Effective Surveillance Management during Service Encounters

2017 ◽  
pp. 118-139
Author(s):  
Angelo Bonfanti
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Service Oriented

This chapter aims to theoretically examine effective surveillance management (ESM) during service encounters within the servicescape and provide a conceptual framework for the study of this topic in a service management perspective. It analyses antecedents, dimensions and effects of ESM. This study especially proposes as antecedents both improving customer service experience along with meeting customers' need for security and implementing a surveillance service-oriented strategy that includes secure and safe servicescape design, deterrent communication, and trained and motivated security staff. This chapter suggests also that the dimensions of ESM (customer-physical service environment encounters, customer-technological surveillance systems encounters, and customer-security staff encounters) contribute to enhancing service quality, experience quality, and staff productivity. The integration of these dimensions, antecedents, and effects create a theoretically grounded framework that can serve as a starting point for future studies about this topic in the field of service management.

Effective Surveillance Management During Service Encounters

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-264
Author(s):  
Angelo Bonfanti
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Service Oriented

This chapter aims to theoretically examine effective surveillance management (ESM) during service encounters within the servicescape and provide a conceptual framework for the study of this topic in a service management perspective. It analyses antecedents, dimensions and effects of ESM. This study especially proposes as antecedents both improving customer service experience along with meeting customers' need for security and implementing a surveillance service-oriented strategy that includes secure and safe servicescape design, deterrent communication, and trained and motivated security staff. This chapter suggests also that the dimensions of ESM (customer-physical service environment encounters, customer-technological surveillance systems encounters, and customer-security staff encounters) contribute to enhancing service quality, experience quality, and staff productivity. The integration of these dimensions, antecedents, and effects create a theoretically grounded framework that can serve as a starting point for future studies about this topic in the field of service management.

A service-oriented perspective of facility management

Facilities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 554-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Coenen ◽  
Daniel von Felten
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Personnel ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Professional Business ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Action Process

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a service-oriented understanding of the field of facility management (FM) and describe the role that services management plays in successful FM. Even though the definitions for FM by European Committee for Standardisation include the term “service” several times, there remains a need for an established management understanding that reflects the service character of FM, while also accounting for its multidimensional management challenges. Design/methodology/approach – This goal is achieved by applying the main characteristics of services management to FM, describing the service-specific perspectives of FM, analyzing the specific quality attributes of FM as a service management discipline and introducing important services management implications for FM. Findings – The article describes in detail how FM can benefit from taking a services management perspective and gives useful implications for managers in the following key fields of action: process management, tangibility management, personnel management and relationship management. Originality/value – Services management knowledge and expertise have the potential to position FM as an even more professional business discipline.

Do task- and relation-oriented customers co-create a better quality of service?

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fung Yi Millissa Cheung ◽  
Wai Ming To
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Service Quality ◽  
Customer Involvement ◽  
Management Literature

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how task- and relation-oriented customers co-create high quality services with frontline employees from the perspective of customer-dominant (C-D) logic. Design/methodology/approach – The authors reviewed the service management literature and identified a number of critical components that help service providers understand the psychology and behaviour of their customers, and how their customers perceive service encounters. The authors tested the theoretical model using a random survey sample of 707 consumers in Hong Kong. Findings – The authors found that information sharing fully mediated the interactive effects of customer involvement and customer motivational orientation on customer perceived service quality and customer satisfaction. These findings support the C-D logic that customers as co-creators of value play a dominant role in service encounters. Research limitations/implications – The authors contribute to the existing management literature by identifying the importance of the C-D logic for service delivery and management. In particular, the involvement of customers with different motivational orientations through information sharing significantly affects customers’ perceived service quality and satisfaction. Originality/value – The paper enhances the understanding of customer’s logic by exploring the conditions and process between customer involvement and service delivery. Further directions for theoretical and empirical research are suggested.

IT Service Personnel

2011 ◽  
pp. 183-192
Author(s):  
Aileen Cater-Steel
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Service Management ◽  
It Service Management ◽  
It Services ◽  
Service Excellence ◽  
It Service ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Effective Service

IT service management best practice frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) aim to improve the quality of service to customers. This study reports on recent surveys and case studies of organizations which have embarked on IT service management improvement. It highlights specific difficulties experienced by organizations in changing the orientation of staff to customer service rather than technology. Six factors were found to be critical in achieving an effective service-oriented philosophy. The factors are support from senior management; the threat or opportunity to outsource IT services; integration of processes to provide end-to-end service; involvement of business stakeholders; culture change of IT staff to service excellence; and the redesign of processes prior to investing in tools.

