Services Marketing People, Technology, Strategy 8th Edition Christopher H Lovelock, Jochen Wirtz - Solutions

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Describe the most frequently used patterns of organization in public presentations.
Write an effective outline for a presentation.
Present an effective introduction that captures the interest of your audience in your topic, the purpose of the speech, and the development of the talk.
Apply design principles to improve the way you make visuals for presentations.
Understand when and why you should use visual resources in your speech.
Describe methods for managing your communication apprehension.
Name and explain each of the vocal and nonverbal aspects of delivery.
Explain four methods of delivery.
Utilize strategies for improving your nonverbal communication.
Understand how objects are used in nonverbal communication.
State the factors that determine the amount of personal space you use.
Describe the role of physical attraction in communication.
Recognize the types of bodily movement in nonverbal communication.
Define and identify nonverbal codes.
Identify two problems people have in interpreting nonverbal codes.
Describe how verbal and nonverbal codes work in conjunction.
Engage in ethical listening behaviors.
Adapt strategies for effective listening to specific situations, including the workplace, the classroom, and mediated environments.
Use critical thinking, nonverbal, and verbal strategies to become a better listener.
Analyze how noise, perceptions, and your own characteristics can influence the listening process.
Define and describe various types of listening as a process.
Discuss three reasons why listening is important in our lives.
Describe how bargaining and behavioral flexibility can be used to improve interpersonal communication skills.
Name three essential interpersonal communication behaviors.
Explain a motive for initiating, maintaining, and terminating relationships.
Name and explain the three stages in interpersonal relationships.
Explain the importance of cross-cultural relationships.
Describe friendships and how they have changed.
Describe how self-disclosure affects relationships.
Explain the importance of interpersonal relationships.
Define interpersonal relationships.
Practice some strategies for improving intercultural communication.
State the characteristics of various cultures, such as individualism, certainty, and time.
Distinguish between dominant and non-dominant cultures.
Explain why the study of intercultural communication is important for you.
Utilize skills necessary for effective and ethical group communication.
Discuss two technology tools that can be used to facilitate small-group communication.
Enact a process for group problem solving and decision making.
Describe how effective leadership is accomplished in small groups.
Compare and contrast task, maintenance, and self-centered roles in groups.
Clarify the two functions of small groups.
Explain how culture develops in small groups.
Explain what characterizes small-group communication.
Use language effectively.
Understand the characteristics of language.
Define language and understand how it works.
Define identity management and describe how it influences your perception of self and others.
Recognize how the choices you make about whom you communicate with and how you communicate with them are influenced by your view of yourself.
Identify errors you might make when you perceive others that affect your communication with them.
Differentiate among figure and ground, proximity, closure, and similarity in communication examples.
Describe how selection, organization, and interpretation occur during perception and how they affect the way you communicate with others.
Explain some of the reasons why people can perceive things differently.
Identify factors in the perceptual process.
Describe what perception is.
Set goals for improving yourself as a communicator.
Explain how the contexts of communication differ from each other.
Explain some principles of communication.
Name the components of communication.
Define communication.
State reasons why the study of communication is essential.
1.. How do concepts such as TQM, ISO 9000, and Six Sigma, Malcolm-Baldrige and EFQM approaches relate to managing and improving service quality and productivity?
1.. How can you integrate all the tools in a nine-step approach to improve the quality and productivity of customer service processes?
1.. Why is productivity more difficult to measure in service than in manufacturing firms?
1.. What are the main tools service firms can use to analyze and address service quality problems?
1.. What are the key customer feedback collection tools? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each of these tools?
1.. What are the main objectives of an effective customer feedback system?
1.. Why are both soft and hard measures of service quality needed?
1.. Identify the gaps that can occur in service quality, and the steps that service marketers can take to prevent them.
1.. Explain the relationships between service quality, productivity, and profitability.
1.. Identify the possible behavior of jaycustomers for a service of your choice. How can the service process be designed to minimize or control the behavior of jaycustomers?
1.. How generous should compensation be? Review the following incident and comment. Then evaluate the available options, comment on each, select the one you recommend, and defend your decision. “The shrimp cocktail was half frozen. The waitress apologized and didn’t charge me for any of my
1.. Design an effective service guarantee for a service with high perceived risk.Explain (a) why and how your guarantee would reduce perceived risk of potential customers, and (b) why current customers would appreciate being offered this guarantee although they are already a customer of that firm
1.. What would be an appropriate service recovery policy for a wrongly bounced check for (a) your local savings bank, (b) a major national bank, (c) a private bank for high net-worth individuals? Please explain your rationale, and also compute the economic costs of the alternative service
1.. When was the last time you were truly satisfied with an organization’s response to your complaint. Describe in detail what happened and what made you satisfied.
1.. Think about the last time you experienced a less-than-satisfactory service experience. Did you complain? Why? If you did not complain, explain why not.
1.. What are the different types of jaycustomers and how can a service firm deal with such customers?
1.. Under what conditions is it not suitable to introduce a service guarantee?
1.. How should service guarantees be designed? What are the benefits of service guarantees over and above a good complaint handling and service recovery system?
1.. How generous should compensations related to service recovery be?
1.. Why should a service recovery strategy be proactive, planned, trained, and empowered?
1.. How can a firm make it easy for dissatisfied customers to complain?
1.. What is the service recovery paradox? Under what conditions is this paradox most likely to hold? Why is it best to deliver the service as planned, even if the paradox does hold in a specific context?
1.. Why would a firm prefer its unhappy customers to come forward and complain?
1.. Why don’t more unhappy customers complain? What do customers expect the firm to do once they have filed a complaint?
1.. How do customers typically respond to service failures?
1.. Approach service employees in two or three firms with implemented CRM systems. Ask the employees about their experience interfacing with these systems, and whether or not the CRM systems (a) help them understand their customers better, and (b) lead to improved service experiences for their
1.. Design a questionnaire and conduct a survey asking about two loyalty programs.The first is about a membership/loyalty programs your classmates or their families like best and keep them loyal to that firm. The second should be about a loyalty program that is not well perceived, and does not
1.. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of two loyalty programs, each one from a different service industry. Assess how each program could be improved further.
1.. What conclusions do you draw about yourself and the firms in Exercise 3? How could each of these firms avoid your defection? What could each of these firms do to avoid defections of customers with a profile similar to yours in the future?
1.. Identify two service businesses that you used several times but have now stopped to buy from (or plan to stop patronizing soon). Complete the sentence: “I stopped using (or will soon stop using) this organization as a customer because...”
1.. What conclusions do you draw about (a) yourself as a consumer, and (b) the performance of each of the businesses in Exercise 1? Assess whether any of these businesses managed to develop a sustainable competitive advantage through the way it won your loyalty.
1.. Identify three service businesses that you buy from on a regular basis. For each business, complete the following sentence: “I am loyal to this business because...”
1.. What is the role of CRM in delivering a customer relationship strategy?
1.. Why are loyalty programs often important of a customer loyalty strategy?
1.. What is the role of churn management in an effective loyalty strategy, and what tools can be used to understand and reduce customer churn?
1.. Why are benefits related to the core service (e.g., customization, transaction convenience, and service priority) generally more effective in building loyalty than rewards that are unrelated to the core service (e.g., air miles)?
1.. Identify some key measures that can be used to create customer bonds and encourage long-term relationships with customers.
1.. What is tiering of services? Explain why it is used and what are its implications for firms and their customers.
1.. How can a firm build a foundation for loyalty?
1.. How do the various strategies described in the Wheel of Loyalty relate to one another?

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