Services Marketing                                                       MK656


S Balachandran                                                         30 hours 3 credits Elective Course

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Prescribed Text

 

“Services Marketing : Integrating Customer Focus across the Firm” by Valarie A. Zeithaml & Mary Jo Bitner, 4th Edition (2006),  Tata McGraw Hill.

 

References

1.      “Services Marketing : People, Technology, Strategy”  by Christopher Lovelock, 4th Edition (2001), Pearson Education (658.812 LOV)..

2.       “Service Marketing” by Rust, Roland T., Anthony J. Zahorik and Timothy L. Keiningham (1999), Addison-Wesley (658.812 RUS).

3.      “Service Management and Operations” by Haksever, C., Barry Render, Roberta S. Russell and Robert G. Murdick (2000), Prentice Hall (658.812 HAK).

4.      “Essentials of Services Marketing : Concepts, Strategies & Cases” by K. Douglas Hoffman & John E.G. Bateson, Second Edition (2002), Harcourt College Publishers (658.812 BAT).

 

Evaluation

 

1. Class Participation                 15%

2. Case Presentation  (Group)   15%

3. Quiz                                        15%

4. Assignments                          15%

5. End Term Examination              40%

 

 Course Schedule

 

 

Session-wise Schedule (for Session Nos. 1 to 6)

 

Sl.

Nos.

Topics

Textbook

Chapters

Reading

No.

Case / Reference

(D-Discussion; P-Presentation)

1

Services Marketing: Distinctive characteristics

1

 

 

2

Service Quality: Integrated Gaps Model

18

 

1. (D) Sullivan’s Auto World Ford

(To be Distributed)

3

 

 

 

2. (P)  Euro Disney :  An American in Paris (Ref. # 1 : Pp. 602-614)

Case Presentation

4

Consumer Behaviour in Services

2

 

3. (D) Four Customers in Search of Solutions (To be Distributed)

5

Customer Perceptions of Service

4

1

 

6

Customer Expectations of Service

3

 

4. ( P) The Quality Improvement

Customers didn’t Want

(Ref.: Case5 –  Pp. 614-619 in Textbook)

Case Presentation

 

Note: Guideline questions for preparing case presentation are made available, wherevever necessary;

              otherwise the questions at the end of the case may be used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


S. Balachandran: IIM(A), IIT(Madras) alumnus with over 30 years of experience in marketing, general management, strategic planning and consulting.

 


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