Sustainability project partnerships in times of crisis: conceptual framework and implications for stakeholder integration

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Grunwald ◽  
Jürgen Schwill ◽  
Anne-Marie Sassenberg
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Early Integration ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Stakeholder Integration ◽  
Design Options

PurposeThis paper aims to analyze the requirements for stakeholder integration in sustainability project partnerships in times of sustainability crisis. Referring to the COVID-19 pandemic as a sustainability crisis that has sensitized consumers and other stakeholders to corporate responsibility for social and sustainability issues, a conceptual framework for stakeholder integration is developed from which implications for designing the potential, process and result quality are derived.Design/methodology/approachIn this conceptual paper, design options for stakeholder integration are derived from open innovation and service management research. Specific crisis-related determinants of stakeholder integration are derived from current corporate social responsibility (CSR) and crisis research taking into account the opportunities and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Design options and crisis-related determinants are then combined to a conceptual framework for stakeholder integration in sustainability project partnerships in times of crisis. Based on this framework, research propositions are derived that provide insights into the design of the potential, process and result quality of stakeholder integration.FindingsThis paper shows that the COVID-19 pandemic can be viewed as a sustainability crisis, which places special entrepreneurial demands on stakeholder integration in sustainability project partnerships. The pandemic offers potential for integrating a large number of stakeholders and has emphasized the need for integrating a broad range of stakeholders. Higher skepticism of stakeholders toward companies' CSR engagement in the pandemic has raised stakeholder demands for early integration. Higher skepticism and CSR involvement have rendered active forms of integration even more relevant, which, however, should still be adapted to the respective stakeholder prerequisites. The pandemic has increased the need for constant and comprehensive exchange of data on project results between stakeholders and the project leading organization. Measurement of target achievement can be promoted by establishing stakeholder commitment with regard to the target measures on the collective and relationship levels of the partnership. Finally, the pandemic has reinforced the need for more dialogical forms of communicating sustainability project results.Originality/valueSolving problems and exploiting opportunities in times of crisis require a high degree of entrepreneurship and creative leadership in order to gain new ideas and overcome resource deficits. Sustainability project partnerships in which various stakeholders contribute resources and knowledge to collaborate on idea development and finding solutions to sustainability issues are suitable for this. However, previous approaches to stakeholder integration in open innovation and service management research largely neglect the crisis context and only a few are related to sustainability. In CSR and crisis research, stakeholder-related approaches to coping with crises tend to be underrepresented, and the comprehensive concept of stakeholder integration has so far hardly been considered as an approach to crisis management. By taking into account the COVID-19 pandemic as a sustainability crisis, this paper provides new impulses for the integration of stakeholders in sustainability project partnerships in times of crisis. Recommendations for the design of the potential, process and result quality are derived, which provide insights for project leaders and stakeholders alike. In addition, implications for public policymakers are derived, who are assigned an increasingly active role in the pandemic and who can contribute to the success of sustainability project partnerships by setting suitable framework conditions. The developed concept can be expanded to include further company-related determinants and offers a starting point for empirical analysis in the still underexplored research fields of sustainability-oriented relationship marketing and sustainability crises.

scholarly journals Interlinking Service Delivery Innovation And Service Quality: A Conceptual Framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Mohammad Arshad ◽  
Qin Su
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Improve Service Quality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Service Managers

The purpose of writing this paper is to present the relationship between service delivery innovation and service quality in service organizations and to establish a research conceptual framework about this relationship. There are few studies that illustrate the relationship between service delivery innovation and its impact on service quality. This paper theoretically examines the antecedents and consequences of service delivery innovation and its influence on service quality. Authors suggest that customer service is an important mediator between service delivery innovation and service quality which affects the service quality of a firm. The recommended framework and its relationships with service quality present practical guidance for service managers to observe their service delivery in an effort to improve service quality by delivering superior customer service for their customers in a distinctive manner that leads to enhances firms competitiveness.

scholarly journals influence of service quality and price of new electricity on the level of satisfaction by household customers

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-191
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hidayat Isnaini ◽  
Zakaria Wahab ◽  
Muchsin Saggaf Shihab ◽  
Sulastri Sulastri
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Consumer Satisfaction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Service Unit ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Single Scale ◽  
Starting Point

The new Install process at State Electricity Company (SEC) is the first interaction between prospective customers and SEC. Customers may evaluate and react to the quality of services and the number of new installation costs paid throughout the process. These issues must be addressed very away since they may impact consumer satisfaction with electricity services. This research focuses on customer satisfaction with service quality and pricing perceptions of new pairs at SEC Rivai is Customer Service Unit (CSU). The data utilized is current. Thus it is applicable to present circumstances. However, since the quantity of sample data in this study is still limited, it can only represent customer satisfaction on a single scale, which may be the starting point for future research.

