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DECLARATION
We hereby declare that this project paper is we original work except for quotations and citations
which have been duly acknowledged and that it has not been previously or concurrently
submitted for any degree at UNIVERSITI TENAGA NASIONAL or other institutions.
18 October 2010 JAYANTHY A/P SHUNMUGASIGAMANY
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JESSLYN RAJ A/P CHARLES JEYARAJ
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THATCHEENEE A/P MUNUSAMY
HR082003
YAMUNA DEVI A/P GANAESON
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ADAM HAZREIN BIN HARIS
HR082335
MUHAMMAD NOORAZRIN BIN ABDUL RAZAK
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We wish to record our appreciation and speeches to thank our lecturer that Prof Dr. Hussain AliBekhet for giving us the opportunity to do the research on analyzing about the competition
between Malaysian Airlines Service (MAS) in 2009 among airline passengers of both MAS and
AIRASIA in Kuala Lumpur International Airport and also at the LCCT terminal. Without his
guidance and supervision in completing this thesis project, there would not be a thesis if it were
not for Prof Hussain guidance.
During the period of doing the assignment, we have faced a lot of difficulties and barriers on
collecting data and also analysis. Due to this difficulties and barriers, it had slow down the pace
of the work on this assignment but the support of several individuals does not stop.
Therefore, we had managed to complete the whole assignment with guidance assistance from
those who willing to give guide and assist. Not to forget, we also would like to thank all parties
who have provided support to us in various aspects of the research until assignment essence is
complete successfully. We also want to thank both our parents for supporting us from behind to
done this assignment and also to the member UNITEN because our opportunity to learn subjects
Research Methods in this semester.
Thanks also to members all of our group members, namely Jayanthy, Jesslyn Raj, Thatcheene,
Yamuna , Adam Hazrein and Muhammad Noorazrin because they have tried hard to prepare
this assignment and provide full cooperation. In addition, we also strengthen our friendly
multiracial relations. Thank you.
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ANALYZING THE COMPETITION BETWEEN MALAYSIAN
AIRLINES SERVICE (MAS) IN 2009
ABSTRACT
This dissertation reports the results of research study focused on describing and coming to the
determinants of customer satisfaction on Malaysian Airlines Service among airline passengers in
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and also at the LCCT terminal. This study seeks to
contribute to the development of a conceptual framework that integrates service quality,
corporate image, and level price.
The study was conducted using based on probability sampling in Sepang with focus point is on
the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and also the LCCT terminal area. The research sample
was selected from a range of demographic elements for processing based on convenience
sampling. Methods of data-collection included self-administered questionnaire. Quantitative data
obtained and the data gathered were being treated by using the statistical software program
namely Statistical Package for Social Research (SPSS) version 18.0 for analysis and
summarization purposes.
In preparation for the study, a comprehensive literature review was performed. The literature
review informed the theoretical framework which guided the study. Additional literature, where
needed, was introduced through the data collection and analysis processes. The study uncovered
that service quality, corporate image, and price are found to act on service loyalty via customer
satisfaction. Price has been found to be the most important input to customer satisfaction. It gives
implications for differentiated marketing strategies according to the perceived value and type of
customer loyalty and summative overview topics for further study.
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INTRODUCTION
ANALYZING THE COMPETITION BETWEEN MALAYSIAN
AIRLINES SERVICE (MAS) IN 2009
1.1 BACKGROUND
As a start we have chosen the title of analyzing the competition between Malaysian airlines
system in 2009. The main reason that we have chosen is to do a research on MAS airlines is
mainly to create awareness among the passengers that are boarding MAS about the qualityservice that they have been providing and also to inform the public at large about the challenges
that MAS is facing recently.
Malaysia Airlines began in 1947 as Malayan Airways. However, it was renamed Malaysian
Airways following the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. The company is publicly
called Malaysia Airlines System. While MAS has grown to become Southeast Asias largest
airlines, it also becomes one of the worlds premier international carriers.
Recently, MAS had been suffered high losses over the years because of the fuel price increases
and poor management. Malaysias government overhauled the operations of the airline. Under
Idris Jala who was appointed as the new CEO in 1 December 2005 leadership, Malaysia Airlines
unveiled its Business Turnaround Plan (BTP) in February 2006 which highlighted low yield, and
an inefficient network and low productivity.
