____________ is a tool for simultaneously depicting the service process, the points of customer contact and the evidence of service from the customers point of view.
A. Front of Planning
B. Service Blueprinting
C. Service standardization
D. None of these
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__________ is the physical surroundings or the physical facility where the service is produced, delivered and consumed.
A. Servicespace
B. Servicescape
C. Serviceplace
D. Servicescope
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___________ are the only service distributors which do not require direct human interactions.
A. Electronic channels
B. SST’s
C. Direct Service channels
D. Speculative channels
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In the absence of a physical product, service providers need to consider the use of __________ that enable customers to make a judgment on the service quality.
A. Intangible clues
B. Tangible clues
C. Blueprint
D. Performance measures
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Compared with low-contact services, customers of high-contact services are more likely to judge service quality on the basis of:
A. Price of the service
B. Processes used in carrying out the service
C. Intangible outcomes e.g. the performance of an investment portfolio
D. Tangible outcomes
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Which of the following is not generally accepted as being part of the extended marketing mix for services?
A. Product
B. Price
C. Process
D. Practice
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A tool for assessing the level of service quality based on the difference between users expectations and the service experience delivered is:
A. The service dashboard
B. The service quality gap model
C. The balanced scorecard
D. The information value model
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Text messaging is a type of which promotion strategy?
A. Personal selling
B. Sales promotion
C. Direct marketing
D. Public relations
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The element of service quality which is defined as 'the knowledge and courtesy of employees and their ability to convey trust and confidence'
A. Tangibles
B. Reliability
C. Assurance
D. Empathy
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Attributes where consumers can evaluate only during or after the consumption process is known as
A. Credence qualities
B. Experience qualities
C. Search qualities
D. None of the above
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According to Parasuraman, Zeithaml & Benny, the most important determinant of service quality is:
A. Responsiveness
B. Reliability
C. Assurance
D. Empathy
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The moments of interaction between the customer and the service firm are called:
A. Servuction junction
B. critical incidents
C. core service failures
D. service recovery
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Services that do not meet customer expectations are called:
A. service failures
B. critical incidents
C. Servuction failures
D. service recovery
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The difference between desired service and the level of service considered adequate is known as
A. Service quality
B. Tolerance zone
C. GAP
D. SERQUAL
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Service failures involving problematic customer include _________.
A. uncooperative customers
B. breaking company policies
C. verbal and physical abuse
D. all of the above
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What are the five principle dimensions to judge service quality?
A. Reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, tangibles
B. Reliability, response, assurance, empathy, tangibles
C. Reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, targets
D. Reliability, responsiveness aspects, empathy, tangibles
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Consumer complaints tend to be:
A. instrumental and ostensive
B. instrumental and reflexive
C. non-instrumental and ostensive
D. non-instrumental and reflexive
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A firm's reaction to a customer complaint that results in customer satisfaction and goodwill is called a:
A. service recovery paradox
B. service recovery
C. critical incident
D. moment of truth
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The difference between which two expectation standards is the zone of tolerance?
A. Desired service, adequate service
B. Professional service, adequate service
C. Desired Service, optimal service
D. Desired service, advance service
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In a services context, distribution embraces all of the following elements EXCEPT ___________.
A. core services flow
B. product flow
C. information and promotion flow
D. negotiation flow
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