Training and Motivation: Keys to Improving Service Accuracy in a Government Call Center

Date of Award

11-15-2010

Document Type

Undergraduate Capstone Project

Degree Name

Master of Professional Studies

Organizational Unit

University College, Communication Managament

Disciplines

Applied Communication

First Advisor

Allison Friederichs

Keywords

Call center, Employee motivation, Government work, Service accuracy, Service errors, Training program

Abstract

Teleservice representatives (TSRs) field calls from tens of millions of people on behalf of the Social Security Administration. Currently, agents are not meeting the 90 percent service accuracy expectation, which results in increased call volumes, increased workloads, and increased wait times on the 800 number, and contributes to the loss of public trust in the agency. After conducting primary and secondary research, this Capstone concurrently presents a training program to reduce the occurrence of the most-often committed service error and recommendations to managers to maintain or improve employee motivation. This Capstone asserts that the effectiveness of the training program is increased if employees are motivated to improve their service accuracy.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.

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