Qualidade percebida dos serviços prestados por uma cooperativa de crédito rural

Abstract

This dissertation identified and studied the quality of services rendered by a financial credit cooperative of the Minas Gerais state. The research was accomplished using data collected among its associates. The objectives were to evaluate the service quality noticed by the associates of the services rendered by the cooperative, to identify the associates' profile and the services more frequently used; and to determine the reasons that motivated the associates to become cooperates. The methodology used was a descriptive research, specifically a survey based on a sample of 60 associates and a non probabilistic analysis; to evaluate the noticed quality of the services the SERVQUAL Scale was used. Firstly, a qualitative and exploratory research was accomplished for obtaining information for SERVQUAL's Scale adaptation. Secondly, a quantitative research with SERVQUAL's Scale application and statistical treatment of the data was done. In the analysis of the data, techniques of descriptive and multivariate statistics were used (clusters and discriminant analysis). After the analysis, it was noticed that the adapted scale was capable of evaluating the quality noticed by the associates that answered to the questionnaire. The results allowed concluding that, in spite of the medium values of the quality noticed by the associates and users of the bank services varied from 8.47 to 9.63, indicating general satisfactory quality, there was a group of customers "more demanding" that attributed notes relatively low for three variables of the SERVQUAL Scale. These variables require special attention by the cooperative because they point out the services that must be improved.