Dimensões da qualidade na prestação de serviços: um estudo ambientado nos laboratórios da Universidade de Caxias do Sul

Abstract

This work presents a study on the quality attributes and dimensions of the services offered by the accredited laboratories or in accreditation process of the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS), on a company based perspective. The operationalization of the research was done thru the application of sixteen individual interviews, with a semi-structured approach. With the identification of the attributes in a qualitative process, was elaborated a structured questionnaire, which was applied in 160 companies, resulting in 147 valid cases. In factorial analysis, 28 attributes were grouped into seven analysis dimensions or factors, which represent an explication factor of 70,32% of variation from the original data. Furthermore, by means multiple linear regression, it was possible to explain a 64,7% general satisfaction index of the companies only with these seven attributes.