Online Course Guide of WHU –
Find all modules and courses of our degree programs.
Please use the filters below to select the term (spring or fall) as well as the respective program (BSc, MSc, MBA, Exchange, Doctoral) of your choice for an overview of all modules offered at WHU. The courses are listed under the modules. Please click on a module to see which courses are part of it. If you would like to find out more about a certain course, click on the name of the course to see detail information. The location of the lecture will be revealed after your course registration on myWHUstudies.
Spring term counts from January - August, fall term counts from September - December.
Important for Exchange Students: As the Full-Time and Part-Time MBA Programs utilize a modular course structure, the dates on which students begin and end the exchange are flexible. Please find here a chronological overview of the preliminary course offering for Fall and Spring.
Services Marketing
The objective of this course is to prepare students for advanced careers in marketing management by enabling them to understand and ultimately being able to influence consumers' behavior by means of advertising and other marketing communications, while maintaining high ethical standards. In doing so, students will first be introduced to important key concepts and theories of consumer psychology. Next, students will be exposed to the concept of integrated marketing communications as well as the planning, creation, and capturing the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
(Please note that exchange students obtain a higher number of credits in the BSc-program at WHU than listed here. For further information please contact directly the International Relations Office.)
Course Content
- Service types
- Service properties
Customer strategy
- Transactional marketing
- Relationship marketing
- Engagement marketing
- Loyalty programs
Experience management
- Human experience & perception
- Customer experience management
- Customer journey
- Customer touchpoints
Encounter management
- Interpersonal influences
- People management
- Process & technology management
- Encounter environment management
- Encounter outcomes
- Service failure and recovery
- Objective outcomes
- Subjective outcomes
- GAPS model of service quality
Class Dates
Date
Time
Learning Outcomes
- Outline the psychological principles underlying prosperous customer-firm relationships.
- Differentiate between the mindsets of firms’ relational versus transactional strategic orientations.
- Reflect on the central relevance of customer loyalty and its relation to experienced service quality and customer satisfaction.
- Acknowledge the critical role of frontline employees and the principles of functioning service delivery.
- Design effective services to nurture loyal customers.
- Analyze and interpret critical service outcomes.
- Implement mechanisms to recover successfully from service failures.