For Services Management/Marketing or Marketing courses, particularly for undergraduate and graduate programs in Hospitality Management, Tourism Management, Leisure Management and Retail Management.
This book addresses the hospitality industry from a services management perspective, offering the reader a series of management concepts — operations, marketing and human resources — all of which are capable of being effectively incorporated into all hospitality operations. The book’s focus is on the ever-increasing demand of customers for service quality, as well as the other challenges facing hospitality establishments today — including intense competition, globalization, and technological innovation. This book stresses the point that in all services, including hospitality services, the human element (both employees and customers) is absolutely crucial — in selling services, hospitality enterprises are ‘selling’ personal relationships. Hospitality providers of all types will benefit from adopting the management philosophies and practices in this book — ones that have proven so effective in other service sectors.
Feature
.Unique perspective — Currently the only book that addresses hospitality management specifically from a services management/marketing perspective.
~Offers the reader a series of management concepts — operations, marketing and human resources — all of which are capable of being effectively incorporated into all hospitality operations.
.Study Objectives — In all chapters.
~Outlines for the student and the professor, the strategic focus of the chapter. These also explicitly state the learning outcome of each chapter.
.Vignettes or small cases — Used in each chapter to illustrate the more general managerial material presented in each chapter.
~Assist the professor to illustrate the applicability of the theory in practice, and the students to understand a concept through case example.
.Review questions -- For each chapter. The selected questions at the end of each chapter also identify some of the important sections within the chapter.
~Provide a rough guide for both the professor and the student by highlighting issues for consideration and possible assessment.
.Suggested further reading for the chapter.
~Provides the students and the professor with numerous publications that discuss similar topic areas; hence, the opportunity to gain greater understanding.
.Reference Section — All relevant reference and sources for each chapter are quoted and acknowledged appropriately in the reference section at the end of the book.
~Gives students a great source of information.
.Web support on all figures and diagrams in the book.
~Provides all professors with PowerPoint slides of the diagrams illustrated in the text. This constitutes a valuable teaching tool for professors, and serves as a visual aid to student understanding.
(NOTE: Each chapter begins with an Introduction and concludes with a Summary.)
I. THE SERVICE PARADIGM.
1. The Metamorphosis of Services.
The Service Economy.
Global Tourism and Hospitality.
Interdependency of Services.
Hospitality as a Service Industry.
Service Packages.
Tangible and Intangible Aspects of Service Offers.
2. The Nature of Services.
How Services Differ.
Management Implications.
II. SERVICES OF QUALITY.
3. Quality — the Core Service.
An Historic Perspective on Quality.
Economic Impact of Quality.
The Cost of Quality.
The Quality ‘Gurus.’
The Core Ideas of TQM.
The Special Case of Service Quality.
Understanding Service Quality Theory.
Service-quality Concepts.
4. Understanding Customer Needs.
Customers of a Service Organization.
Internal Customers.
External Customers.
Measurement of Service Quality.
Employee Research.
III. SERVICES THAT SERVE.
5. The Service Vision.
Service Vision or Concept.
Service Strategy.
Service Processes.
Perfecting the Service System.
Service Design and Blueprinting.
Managing the ‘critical encounters.’
Designing and Managing Service Networks.
6. Modern Marketing (1) — External Service Implications.
Towards a New Marketing Paradigm.
Integrating Operations, Marketing, and Human Resources.
An Extended Marketing Mix for Services.
New Marketing Concepts for Services.
7. Modern Marketing (2) — Internal Management Implications.
The Shift in Focus.
Internal Marketing.
Relationship Marketing.
In-House Marketing.
Managing and Marketing Service Demand.
IV. SERVICE GROWTH TO EXCELLENCE.
8. Empowerment, Guarantees, and Recovery.
Service Superiority.
Empowerment.
Service Guarantees.
Service Recovery.
Coordinating Empowerment, Guarantee, and Recovery
9. Global Strategies for Hospitality Services.
The Trend is Global.