Another factor that has been affecting MAS is the competitive challenges by the newcomer
airasia airlines which have influence the public that everyone can fly at the cheapest rate fare.
These has caused majority of the traveller to switch airlines to airasia because of the cheap air
price, zero fuel price and also provide a discount for their members.
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Because of this issues that MAS has been facing, thus it has made us excited and also increased
our curiosity to do research about MAS airlines which we believe will benefit everyone
especially the airline passengers.
1.2 QUESTIONS OF THE RESEARCH:
1. Does the passenger have enough knowledge about MAS service?2. What are the competitive effects faced by MAS?3. Is the challenge faced by MAS, will lead to the decline of MAS?4. What is the knowledge that MAS must possess when it comes to competitions?5. How to help MAS to overcome the barriers from its competitors?
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH:
1. To ensure that the passenger have the complete knowledge about MAS service provider.2. To understand the effects of having competition between other airlines.3. To identify the challenges faced by MAS by analyzing the factors contributing to its
decline
4. To increase the knowledge and awareness about competitiveness in the airline services.5. To restrain MAS by improving its structure and strategy.
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1.4 PROBLEM STATEMENT
In order to completed this research, our group are also faced some problems. But we try to
handle it together and give full commitment to complete this research. So we have discussed the
problem and finish it together. All of the group members try to agree and respect with others
ideas when make a decision. We had the problem such as dont have enough material which is
the information. We need more information from many resources to complete this project. To
solve these problems, our group members always refer to our lecturer. Beside that we try to find
the article that related to the topic from the internet such as the UNITENs library online
database and also other website.
We also have a financial problem. We dont have enough money in because conducting theresearch will cost the money to get more information. We also need money to make more copy
of the questionnaire and distribute it to the public, printing, binding and so on. But we try to find
the solution together to overcome this problem such as collect the money from all group
members to cover all the cost and expenses that will incurred during this research. Besides that,
we also faced the problems to get the best solution about the determination of customer
satisfactoin at the Kuala Lumput International Airport and also at the LCCT terminal. From the
airline passengers we were able to know their perception. To get the information, we will
distribute the questionnaire to the airline passengers to get their opinion about the things that we
were discussed.
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1.5 SIGNIFICANT OF STUDY
This study is apparently one of the first few attempts to knowing the determinants of customer
satisfaction on airline services among the airline passengers in KLIA and also at the LCCT
terminal. This study would therefore, try to provide some feedback from consumer perception
refers to the product quality, level of services that are being provided, level of price, brands and
level of satisfaction with the service provide. Based on the research question, we will know how
to cope with this problem and knowing the views of consumer on the purchase price
commensurate with quality airline services. In this research consumers perceive price in both
positive and negative roles that ultimately influence purchasing behavior. The findings of this
study could provide some information how to determine the variety of airline services available
in term of purchasing decision It could perhaps also help the passengers among the airline
passengers to solve the solution either to pay more or pay less for the service that are being
provided.
1.6 SCOPE OF STUDY
This study focuses on determinant of customer satisfaction on the services that are being
provided by the types of airlines, which has five major independent at time of writing which are
experience of the airline quality, service, level of price, level of satisfaction and brands with the
service provider. The data for this study was collected through self-administered questionnaire
during the period from 02th Oct 2010 to 09th Oct 2010. Periodical researches have been referred
in justifying and supporting the design of an effective research study. Reviewing the literatures
could provide a basis for revising the proposed study by extending parts of previous studies. It
also gives an idea to researchers on how to conduct a study. Based on literature review, the scope
of this study uses perceived all the element of independent and customer satisfaction as
dependent variable.
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1.7STRUCTURE OF STUDY
This paper is divided into five chapters that covered Introduction, Literature Review,
Research Methodology, Research Result, and Conclusion & Recommendation. The
outlines of the five chapters are as below.
Chapter 1: Introduction
This chapter gives an overview of the study. It contains general introduction to the issues with
which the study is concerned, purposes and significance of the study, followed by the research
objectives, and scope of the study.
Chapter 2: Literature Review
This chapter assesses to previous literature and studies relevant to the fields and related topics. A
literature review also provides a rationale for the proposed study by placing it next to previous
studies.
