Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Japanese
Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Economics Economics Evening Course
Lecture Code G8340100 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name サービス経営論
Subject Name
(Katakana)
サービスケイエイロン
Subject Name in
English
Service management
Instructor CHEN JUNFU
Instructor
(Katakana)
チン ジュンフ
Campus Higashi-Senda Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  First Semester,  OutOfTerm(1st)
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (O1) Inte
Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
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Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week   Language of Instruction J : Japanese
Course Level 2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
Course Area(Area) 24 : Social Sciences
Course Area(Discipline) 04 : Management
Eligible Students
Keywords  
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
The aim of this course is to explain the basic theories of service management. Nowadays services are the crucial force for economic development. They create a lot of new jobs and enhance the quality of life of everyone. As the trend of transforming a manufacturing firm into a service business, services are not limited to service industries, they can be very profitable as the new sources for securing the competitive advantage. In this course, students will be provided a comprehensive picture of service thinking, core concepts, analytic models and theories for service business administration. By the end of the course, students should be able to do the following:
- Understand and explain the basic theories of service management
- Understand the significance of integrating customer focus across the firm 
Class Schedule lesson1 Orientation
lesson2 What is Service and Its Distinctive Characteristics
lesson3 Service Design
lesson4 Physical Evidence and  Servicescape
lesson5 Customer Expectations of Service
lesson6 Customer Perceptions of Service
lesson7 Service Encounter and Service Recovery
lesson8 Employees' and Customer's Roles in Service Delivery
lesson9 Managing Demand and Capacity
lesson10 The Psychology of Waiting and Management
lesson11 Service Communications
lesson12 Pricing of Service
lesson13 Productivity in Service
lesson14 Technology in Service
lesson15 Review

Some adjustments may be made to this course schedule when necessary. 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
・Valarie A. Zeithaml, Mary J. Bitner and Dwayne D. Gremler, SERVICE MARKETING: INTEGRATING CUSTOMER FOCUS ACROSS THE FIRM (6th edition), McGraw-Hill Education, 2013.
・James A. Fitzsimmons, Mona J. Fitzsimmons and Sanjeev K. Bordoloi, SERVICE MANAGEMENT: OPERATIONS, STRATEGY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (8th edition), McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.
・Christian Gronroos, SERVICE MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING: MANAGING THE SERVICE PROFIT LOGIC (4th edition), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2015.
 
PC or AV used in
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Preparation and
Review
All lessons will rely on the textbook and the Reference books. We highly recommend to reviewing after each lesson. 
Requirements none 
Grading Method Terminal exam 100%
 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
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