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What does it mean when we say services are intangible?

What is service refers to what consumers buy that is not visible?

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What is the knowledge gap in service delivery?

What is the difference between customer expectations and management's perception of those expectations?

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What are the five dimensions of service quality?

What is Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, Empathy, and Tangibles?

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Why is service recovery critical for businesses?

What is can turn a dissatisfied customer into a more loyal advocate than if no error had occurred?

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What challenge does inseparability pose for service marketers?

What is the requirement that the customer and provider must both be present for the service to occur?

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What is the standards gap?

What is the difference between management's understanding of customer expectations and the development of customer-driven service designs and standards? 

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What does the zone of tolerance refer to?

What is the range between a customer's desired level of service and the minimum adequate level they are willing to accept?

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What is distributive fairness?

What is often contrasted with procedural fairness and interactional fairness?

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Why is heterogeneity a concern in service quality?

What is the difficulty in ensuring a consistent and standardized customer experience?
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What is the delivery gap?

What is the difference between a company's service quality specifications and the actual service delivered to the customer?

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What is a voice-of-customer (VOC) program?

What is the process of capturing, analyzing, and acting on customer feedback to improve products and services?

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What is procedural fairness?

What is the idea that the process used to reach a decision is just as important as the decision itself?

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What does it mean that services are perishable?

What is the inability of services to be stored or saved for future use?

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What is the communications gap?

What is the difference between a company's external promises and the actual service it provides? 

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Which service quality dimension do customers value the most?

What is Reliability?

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What’s one way to resolve service failures quickly?

What is empowering frontline employees to solve problems on the spot?

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Why are amusement parks and restaurants examples of hybrids on the service-product continuum?

What is they provide an approximately equal mix of tangible goods and intangible services?  

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Name one way to reduce the delivery gap.

What is improving demand forecasting accuracy?

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How can firms evaluate service quality?

What is services are intangible, but firms typically use several established frameworks and methods to measure it?

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How can firms involve customers in service recovery?

What is process involves engaging the aggrieved party to help determine the appropriate compensation or solution following a service failure?