM, convenient and secure locations and user friendly system,
important dimensions of operation of ATM, maximum speed, minimum errors, high uptime and
cash back and value-based aspects such as reasonable cost, offering to cover maximum needs of
customers as the major dimensions of ATM service quality.
Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry (1988) developed SERVQUAL instrument to assess service
quality of traditional services or non-electronic services which containing five dimensions i.e.
Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, Empathy and Tangibles. According to Zeithaml (2000)
mentioned that apart from Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance/Trust and Security/Privacy
there are other important dimensions such as Access, Flexibility, and Ease of navigation,
Efficiency, Price knowledge, Site aesthetics and Customization /Personalization. Parasuraman,
Zeithaml, Malhorta (2005) developed scales to assess service quality and used Efficiency,
Fulfillment, System Availability, Privacy, Responsiveness, Compensation, and Contact as
service quality dimensions. Joseph and Stone (2003), Mobarek (2007) and Simutis, Dilijonas,
Bastina (2009) mentioned that Adequate number of ATM, Convenient and Secure location and
User-friendly system, Speed, Minimum errors, High uptime, Cash backup, Cost, and Service
coverage are essential service quality aspects of ATM service. Lovelock (2000) identified the
dimensions of ATM service quality such as Secure and Convenient location, adequate number of
ATM, User-friendly system, and Functionality of ATM. These factors include Costs involved in
the use of ATM, and efficient functioning of ATM. Researchers have divergent views about the
use and effectiveness of ATM.
Kumbhar (2011) identifies that customers’ perception regarding System Availability, fulfilment
and Efficiency and Security & Responsiveness is higher than other dimensions of ATM service.
Most ATM managers judge their effectiveness by measuring ATM availability, which is
commonly defined as the percentage of time ATM can dispense cash (Asabere et al, 2012).
According to the Al-Hawari, (2005) banks should look at availability by time of day, or peak
transaction times. If the network is at 90% available, but at peak transaction times you are
operating at more than 99%, then an erroneous conclusion could be drawn that serious
performance issues need to be addressed if you look at only at overall availability (Kumbhar,
2011).
The issue of security is of paramount importance because all over the world, there is an
increasing use of ATM and so the risks of hacking turn to be a reality more than ever before.
Wang (2003) Expresses the research view that nowadays ATM with magnetic strip authenticated
only by inserting password on the ATM machine. Subha and Vanithaasri (2012) proposed ATM
access with biometric security system which is highly authenticated to the client.
Asabere, Baah and Odediyah (2012) identified in another case study of Botswana relating to
ATM service quality established Speed of operation, and Waiting time as the important
predictors of ATM service quality. The study revealed that the critical features that influenced
customers’ choice of banking products and their adoption were Convenience, Reliability,
Security, Flexibility, Time saving and Ease of use.
According to Bradley and Stewart (2003) the entry of technology and the use of electronic
banking had a great impact and revolutionized the operating style of many public sector banks by
way of introducing anywhere bankingand anytime bankingto meet the customer expectations.
ATM offer real-time service specific information when compared to the traditional banking
services.
According to Kumbhar (2011) cost effectiveness of ATM service was positively and
significantly correlated with the customer satisfaction in ATM service. It shows that cost
effectiveness of the ATM service were core service quality dimension and significantly affecting
customer satisfaction. Banks are using technology to reduce cost and enhance the efficiency.
According to Rosmaini, Aliyu, Gafar, Abubakar, Lame and Takala (2013) cost is one of the main
concerns reported by the respondents which influence service delivery in ATM banking. When
the needs of the customers’ are not satisfied then the customers are dissatisfied due to the bank
charges (cost). The study of Rosmaini et.al has proven that the constructs cost has a strong
evidence of customer satisfaction vie ATM banking.
Idris (2014) conducted imperative for banks’ stakeholders not to restrict their service quality
only on the ease of use and access but also to improve their service quality on security of the
ATM. He has identified the ATM services quality has a direct effect on both perceived ease of
use, perceives accessibility and perceived security. He has taken three independents variables
that measures the ATM customers perception towards satisfaction, these includes ease of use,
accessibility and security. Ease of use is an optimum convenience for customers to interact with
a given system. It is also affirmed that the factors affecting to the customer satisfaction are
determined by the ease of use of ATM. Previous research conducted on ATM service quality
revealed that ease of use directly influence on customer satisfaction level. It refers to how clear
and easy the system is in conducting banking transactions. The study of Adeniran and Junaidu
(2014) covers the major factors affecting customers’ satisfaction in Nigeria such as ease of use.