Chapter 3: Research Methodology
It describes and explains the research methodology used in the study. Key topics of this chapter
include theoretical framework, methodologies, and hypotheses, selection of measures, sampling
design, data collection procedures, and data analysis techniques.
Chapter 4: Research Result
This chapter describes overall findings, summarizes the statistics of respondents, result of
statistical analysis, and discussion of the research result. Results and data analysis are presented
in the form of text, figures, tables, etc.
Chapter 5: Conclusion and RecommendationIn this chapter, the findings are summarized and implications of the findings are being discussed.
It looks at the implications of the findings practice, accepted theoretical model or paradigm,
limitation of study and indicate the overall importance of the research to the field. This chapter
also outlines recommendation for future research.
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LITERATURE REVIEW
2.0LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter assesses to previous literature and studies relevant to the fields and related topics. A
literature review also provides a rationale for the proposed study by placing it next to previous
studies. For our research project, the literature review is to help us to identify theories and ideas
that we test using data. It will plan to explore our data and develop theories from it that we will
subsequently relate to the literature.
2.1 Our research questions are:
1. Does the passenger have enough knowledge about MAS service?
2. What are the competitive effects faced by MAS?
3. Is the challenge faced by MAS, will lead to the decline of MAS?
4. What is the knowledge that MAS must possess when it comes to competitions?
5. How to help MAS to overcome the barriers from its competitors?
2.2 Our research objectives are:
1. To ensure that the passenger have the complete knowledge about MAS service provider.
2. To understand the effects of having competition between other airlines.
3. To identify the challenges faced by MAS by analyzing the factors contributing to it decline
4. To increase the knowledge and awareness about competitiveness in the airline services.
5. To restrain MAS by improving its structure and strategy.
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From our research objective and research question, we can identify the relationship regarding the
concept that determinant of customer satisfaction are on the (1) product quality, (2) service, (3)
level of price, (4) brands and (5) level of satisfaction with the service provide.
Service quality:
Customer satisfaction often depends on the quality of product or service offering. Inthe context
of services, some describe customer satisfaction as an antecedent of service quality (Bitner,
1990; Cronin and Taylor, 1992). Service quality is thus related, though not equivalent, to
satisfaction (Oliver, 1980). For this reason, research on customer satisfaction is often closely
associated with the measurement of quality(East, 1997).
Customer satisfaction can thus be based not only on the judgment of customers towards the
reliability of the delivered service but also on customers'experiences with the service delivery
process (Naser et al., 1999).De Ruyter et al. (1997) summarized the conceptual gap between the
two constructs as the following: customer satisfaction is directly influenced by the intervening
variablesof disconfirmation (the difference between perceptions and expectations), whileservice
quality is not; satisfaction is based on predictive expectation while service quality is based on an
ideal standard expectation; and the number of antecedents of the two concepts differ
considerably. Therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate the relative importance of service quality
dimensions to customers satisfaction.
In summary, satisfaction and quality seem like twin concepts, both revolving around expectation,
experience, perception and evaluation of service as key variables (Jamali, 2007). The conclusion
by Jamali (2007) is that satisfaction is a super-ordinate construct to service quality, and that a
management-by-satisfaction approach will necessarily need to integrate the various quality
dimensions. Satisfaction is a super ordinate construct because it can result from a large variety ofdimensions that may lie beyond those specified in the gap model and the SERVQUAL
instrument. As illustrated in Figure 2.4, aside from an assessment of the basic service quality
dimensions, a number of affective processes (equity considerations, emotions, attributions, cost
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benefit analyzes, and tolerance zones) have also been found to influence customers subjective
assessments and their overall satisfaction (DeRuyter et al., 1997).
Figure 2.4: Relationship between Customer Satisfaction and Service Quality
(Source: Jamali, D. (2007), A Study of Customer Satisfaction in the Context of a
Public Private Partnership.)
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Product quality:
Quality has been widely discussed in the literature (e.g. Juran 1951; Crosby 1979; Gronroos
1982; Garvin 1984). But what does quality really mean in todays context?. The customer is the
key to define quality, and a companys internal definition of quality is meaningless if it fails to
reflect consumer requirements (Hansen and Bush 1999). Therefore, in todays context, there is
an intense focus on meeting and exceeding customer requirement, and this leads to the concept
of perceived quality.
