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:
Kurs ID
MKT431
Art des Kurses
BSc Kurs
Wochenstunden
2,0
ECTS
3.0
Semester
FS 2022
Vortragssprache
Englisch
Vortragende/r
Prof. Dr. Matthias Gouthier
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Kursinhalt
Introduction to services marketing
- Definition of services and their characteristics
- Importance of services and service industries
- Specialties of services marketing
Managing customer relationships
- Relationship vs. transactional marketing
- Service attributes, expectations and experiences
- Customer satisfaction, delight and loyalty
- Customer value
Service design
- Service Design Thinking
- Service environments
- Blueprinting
Service delivery
- Service profit chain
- Service orientation
- Service culture
- Emotional labor
Service outcomes and implementation
- Service quality
- Complaint handling and service recovery
- Service excellence
The course is limited to 40 participants!
Termine
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Thursday, 10.03.2022 | 15:30 - 18:45 |
| Friday, 11.03.2022 | 08:00 - 11:15 |
| Thursday, 24.03.2022 | 15:30 - 18:45 |
| Friday, 25.03.2022 | 08:00 - 11:15 |
| Thursday, 31.03.2022 | 15:30 - 18:45 |
| Friday, 01.04.2022 | 08:00 - 11:15 |
Lernerfolge
The objective of this class lies in enabling students to comprehend and apply key marketing management paradigms and tools aiming at establishing profitable and lasting customer relationships by means of designing and delivering effective services to customers. Successful participants of this class should be able to:
- Acknowledge the critical roles of perceived service quality, experienced customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty.
- Reflect on the value of a customer.
- Outline the key properties and managerial implications of a contemporary relationship marketing approach.
- Analyze the processes, structures, and mechanisms that shape perceived service outcomes.
- Design efficient and effective customer services.
- Implement mechanisms to recover successfully from service failures.
- Measure the service quality provided by a firm.
- Implement a management system of service excellence.
Literatur
Essential reading: Jochen Wirtz and Christopher H. Lovelock (2018).Essentials of Services Marketing, 3rd edition, Pearson.Additional literature:Jochen Wirtz and Christopher H. Lovelock (2021).Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy, 9th edition, World Scientific.3 Case Studies (tba)
Lernmethoden
Lecturing, in-class discussions, case studies
Art der Prüfung
Final exam 100%
Umfang
90