The positive impact implies that the more the improvement of the ATM services in terms of their
ease of use, more the satisfaction of customers in the use of ATM service. Ease of use of the
ATM services will change the customer satisfaction positively.
Customer satisfaction and different demographic factors are the key elements of the retained
customer base. Afzal, Saeed and Lodhi (2013) found that customer satisfaction and
demographics are highly inter related. Afzal et.al (2013) under their study has converted the
demographic factors into segments such as age, gender and qualification. According to them the
crucial demographic factor that has an impact on customer satisfaction level was age. The study
has a significant relation of impact of customer demographics on customer satisfaction level was
found. Customer satisfaction and different demographics are crucial elements for building
loyalty among customers of banking industry.
3. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
There are five ATM service qualities identified through the literature review that will effect on
the customer satisfaction. This will also identify the demographic factors such as age, gender and
education level of the customers‟ affection of customer satisfaction. Conceptual framework is
the structure that can hold or support the theory of the research study. This connects the existing
knowledge guided by relevant theories that are given a basis for the hypotheses. Conceptual
framework provides an outline of the research. Through the research theories that explain
relationships between ATM service quality and customer satisfaction a comprehensive
understanding of the research issue can be achieved through conceptual framework.
4.METHODOLOGY
The statistical population of the study was all the ATM users of the three state banks in Sri
Lanka. Due to the large sample size, lack of access to all members of statistical population,
being costly and time-consuming, convenience sampling technique was used to obtain a
representative and homogenous sample. Since the population size was unspecified, Cochran’s
formula was used and to calculate sample size is 385. The statistical tools employed in this study
are frequency analysis, factor analysis, regression, and ANOVA (analysis of variance). IBM
SPSS statistics 20 was used to perform statistical analysis.
4.1 VALIDITY
For each of the item scales, factor analysis was used to reduce the total number of items to a
smaller number of underlying factors. Principal components analysis was used to extract factors.
Varimax rotation was used to facilitate the interpretation of the factor matrix. The Bartlett’s Test
of Sphericity and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy were used to validate
the use of factor analysis. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted on the all constructs. The
convergent and discriminant validity of the constructs were tested by principal components
analysis. The KMO index for all the analyses was found to be greater than 0.70, which indicates
the presence of sufficient intercorrelations in the data matrix and the appropriateness of factor
analysis.
4.2 RELIABILITY
Reliability of the factors was calculated using the Cronbach’s alpha. A Cronbach’s alpha value
of greater than or equal to 0.7 is considered acceptable for the factor to be reliable. In the
research all the factors had satisfactory value of Cronbach’s alpha. The Cronbach’s alpha value
for customer satisfaction is 0.777 which is acceptable (Table 4.1). Hence the factors are reliable.
The correlation between the independent variables to dependent variable is described with a
strength and direction of 0.762. The proportion of variance in the dependent variable
(satisfaction) which can be explained by the independent variables (Availability, Security, Time
Cost and Ease of use) is 0.581. The adjustment of the R-squared (0.579) is that penalizes the
addition of extraneous predictors to the model. Std. Error of the Estimate (4.52)referred to as the
root mean squared error. It is the standard deviation of the error term and the square root of the
Mean Square for the Residuals in the ANOVA table (Table 5.3).
Based on the F value and the significance level the model is statistically significant at 99%
confidence level. F value is 454.045 at the .000 level of significance and indicates that the
regression model is significant at .000 level. The regression coefficients for the factors of service
quality on customer satisfaction indicate that of the five factors Availability (β = 0.251), Security
(β = 0.346), Time (β = 0.464), Cost (β = 0.364) and Ease of use (β = 0.240) have a greater
influence on the satisfaction of customer. It can thus be said that the customer satisfaction is
influenced by the Availability, Security, Time, Cost and Ease of use.
6. CONCLUSION
The research problem has been identified as “The importance of factors which influence on
customer satisfaction with relation to the ATM service”. In general the study found that the
proposed model has been supported by the results. The results indicates that of the five
dimensions of service quality reliability, security, time, cost and ease of use are found to be
positively and significantly related to the customer satisfaction, thus satisfying the hypotheses
H1. This is line with the previous studies. Further, with regard the influence of the demographic
factors on the customer satisfaction with the ATM service quality dimensions it is found that
proposed hypotheses H2 were supported, indicating that age of the respondents and their
educational qualification influence the satisfaction levels of the customer towards the ATM
services.The present study can help managers to launch different schemes for different age
groups and for different educational level groups which will further build trust and loyalty and
will enhance customer satisfaction. It is clearly established from the studies that reliability,
security, time, cost and ease of use are important determinants of customer satisfaction. The bank
must focus on improve these service quality in order to retain their customer base.
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