In current study, product quality is defined from customers point of view, as customers
judgment of the superiority of the product. Many researchers (e.g. Stone- Romero, Stone and
Grewal 1997; Sousa and Voss 2002) have provided the empirical evidence of multi-
dimensionality of the product quality construct. Among them, Garvins eight dimensions (Garvin
1987, 2001) is one of the most widely accepted frameworks for measuring product quality. The
eight dimensions are performance, features, reliability, conformance, durability, serviceability,
aesthetics and perceived quality. Most of the dimensions could be understood from respective
names. Perceived quality dimension though, refers to the image or reputation of a product instead
of the overall quality judgment. His framework is considered as a basis on which to develop
industry specific measurable attributes (Karnes, Sridharan and Kanet 1995). Yet no matter how
extensive the scale is, Reeves and Bednar (1994) stated that there is a need to develop conceptual
frameworks and measuring methods of product quality in specific context.
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Brand or corporate image:
According to Nguyen & LeBlanc, satisfaction has no significant direct effect on brand or
corporate image. However, it contradicts with other findings that indicate that corporate image is
a function of the accumulated effect of satisfaction or dissatisfaction (Bolton & Drew, 1991;
Fornell, 1992). In other way, image acts as a filter of satisfaction in a simplification of the
decision process that was indicated in the works of Weiner (1985) and Folkes (1998). However,
it can be seen that in the study of Nguyen & LeBlanc (1998), there is an indirect effect on image
through the perceived value of the service. It reinforces the assertion of Barich & Kotler (1991)
that a company has a strong image if the clients believe that they receive good value in their
transactions with the company. Andreassen & Lindestad (1998) verified that corporate image has
a string influence on customer satisfaction, especially if the customer has little knowledge about
the service.
Price:
It is common knowledge that price influences a customers buying decision. Although
companies offering superior service levels are able to charge a slightly higher price than their
competitors are, the marginal difference is often modest and requires a better than average
performance on service quality (Gale, 1992), which then jeopardizes the cost effectiveness.
Among the several factors that affect to customers buying behavior, two important ones are
price and quality of service (Jacoby & Olson, 1977). This means that there is trade-off
between price and service quality (Tse, 2001) which is most often materialized in terms of
customer satisfaction. As such, price has been observed as an important element affecting to
customer satisfaction paradigm.
Zeitham et al. (1990) have suggested that improving service quality in the eyes of customerscreates true customers through higher customer satisfaction. Although Nagle and Holden
(2002) believe that price merely represents the monetary value a buyer must give to a seller as
part of a purchase agreement, customers price perception is closely related on their perception
of quality, value and other beliefs. It is more or less known how customers of mobile service
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perceive the charged prices and what are the dynamics affecting to price perceptions. The
perceived price is formed from the bases of a customers experience about mobile services and in
comparison to prices of other optional service delivery channels.
The marketing literature emphasizes price as an important factor of consumer satisfaction,
because whenever consumers evaluate the value of an acquired product or service, they usually
think of the price (Fornell, 1992; Cronin et al., 2000). As for the relationship of price to
satisfaction, Zeithaml and Bitner (1996) indicated that the extent of satisfaction was subject to
the factors of service quality, product quality, price, situation, and personal factors.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.0DATA and METHODOLOGY
There are many ways to get information. The most common research methods are: literature
searches, talking with people, focus groups, personal interviews, telephone surveys, mail
surveys, email surveys, and internet surveys.
In this project, we going to focus on internet surveys because it is clearly the most cost effective
and fastest method of distributing a survey and to search for the information needed for our
research. Since the data for the major and giant company are often updated on their companys
profile page on the internet, we decided that we going to refer most of the information needed
from the internet. Before doing online research, we going to carefully consider the effect that
this bias might have on the results and the authenticity of the information through compare and
contrast method
Along with internet online research, we going to conduct literature search involves reviewing all
readily available materials. These materials can include internal company information, relevant
trade publications, newspapers, magazines, annual reports, company literature, on-line data
bases, and any other published materials. It is a very inexpensive method of gathering
information, although it often does not yield timely information. Literature searches over the web
are the fastest, while library literature searches can take weeks.
