Services Marketing chapters 5 - 8

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Services Marketing chapters 5 - 8
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Frage 1

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If queues are unavoidable, managers should consider all of the following EXCEPT:
Antworten
  • involve customer in part of the service process during the wait
  • provide electronic news displays or videos
  • occupy customers during the wait
  • design queuing to give the impression of constant progress
  • scheduling staff breaks during peak times

Frage 2

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Which of the following does an effective pricing strategy do?
Antworten
  • Keeps prices below costs
  • Keeps price levels below the target customers’ willingness to pay
  • Fulfill the promise of the value proposition
  • Eliminates non-monetary costs

Frage 3

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The traditional communications mix can be divided into two distinct channels – those that are:
Antworten
  • controlled by the organisation and those that are controlled by the media
  • controlled by the organisation and those that are not
  • controlled by the organisation and by the media

Frage 4

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Which of the following is a method which cannot be used to create alternative demand for otherwise wasted capacity?
Antworten
  • Use capacity for service differential
  • Reward employees
  • Customer and channel development

Frage 5

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A cost management system that provides a structured way of thinking about the relationship between activities and the resources they consume is known as:
Antworten
  • activity-based costing
  • yield-based costing
  • volume-based costing
  • margin-based costing

Frage 6

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Advances in _________ and computer ­­­­_________ have spurred many new approaches to ________ delivery.
Antworten
  • service; technology; telecommunications
  • telecommunications; technology; service
  • telecommunications; complexity; service

Frage 7

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Wirtz and Mattila found the _________ is more important than _________ alone in achieving customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Antworten
  • compensation offered; apology
  • attitude of staff; apology
  • recovery process; compensation

Frage 8

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Which of the following may NOT be used by a manager of a service organisation to adjust or tailor capacity to match fluctuating levels of demand?
Antworten
  • Use more permanent employees
  • Anticipate the peak and off-peak periods of customer demand
  • Train employees for multiple roles

Frage 9

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Another finding is that self-service technology (SST) _________ are better predictors of SST _________ than individual _________.
Antworten
  • differences; adoption; characteristics
  • differences; adoption; differences
  • performances; adoption; differences

Frage 10

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Which of the following methods can help marketers smooth out seemingly random fluctuations in demand?
Antworten
  • Breaking down demand on a segment-by-segment basis
  • Assuming all customers schedule services to meet the same needs
  • Streamlining processes to enable greater throughput

Frage 11

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Services often invite performance and pricing abuses for which of the following reasons?
Antworten
  • Customers may not be present when the work is being performed.
  • Customers may not have the technical skills necessary to evaluate performance.
  • Quality and benefits may be difficult to evaluate even after delivery.
  • All of the above

Frage 12

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A customer who perceives high levels of _________ worries about when and how she will be able to find, evaluate and select a service provider.
Antworten
  • performance risk
  • social cost
  • time and effort cost

Frage 13

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In which of the following situations would an organisation benefit most from exporting directly?
Antworten
  • High degree of customer interaction, low control over sources of value creation
  • Low degree of customer interaction, high control over sources of value creation
  • Low degree of customer interaction, low control over sources of value creation

Frage 14

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In which situation are optimum and maximum capacities most likely to be the same?
Antworten
  • A live concert performance
  • Public transport
  • An aircraft with high-density seating
  • None of these; the two measures are never equal

Frage 15

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Two methods which Google uses to enable organisations to display their ads at websites which are part of the Google content networks are:
Antworten
  • AdWords and ease of use
  • ease of use and AdSense
  • AdWords and AdSense

Frage 16

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When considering options for managing capacity, service managers need to consider all of the following EXCEPT:
Antworten
  • impact on desired levels of service
  • organisation’s ability to implement
  • competitive influences
  • inventory levels

Frage 17

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The use of globalised corporate banking, insurance and management consulting are examples of:
Antworten
  • technology drivers
  • competition drivers
  • market drivers

Frage 18

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Service managers require substantial information to help them develop effective demand management strategies and to monitor subsequent marketplace performance. Among others, information needs include the following EXCEPT:
Antworten
  • sound cost data
  • consumption data
  • historical data
  • forecasts

Frage 19

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_________ developed and popularised service blueprinting after studying techniques for industrial process design and control of workflows.
Antworten
  • Kotler
  • Zeithaml
  • Shostack
  • Sviolka

Frage 20

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The most important thing that Woolworths did to have a smooth transition to their new self-serve technology and educate their customers was to:
Antworten
  • have a staff member available to answer customer queries
  • have an online information sheet
  • send out information fliers to regular customers
  • post explicit instructions at the checkout
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