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| MARK0786-1 | Services Marketing and Management
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Cécile Delcourt |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| Services dominate western economies.
In many countries the majority of the workforce is employed in services jobs, and the projected growth for the next decades is overwhelmingly dominated by services. Therefore it seems imperative to study the marketing of services. The specific problems of marketing of organizations that provide services form the central focus of this course.
- Foundations for services marketing and management
- Understanding customer requirements
- Aligning service design and standards
- Delivering and performing services
- Managing service promises |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Explain what services are and identify important trends in services
Explain the need for special services marketing concepts and practices and why the need has developed and is accelerating
Explore the profound impact of technology on service
Outline the basic differences between goods and services and the resulting challenges and opportunities for service businesses
Introduce the expanded marketing mix for services and the philosophy of customer focus, as powerful frameworks and themes that are fundamental to the rest of the text
Introduce the servuction system model and the concept of the services triangle
This course contributes to the following Intended Learning Outcomes :
ILO-2 : Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the proposed fields of concentration or to gain deep knowledge in the field of the management being already specialized through a first University Master Degree.
ILO-4 : To acquire the capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem.
ILO-5 : Integrate autonomously researched information, tools, knowledge and context to build and propose, either individually or as part of a team, original, creative and viable solutions to concrete complex management problems, whether real or simulated, taking into account, when necessary, the human, social and legal context.
ILO-6 : Ability to speak 2 foreign languages: C1 in English and B2 in one other language.
ILO-7 : Being capable of professional team work.
ILO-9 : Developing a critical sense (arguing).
ILO-10 : Developing a transversal, global vision.
ILO-11 : Creative conception of solutions.
ILO-12 : Professional capacity for oral communication.
ILO-13 : Professional capacity for written communication. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Principles of Marketing/Introduction to Marketing |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Business cases
Conferences by service managers Students' presentations
Group work on the field
Visit of point of sales |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| 10 face-to-face sessions of 3 hours each |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Required textbook:
Wilson, Zeithaml, Bitner, Gremler (2012),
Services Marketing: Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm, 2nd edition, McGrawHill
+ a collection of ad hoc scientific articles published in top-tier journals in services. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Business Case (assignments + presentations)
Group work
Written exam |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| Full English
All ad hoc documents will be available on Lola |
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Contacts :
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| Cécile Delcourt: Cecile.Delcourt@ulg.ac.be |
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