Other than that, we also are going to interview some of the people. Talking with people is a good
way to get information during the initial stages of a research project. It can be used to gather
information that is not publicly available, or that is too new to be found in the literature.Examples might include meetings with prospects, customers, suppliers, and other types of
business conversations at trade shows, seminars, and association meetings.
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We also conducting a survey to a focus group and we going to distribute a set of questionnaire
that contain question that are related to the company that we chosen. Used as a preliminary
research technique to explore peoples ideas and attitudes. It is often used to test new
approaches, and to discover public concerns.
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3.1Research Design
Research design can be thought of as the structure of research. It is the glue that holds all of the
elements in a research project together. We often describe a design using a concise notation that
enables us to summarize a complex design structure efficiently. What are the elements that a
design includes? It was observation, questionnaire, group, treatment and much more.
In this research, we have using the questionnaire as part as our research design.
A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for
the purpose of gathering information from respondents. Although they are often designed
for statistical analysis of the responses, this is not always the case. The questionnaire was
invented by Sir Francis Galton.
In the questionnaire that we had distributed consist of 25 questions which is 3 question is more to
a demographic section and 8 question in related to their opinion which is we provide a scale for
them to choose that related to the case that we had study.
We want to research and learn the factors influencing airline passengers in choosing the airline
service that they are more interested in flying with. Today, there are so much different types of
airline service that are being provided for people to choose and this selection processes are
widely affected by many factor that eventually has been a competition for the Malaysian Airline
Service. Our variable of primary interest which is the dependent variable is the satisfaction
towards Malaysian Airline Service. The variance of the choosing procedure can be generally
explained by five independent variables which are (1) product quality, (2) service, (3) level of
price, (4) level of satisfaction with (5) brands.
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The above mentioned hypotheses are organized in the following research framework:
All the independent variables will affect the customer satisfaction on using Malaysian Airline
Service. Product quality is defined from customer point of view, as customer judgment of the
superiority of the service being provided. Perceived quality dimension though, refers to the
image or reputation of a product instead of the overall quality judgment. Service quality is taken
from customer point of view, as customer judgment about the superiority of the service. This
research also provide the airline industry with an understanding of benefits and costs in relation
to use of airline, and this understanding should help MAS make industry-wide decisions to
ensure that the use of the airline service impacts the quality of life of users in positive way and
also it would be an advantage were it would reduce the competition for MAS.
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3.2Research Hypotheses
The research hypotheses were developed based on the conceptual framework above.
Hypothesis 1: Service quality has a positive effect on customer satisfaction.
Hypothesis 2: Corporate image has a positive effect on customer satisfaction.
Hypothesis 3: Price has a positive effect on service loyalty.
Hypothesis 4: Corporate image is significantly related to customer satisfaction.
Hypothesis 5: The pricing plans are significantly related to customer satisfaction.
Hypothesis 6: Customer satisfaction has a positive effect on service loyalty.
Hypothesis 7: Customer satisfaction is the mediator of the relationship among service
quality, corporate image, and price and service loyalty.
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3.3 TYPES OF INVESTIGATION
There are 3 main types of research investigations. Descriptive research for examples, case
studies, naturalistic and observation which is describes the variables under investigation, but
little else. Relational research not only describes the variables in the investigation, but also tells
us if there is a relationship among the variables we are investigating. Although relational
research can tell us that variables are related, it cannot tell us anything about the causal
relationship among the variables. Experimental research accomplishes everything that
Descriptive and Relational research accomplish, but can tell us the direction of causation among
the variables we are studying.
During the research, by distributing questionnaire to the airline passengers in KLIA and LCCT
terminal is the biggest thing that we had done in collecting data. By the questionnaire, we have
gathered a lot of information to complete our research. These types of studies usually involve the
collection of data in a process when there is some manipulation of a variable that are assume to
affect the outcome of a process being studied. This usually involves keeping other variables
fixed as far as possible.
In many cases the same statistical analysis can be used with either observational or experimental
data. However the validity of any inferences that result from the analysis depends very much on
the nature of the data. An effect that is seen consistently in replications of a well designed
experiment can only reasonably be explained as being caused by the manipulation of the
experimental variables. With an observational study the same consistency of results might be
obtained because all the data are affected in the same way by some unknown unmeasured
variable. The obvious explanation for an effect that is seen in the result of an observational study
may be quite wrong.
