Impact of Servıce Qualıty on Customer Satısfactıon: A Study on Customers of Commercıal Bank of Ceylon PLC Trincomalee District

The present study examines the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction through the SERVQUAL model. In this research service quality dimensions such as Tangibility, Reliability, Assur-ance, Responsiveness and Empathy considered as independent variables and customer satisfaction is con-sidered as dependent variable. For the purpose of present study 56 customers were selected randomly in Trincomalee District and the primary data were collected through administrating structured questionnaire from thoseselected customers. The collected date was analyzed by inferential statistics. Pearson Correla-tion analysis revealed that there is a significant positive correlation between service quality and customer satisfaction. Also the study found that service quality is significantly impact on customer satisfaction. Hence maintaining high quality services in commercial bank will have excellent customer satisfaction where as low quality services will lead to a decline in customer satisfaction which also may result to loss of customers