Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- communicate ideas, knowledge, and arguments with brevity and clarity.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the nature, characteristics, and issues involved in internal and external management of service marketing.
- the nature, characteristics, and importance of services and service marketing;
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically evaluate the service experience, so that it can be effectively managed;
- critically analysing current and future service marketing situations that will lead to effective decision making.
- demonstrate a critical appreciation of service problems, and how theoretical and empirical understanding of these problems can be used to enhance the practice of services marketing;
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 116 |
Teaching | 34 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Journal of Service Management.
European Journal of Marketing.
Journal of Services Marketing.
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
Textbooks
Hoffman, K. Douglas and John E.G. Bateson (2017). Services Marketing: Concepts, Strategies and Cases. South-Western Cengage.
Zeithaml, V. A., Bitner, M. J., Gremler, D. D., and Pandit, A. (2016). Services Marketing: Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm, (3rd Ed.). McGraw Hill.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External