Chapter 12 - Services marketing

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Chapter 12 - Services marketing
Lorisse Bazley
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Question 1

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Research conducted by Xerox discovered that delighted customers were (how many more times) likely to repurchase than a merely satisfied customer?
Answer
  • 5 times
  • 6 times
  • 8 times
  • 10 times

Question 2

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In the gaps model of service quality, which of the following best describes GAP 3?
Answer
  • Not knowing what customers expect
  • Specifying service standards that do not accurately reflect what management believes to be customers’ expectations
  • Service not living up to levels of performance that are promoted and promised by the advertising of the company
  • Service performance that does not match specifications
  • Discrepancies between expected service and actual service delivery

Question 3

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Which of the following statements is NOT true?
Answer
  • Guarantees work when they promise high standards.
  • Guarantees work when they promise consistency.
  • Guarantees work when some form of compensations are offered.
  • Guarantees are most effective when customers already have a level of trust in the organisation.
  • Service guarantees are explicit promises.

Question 4

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For a few months, McDonald’s advertised a maximum waiting time of:
Answer
  • 5 minutes
  • 3 minutes
  • 1 minute

Question 5

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At which level of employee satisfaction are marketers likely to see the greatest strengthening of customer loyalty?
Answer
  • Around the threshold between satisfaction and delight with the service
  • When service improvements move customers from dissatisfied to satisfied
  • When basic expectations are met
  • Loyalty grows at a steady rate as satisfaction rises
  • As customers enter the zone of indifference

Question 6

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Which of the following is NOT a benefit that an organisation may obtain from creating high levels of customer satisfaction?
Answer
  • Reduced failure costs
  • More affluent customers
  • Increased levels of loyalty
  • Lower costs for attracting new customers
  • Positive word of mouth

Question 7

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Why might some customers be satisfied by organisations that offer relatively low levels of service?
Answer
  • Because the customer had low levels of expectations
  • Because of the advertising of the service organisation
  • Because the price is so low
  • Because of the intangibility of the service
  • Because of the complexity of the service

Question 8

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Consumer expectations are ________ beliefs about ________ provisions that act as a standard or reference point for judging ________ performance.
Answer
  • pre-purchase; specific; post-purchase
  • pre-purchase; performance; post-purchase
  • post-purchase; service; post-purchase
  • post-purchase; service; pre-purchase
  • experiential; service; post-purchase

Question 9

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Garvin (1988) has identified different perspectives of ‘quality’, which consist of the transcendent view, product-based approach and ________.
Answer
  • user-based definition
  • experience to profits model
  • interaction approach
  • post-purchase evaluation
  • fulfilment approach

Question 10

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Which one of the following is the main difference between service quality and customer satisfaction?
Answer
  • Perceived service quality is experience dependent and customer satisfaction is not
  • Customer satisfaction is an overall evaluated measure and perceived service quality is not
  • Perceived quality is service-specific whereas customer satisfaction is organisation-specific
  • Perceived service quality is an overall evaluative measure and customer satisfaction is not
  • Customer satisfaction has to be experience dependent whereas perceived service quality does not
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