MKF3301 - Services marketing - 2017

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Business and Economics

Organisational Unit

Department of Marketing

Coordinator(s)

Professor Hean Tat Keh

Unit guides

Offered

Caulfield

  • Summer semester A 2017 (On-campus split block of classes)

Synopsis

An in-depth analysis of the marketing techniques that apply to service organisations and industries including service design and delivery, customer service, service quality measurement and internal marketing.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

  1. define a service and understand the implications of this on marketing research, buyer behaviour, classification of services and internationalising services
  2. design a service using blueprinting and the servuction model
  3. develop and implement promotional, pricing, product, distribution strategies for a service giving consideration to the demand management implications
  4. explain the importance of the measurement of service quality, giving consideration to relationship marketing theory.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 50% + Examination: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Prerequisites