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Some experiments cannot be performed either because the variables involved are not
controllable or because the experiment is unethical. For example, suppose that a medical
researcher wants to study the relationship between the levels of certain air pollutants and the
incidence of cancer in cities. Changing the levels of pollutants in cities would probably not be
possible with resources of the researcher, and, even if it could be done increasing levels on
purpose would be unethical. Hence the only study possible may be one involving analyzing the
prevailing levels of pollutants in the atmosphere and cancer rates, with an attempt being made to
allow for the possible effects of some other factors that are thought to influence cancer rates.
This research uses an appropriate approach which is the distribution of questionnaire. We
choose this type of approach it is because it easy to do the survey and not burden the airline
passengers with their busy life. We also can identify the determinants of customer satisfaction on
which airline service that they prefer. It also investigates about theairlinein the matter of price,
service, brand name, quality and design.
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3.4 STUDY SETTING
Data collection for the research strategy is by using survey strategy. The survey had been
developed among the airline passengers. The questionnaire are already distributed to get the
sample to collect the passengers perception about the determinants of customer satisfaction on
airline service particularly MAS. The survey strategy allows capturing vital information with
little effort and expenses. That can make the research easily develop and the purposed is clear
with the straightforward responses. In the other hand the information that will be gathering can
easily analyze. This survey is conduct by group members and the questionnaire is response by
the airline passengers in KLIA and LCCT terminal.
The data analysis will use the SPSS software to ensure the collecting data have been compiling
in systematic way. This is because the SPSS software is effective way to do analysis about the
data that have been collected. SPSS software easy to use to key in the data and SPSS also
calculate all the data.
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3.5 UNIT OF ANALYSIS
One of the most important ideas in a research project is the unit of analysis. The unit of analysis
is the major entity that we are analyzing in our study. It is the 'what' or 'whom' that is being
studied. For instance, any of the following could be a unit of analysis in a study:
y Individualsy groupsy artifacts (books, photos, newspapers)y geographical units (town, census tract, state)y social interactions (dyadic relations, divorces, arrests)
This unit of analysis allows us to recognize important themes, patterns and relationship as we
collect data: in other words, to allow these to emerge from the process of data collection and
analysis. Why is it called the 'unit of analysis' and not something else like the unit of sampling,
because it is the analysis we do in our study that determines what the unit is. For different
analyses in the same study we may have different units of analysis. If we decide to base an
analysis on student scores, the individual is the unit. But we might decide to compare average
classroom performance.
In our research, our units of analysis are the airline passengers. We had focusing on this
population because it would be easier for us to approached them and knowing their perception
and views towards this research. This group had been divided into a different group which is that
they had a different demographic and social class.
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RESEARCH RESULTS
4.0
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CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.0 conclusion
Overall it can be said that MAS has the most potential higher competitive advantage compared to
AIRASIA. This can be seen thru the research that we have done which is by collecting data
about MAS and AIRASIA and also distributing questionnaires. The result shows that MAS
provide a better quality customer satisfaction compared to AIRASIA which focuses more on
price reduction in order to attract their customer.
From the result of the research we find that even though MAS airline fares are higher but still
they were able to provide comfortable service for their customer in where the customer do notmind in paying extra price in order to travel comfortably.
Most of the customers prefer MAS because it is well established in the airlines market compare
to AIRASIA which is new to the market. In this case, corporate image plays an important role
towards customer satisfaction in where customers perceive MAS as an standard airlines which
has an higher corporate image compared to AIRASIA.
5.1 recommendations
Based on our findings from the SPSS, customer has given their suggestions upon improvement
for MAS airlines. First suggestion was that MAS should increase the number of their flights and
routes in order to support the demand of passenger who travels around the world. Thus, through
this increment, the passengers will end up relying more on MAS compared to AIRASIA because
it has sufficient plane and provide additional routes for their passenger who actually do not need
to postponed any vacation due to the sold out tickets.
Next, is the increment in per day flight. Customer suggest that MAS should increase the per day
fly in order to support the customers demand who wants to fly at any times. By this increment
customer will approach MAS all the times as a result of MAS who actually understands the
customers needs and wants.
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Last but not least is the improvement towards the overall management system. Currently MAS is
providing a quality and good management system which can be actually improved for the better
so that customer can rely more on MAS compared to AIRASIA.
6.0 REFERENCES
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