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Consumer perception on Agrani Banks service

Perception is a process. It starts with consumer exposure, attending to marketing stimuli

and ends with consumer interpretation. Therefore we can say that perception is, how we see the

services around us. Naturally perception occurs or comes after enjoying or experiencing any

particular service. As perceptions are always considered relative with expectations, so it differs

individual to individual and from culture to culture.

Consumer perception of Service Quality and Consumer satisfaction:

Reliability: Reliability is the measurement of satisfaction or success about the service from

consumers point of view. Reliability always described or viewed through numbers. In our

research 17 out of 21persons, not dissatisfied with the service of Agrani Bank. Therefore we can

say, reliability of Agrani Bank service is around 81%

Responsiveness: It reflects the attentiveness and willingness to help its consumers. That means

when an inquiry or complain is lodge, how fast Agrani bank respond to it. Among 21, only 3

persons said that, the responsiveness of Agrani Bank is Poor. Rest of the population is either

satisfied or neutral with responsiveness of Agrani Bank.

Assurance: It reflects the consumers trust and confidence on the service. High confidence from

consumers on a particular service states that, consumer trust the service. The majority of the

depositors are senior citizens and from rural areas. Therefore they trust Agrani Banks service.

One of the key factors behind their high confidence is, it is a state-owned commercial bank.

Empathy: Defined as the individual attention provides by the Organization towards its

customers. Here the service provider has to think from the consumers point of view. Agrani

Bank has different schemes for the depositor. When a person wants to open a bank account in

Agrani Bank, the manager of that particular branch personally interact with the person. The

manager Shares all the required information and suggests a particular type of account (saving,

current or long term accounts) toward the depositor based on the deposit amount or his

profession.

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Tangibles: Tangibles reflect the physical layout or appearance of equipments and materials.

Tangibles give an image or impression towards its customers about the Bank. Apart from that,

Service Company use tangibles to enhance their image or brand value. Agrani Bank has 906

outlets and 1148 ATM booths (interlinked with 26 Banks). These infrastructures are part of

Tangibles.

Determines of Customer Satisfaction:

Product and Service Feature: Product and service features influenced a customer highly at the

time of evaluation or purchase of the service. The services and products of Agrani Bank are

possible to classify in the Personal, Corporate, Business, Agri & Rural, SME, Merchant, NRB

and Islam divisions. They also offer consumer loans such as Home loan, Computer loan and

agricultural loan.

Consumers Emotions: Consumers emotions also have an impact on their perception about the

service quality. To protect agriculture and farmers of Bangladesh, Agrani Bank offering 10

Taka Accountservice. In this service, a farmer can open his bank account with 10 taka only.

The primary deposit of these accounts will be Tk 10 only without any minimum balance

requirements. In the year 2012, Agrani Bank Limited Donates Tk. 23.98 lakh to install Tube well

at Chittagong University. These initiatives or activities emotionally influence the consumers.

They feel themselves as a contributor in these social activities.

Attri butes for service success and fai lu re: Agrani Bank (former Habib Bank) started its journey

in 1972. It has 906 branches all over the country. Therefore even in the rural areas the Bank is

functioning. Depositors find Agrani Bank Branches very near to their house. It is one of the keyfactors behind the success of Agrani Bank.

Perception of equity or fairness: Private Banks of Bangladesh deals differently with its

depositors based on their deposit amount. While Agrani Banks personal banking service its

standardized. Same service is applicable for all depositors. Therefore, questions may arise in this

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case. Many depositors think that, it is unfair practice. Service standard should be set based on the

deposit amount.

Other Consumers and Famil y members: It is similar with referencing. When a service becomes

famous, Reference works like a magic. Agrani Bank (former Habib Bank) started its journey in

1972. Therefore almost every elder person of a family knows about the Bank. Their reference

and involvement with Agrani bank will inspire new generation.

E-service Quality of Agrani Bank:

The official website of Agrani bank ishttp://www.agranibank.org.In our consumer research we

found very interesting thing. Many of the depositors future expectation from Agrani Bank is,

online Banking service. But they do not even know that the service is already established. This

initiative is taken by the Head office of Agrani Bank but the local branches do not encourage its

consumer to use the online service. They do not even bother to inform the depositors that, the

online service is already established and more than 280 outlets are incorporating with online

banking.

Efficiency: Reflects the ability of consumers to access in the website, retrieving his\her desire

information. Basically this part talks about how fast the webpage loads. The website of agrani

bank is much faster than many other banks. Therefore we can say that, the website of Agrani

Bank is efficient enough to process the information.

Fulfillment: It reflects the result. Whatever the visitor wants to know from the website, is the

website sufficient enough to provide that information or not. Every service related information

and Financial reports of Agrani Bank can be found in their website.

Reliability: Its about the numbers. How many times a web visitor successfully retrieves their

desire information through the Website of Agrani bank? The main purpose of the website is to

share the information with its clients. Therefore if we talk about the information quality, the

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website is reliable and sufficient enough. But the online banking service is not available in the

website. So the website is not reliable in term of online banking function.

Responsiveness: The website of Agrani bank is responsive enough. Whenever an applicants

submits his\her CV for a particular post, Agrani bank sends him a confirmation mail. That means

the applicant can easily understand that his CV is in the database of the Bank. But the online

response is not very fast, it takes up to 48 hours to inform an applicant.

Privacy: The website of Agrani bank is secured enough. They never shares applicant personal

information such as address, phone or email with third parties for marketing purpose. It also

protects depositors accounts related information.

Contract: Through their website a visitor will be able to know the history, address and phone

number of every branch, Location of ATM booths. That means all information to contact with

the bank available in the website.

Sources of pleasures and Displeasure:

Recovery: Recovery process starts when there has been a service failure. It talks how the

employees of Agrani bank response to service delivery system failures. If a depositor finds that

his money is not transferred or added successfully, the authority collect the account number and

phone number from the depositor. Whenever the Bank able to fix the service, they inform it to

the depositor through a phone call. Its a time consuming process. It may lead depositors to

dissatisfaction.

Adaptability: Adaptability is the learning part. The process of learning from the previous

mistakes and incorporate the learning. Banking service of Agrani Bank is not efficient enough. It

may take more than 3-4 hours to withdrawn money or to pay the electricity bill because of heavy

crowd. But the bank is not taking any major initiatives to change this scenario. Sometime it

frustrates the consumers.