Exam 12: Employees Roles in Service Delivery

What is the first step in conducting an internal customer service audit?

Progressive Insurance looked at insurance from the customer's viewpoint and saw how difficult it was to get an auto claim processed and paid by insurance companies. Then the company crafted its service strategy around solving that problem. The company has fleets of claim adjustors on the road every day, ready to rush to the scene of an accident in their territory and provide fast claims processing-sometimes on the spot. The ability of the insurance company to have an adjustor at accident sites so quickly is an example of which of the following service quality dimensions?

In the services marketing triangle, _____ marketing refers to the service promise being delivered.

A person/role conflict is most likely to arise in jobs where the service provider relies on commissions rather than a salary for his or her income.

The nature of many service jobs suggests that customer satisfaction will suffer slightly when employees work as a team.

Sales associates at Nordstrom are given a "personal" book to keep track of customers' names, telephone numbers, height and weight, likes and dislikes (e.g., color, style and texture preferences) and charge account numbers to help them become a personal shopper for the customer. In addition, sales associates have an open account to send thank-you notes or flowers to customers. By having a personal book and sending thank-you notes or flowers to customers, Nordstrom's sales associates are showing they care by emphasizing the _____ dimension to influence customer perceptions of Nordstrom's service quality.

Service employees who depend on tips or commissions for income are likely to face greater levels of _____ conflict than employees who receive a straight salary.

Which of the following organizations is NOT suited for using employee empowerment strategies?

_____ customers are those individuals and businesses who buy goods and services from an organization.

A service provider that has an inappropriate employee evaluation and compensation system will experience provider:

Progressive Insurance looked at insurance from the customers' viewpoint and saw how difficult it was to get an auto claim processed and paid by insurance companies. Then the company crafted its service strategy around solving that problem. The company has fleets of claim adjustors on the road every day, ready to rush to the scene of an accident in their territory and provide fast claims processing-sometimes on the spot. What advice would you give Progressive Insurance if it wanted to expand its market to include China, where there is a rapidly growing middle class?

A service firm in a particular industry or in a particular location can use which of the following human resource strategies to attract the best people?

Discuss the four sources of conflict for boundary-spanning service workers.

To be effective and efficient in their jobs, service workers require internal support systems that are aligned with their needs to be customer-focused.

Because Bella Harasian, certified medical doctor, does not like to deal with people, she can be described as having service competencies but not service inclinations.

According to the service profit chain:

For which of the following service providers is an employee empowerment strategy most suited?

Empowerment is simply giving employees the authority to make decisions on the customer's behalf.

A telephone order taker for a catalog retailer is expected to treat each customer with concern and courtesy and be willing to spend as much time as needed to get the order taken, while not leaving other customers waiting on hold for too long. The telephone order taker is likely to experience _____ tradeoff.

Cadet Uniform Services, a Canadian company that rents uniforms to major corporations, requires its new delivery drivers to go through a year-long training regimen before they receive their own delivery routes. First, new drivers go through three months of training to learn the whole scope of the business before setting foot in a delivery truck. Then they ride with experienced delivery drivers for nine months to watch how they interact with customers. According to the services marketing triangle, Cadet's training program is a form of _____ marketing.