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CONCEPT CHECK
1) A distinct characteristic of services is _____.
(a) Intangibility
(b) Inseparability
(c) Variability
(d) Perishability
(e) Inconsistency
Ans: Tangibility
(a) Intangibility
(b) Variability
(c) Inseparability
(d) Simultaneously
(e) Perishability
Ans : Inseparability
(a) Intangibility
(b) Variability
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(c) Inseparability
(d) Inconsistency
(e) Perishability
Ans : Perishability
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Ans :self-service technologies
(d) Psychological
(e) Atmosphere
7) The services a customer expects are called the _____ service package.
(a) Expected
(b) Augmented
(c) Primary
(d) Secondary
(e) Perceived
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Ans :Primary
(a) Expected
(b) Augmented
(c) Primary
(d) Secondary
(e) perceived
Ans: Secondary
(b) Location
(c) Price
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10) _____ cost refers to the product's purchase cost plus the discounted cost of
maintenance and repair less the discounted salvage value.
(a) Total
(b) Variable
(d) Net
(e) Out-of-pocket
11) A service is any act or performance that one party can offer to another that is
essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything.
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: True
12) An astonishing 80 percent of U.S. companies have not figured out how to get
customers the assistance they need.
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: True
13) Internal
marketing describes the normal work of preparing, pricing, distributing
and promoting services to customers.
(a) True
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(b) False
14) Internal
marketing describes training and motivating employees to serve
customers well.
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: True
15) If expected service falls below perceived service, customers are disappointed.
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: False- this happens when perceived service falls below expected service
16) Aservice company can differentiate itself on three levels: reliability, resilience,
and innovativeness.
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: True
17) The
importance performance analysis is divided into five sections according to
important service elements performance and desired levels.
(a) True
(b) false
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: True
19) Customers whose complaints are satisfactorily resolved still do not become as
loyal as customers who were never dissatisfied.
(a) True
(b) False
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: True
21) What are the five categories of offerings in the product-service mix?
Ans:
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and maintenance, application aids, operator training, installation advice,
warranty fulfillment). In this sense, General Motors is probably more service
intensive than manufacturing intensive. Without its services, its sales would
shrivel.
3. Hybrid - the offering consists of equal parts of goods and services. For
example, people patronize restaurants for both food and service.
4. Major service with accompanying minor goods and services - the offering
consists of a major service along with additional services or supporting
goods. For example, airline passengers buy transportation. The trip includes
some tangibles, such as food and drinks, a ticket stub, and an airline
magazine. The service requires a capital-intensive good—an airplane—for
its realization, but the primary item is a service.
5. Pure service - the offering consists primarily of a service.
What are the five determinants of service quality in order of importance?
Ans:
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CONCEPT CHALLENGE
Ans: Hybrid
(a) Reliability
(b) Responsiveness
(c) Assurance
(d) Empathy
(e) Tangibles
Ans: Responsiveness
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4. _____ refers to the knowledge and courtesy of employees and their ability to
convey trust and confidence.
(a) Reliability
(b) Responsiveness
(c) Assurance
(d) Empathy
(e) Tangibles
Ans: Assurance
5. _____ refers to the ability to perform the promised service dependably and
accurately.
(a) Reliability
(b) Responsiveness
(c) Assurance
(d) Empathy
(e) Tangibles
Ans: Reliability
7. Customers often view a service as fairly homogeneous, caring less about the
provider than the price. Service marketers must therefore _____ their services.
(a) Augment
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(b) Improve
(c) Homogenize
(d) Differentiate
(e) Condense
Ans: Differentiate
(a) Expected
(b) Augmented
(c) Primary
(d) Secondary
(e) Perceived
Ans: Secondary
(a) Horizontal
(b) Vertical
(c) Up-market
(d) Down-market
(e) Sideways
Ans: Vertical
10. Services such as installations, staff training, maintenance, and repair services
and financing are called _____ services.
(a) Expected
(b) Augmented
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(c) Value-added
(d) Facilitating
(e) Optional
Ans: facilitating
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: True
(a) True
(b) False
13. Credence qualities are characteristics the buyer can evaluate before purchase.
(a) True
(b) False
14. Credence qualities are characteristics the buyer normally finds hard to
evaluate even after consumption.
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: true
15. Increasing customer expectations of what the firm will deliver can lead to
improved perceptions of overall service quality.
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(a) True
(b) False
Ans: true
16. Decreasing customer expectations of what the firm should deliver can lead to
improved perceptions of overall service quality.
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: true
(a) True
(b) False
18. Voice of the customer measurements are used to rate the various elements of
the service bundle and identify what actions are required.
(a) True
(b) False
(a) True
(b) False
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20. Quadrant B of the importance-performance analysis shows important service
elements that are not being performed at the desired levels.
(a) True
(b) False
21. What are the four distinctive service characteristics that greatly affect the
design of marketing programs? Explain each of these. How might the
potential buyer look to reduce uncertainty and risk for each of these?
Ans:
Intangibility -To reduce uncertainty, buyers will look for evidence of quality.
They will draw inferences about quality from the place, people, equipment,
communication material, symbols, and price that they see. Therefore, the service
provider's task is to "manage the evidence," to "tangibilize the intangible." Whereas
product marketers are challenged to add abstract ideas, service marketers are
challenged to add physical evidence and imagery to abstract offers.
Service companies can try to demonstrate their service quality through physical
evidence and presentation.A hotel will develop a look and a style of dealing with
customers that realizes its intended customer value proposition, whether it is
cleanliness, speed, or some other benefit.
Inseparability - services are typically produced and consumed at the same time.
Because the client is often present as the service is produced, provider-client
interaction is a special feature of services marketing. To reduce uncertainty and
risk the service provider can learn to work with larger groups and learn to work
faster. By training more service providers the service organization can build up
consumer confidence.
Several strategies exist for getting around this limitation. The service provider can
learn to work with larger groups. Psychotherapists have moved from one-on-one
therapy to small-group therapy to groups of over 300 people in a large hotel
ballroom. The service provider can learn to work faster—the psychotherapist can
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spend 30 more-efficient minutes with each patient instead of 50 less-structured
minutes and can see more patients
Variability - Because services depend on who provides them and when and where
they are provided, they are highly variable. Some doctors have an excellent
bedside manner; others are less patient with their patients. Some surgeons are very
successful in performing a certain operation; others are not. Service buyers are
aware of this variability and often talk to others before selecting a service provider.
Here are three steps service firms can take to increase quality control.
Several strategies can produce a better match between demand and supply in a
service business. On the demand side:
• Differential pricing will shift some demand from peak to off-peak periods.
Examples include low early evening movie prices and weekend discount prices for
car rentals.
• Nonpeak demand can be cultivated. McDonald's pushes breakfast service
and hotels promote mini-vacation weekends.
• Complementary services can be developed to provide alternatives to waiting
customers, such as cocktail lounges in restaurants and automatic teller machines in
banks.
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• Reservation systenis are a way to manage the demand level. Airlines, hotels,
and physicians employ them extensively.
quality.
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4) Gap between service delivery and external communications :Consumer
expectations are affected by statements made by company representatives
and ads. If a hospital brochure shows a beautiful room, but the patient
arrives and finds the room to be cheap and tacky looking, external
communications have distorted the customer's expectations.
5) Gap between perceived service and expected service: This gap occurs
when the consumer misperceives the service quality. The physician may
keep visiting the patient to show care, but the patient may interpret this as an
indication that something really is wrong.
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