Modeling contextually elicited service quality expectations

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Strombeck ◽  
Shih-Tung Shu
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Formal Concept ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Quality Dimensions ◽  
Context Specific

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the critical role that context plays in measuring service quality. Design/methodology/approach – This study replicated an experiment methodology to show that customers perceive an airline service drama as a sequence of scenes. A series of focus groups were then conducted to identify the context-specific set of service quality expectations that customers hold for each of these scenes. Finally, Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), a mathematical modeling technique, was applied to these findings to graphically illustrate how customer expectations for airline service quality vary by service scene. Findings – Results from this study indicate that static measures of service quality are apparently inadequate in explaining customer expectations during more enduring service encounters. The FCA hierarchical model developed in this study revealed profound differences in customer service expectations across the six airline service scenes. These results suggest that more advanced methods for measuring service quality are necessary for service encounters that are longer in duration. Research limitations/implications – This research brings into question a broad spectrum of research which fails to recognize that customers use different reference points in time to evaluate service quality. Practical implications – Researchers and practitioners need accurate and reliable measures of service quality but the findings suggests that measurement specificity and diagnostic capability should not be sacrificed in the pursuit of more robust instruments. Originality/value – This is the first study to empirically demonstrate that customers perceive the airline service encounter as a sequence of scenes. It is also the first study to mathematically model service quality dimensions using FCA.

scholarly journals Designing Service Oriented Modelling Architecture in Customer Service Management at the Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Jakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Customer Service Management ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
The Catholic Church

The role of information technology today is increasing in the sector of modern people's lives. The development of this information technology needs to be responded to by the Catholic Church by updating the IT system, in accordance to the motto "Ecclesia semper Reformanda" (the church must continue to update itself). In this spirit, the Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Jakarta (KAJ Church) seeks to respond the changing times with the applications that are easy for devotees in the ministry. However, the existing applications operate separatedly (not integrated), therefore it is very difficult for data to provide in real time, duplicate data and create application silos, and causes services for customers to be hampered. As the result, IT groups find it difficult to support the speed of change required by the organization due to the relatively long application development process with the continued dependency between each application silo. Therefore, the right solution is needed for some of the above problems to improve the system and architecture of different platforms and databases (interconnection between applications). To make it easier for organizations to adapt the changes, especially in bringing together the management of applications and facilitating the process of developing systems going forward, the KAJ Church needs to implement a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based system with a wealth of applications. This update was done with the implementation of Service Oriented Modelling Architecture (SOMA) methodology, especially customer service management implementation. The implementation of SOMA is necessary to facilitate organizations to adapt changes, especially to integrate existing applications and to develop systems in the future. SOMA methodology represents a high level view work process that starts from the data collection process, the ongoing business process, the issues found in the field, the proposed solutions, to the process of implementing the selected solution until the implementation stage. The implementation of SOMA is not only limited to cost and energy savings from application development efforts, but ultimately the realization of an organization that is able to quickly adapt the business processes in it in order to be able to respond to the latest market demands. The goal is for KAJ church to provide better Customer Services, be more accurate, effective and efficient and able to help donors to provide appropriate assistance funds.

scholarly journals Customer complaints encountered in the online food retail during the COVID-19 intermittent curfew period

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-238
Author(s):  
Kübra Göksu Köstepen Özbek ◽  
Seda Özcan ◽  
Fatmanur Avar Çalışkan
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Customer Complaints ◽  
Supply Chain Networks ◽  
Service Failures ◽  
Document Review

Almost everything has changed fundamentally with the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. The pandemic has adversely affected the retail industry and the global economy. After detecting COVID-19, customers’ shopping preferences have moved to popular platforms like online shopping websites. Meanwhile, due to inadequate distribution structures and decentralized supply chain networks of businesses, customers have experienced many failures in service encounters. This study employed a document review method to analyse customer complaints covering common logistic service failures in the food sector during the three months (March, April and May 2020) intermittent curfew period. In addition, using content analysis, “şikayetvar.com” complaints were classified according to the service quality gap model. Since disruptions in the food industry are critical with their stimulating effects on supply chains, this industry has been analysed in detail. In terms of practical contribution, the study introduces an insight to enhance the customer service capabilities of private shopping sites. Furthermore, the theoretical background of the study reveals the service quality dimensions prioritized by customers in the pandemic environment and their critical role in service quality gaps.

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