From Inns to Internationalisation.
Choosing an International Location.
In Search of Global Potential.
Strategies for Globalising Hospitality Firms.
Globalisation Through Partnerships and Alliances.
10. Technology and its Applications.
The Advent of Technology.
The Shift of Focus.
The Internet.
Internal and External Services.
Integration of Marketing, Operations, and Human Resources.
Applications of Technology in the Hospitality Industry.
Marketing and Sales in the Age of Technology.
11. Implications of the New Paradigm in Hospitality.
Evolving Imperatives.
Services Management — The New Paradigm in Hospitality.
References.
Index.
说实话,我买这本书的时候,完全是冲着它那个听起来挺有格调的书名去的,觉得能在工作之余,读点能提升“逼格”的书,顺便了解点行业前沿的知识。我当时对“服务”这个概念的理解,还停留在客服部门那种点对点解决问题的层面。但这本书的切入点非常独特。它不是从技术或者流程的角度去讲“服务”,而是从一种更宏观、更哲学的高度去探讨“服务”在整个组织运作中的角色。它里面有很多关于“价值创造”和“利益相关者”的讨论,让我第一次真正理解了,所谓的“服务”,其实是连接组织内部各个环节、以及组织与外部世界的重要纽带。我之前一直觉得,我们部门的工作好像是孤立的,跟其他部门之间总感觉隔着一层。读了这本书之后,我才意识到,其实我们也在为其他部门提供“服务”,只不过我们自己没有意识到,也没有去主动优化这个过程。书中很多案例分析,虽然我并不完全熟悉其背景,但那种解决问题的思路和方法,却让我受益匪浅。它教会我如何去观察、去分析、去理解不同“服务对象”的需求,然后去设计和优化相应的“服务流程”。这种“以服务为中心”的思维模式,感觉可以应用到生活的方方面面,不仅仅是工作。
评分我之所以会翻开这本书,纯粹是因为我在公司里经常听到一些高层在讨论“服务升级”、“服务体系”之类的术语,感觉不了解一下会跟不上趟。我本来以为这本书会是一本枯燥的技术手册,里面充斥着各种专业术语和复杂的图表,结果完全出乎我的意料。它更像是一本以故事和案例为主的指南,通过生动鲜活的例子,来阐述复杂的概念。我尤其喜欢书中关于“如何识别和满足隐性需求”的部分,这一点对我启发很大。很多时候,我们以为自己知道别人想要什么,但实际上,对方的需求可能比我们想象的要更深层,或者根本就不是我们以为的那样。这本书提供了一些实用的工具和方法,帮助我们去挖掘这些隐藏的需求,并且思考如何通过改进我们的“服务”来满足它们。读完这本书,我感觉自己看待问题的角度变了。以前我总是在想“我能做什么”,现在我会更多地考虑“别人需要我做什么”,以及“我能做得更好”。这种转变,让我对自己的工作有了更强的责任感和使命感,也让我更愿意去思考如何通过自己的工作,为他人创造更大的价值。
评分我买这本书,纯粹是出于好奇心。我之前听朋友提起过,说现在很多公司都特别重视“服务”,但是具体是什么意思,我一直没太搞明白。这本书就像一个向导,把我带入了这个“服务”的世界。它没有直接给我灌输各种复杂的理论,而是通过一些我能理解的例子,让我慢慢体会到“服务”的含义。我印象最深刻的是书中提到的一些关于“期望管理”的内容。我以前觉得,只要我努力做了,对方就应该满意。但这本书告诉我,有时候,即使你做得再好,如果对方的期望没有得到满足,他们依然会感到失望。所以,如何去管理和引导对方的期望,也是“服务”的一部分。这一点对我来说,是颠覆性的认知。我还学到了很多关于“服务质量”的衡量标准,虽然书中没有给出具体的公式,但那种“细节决定成败”的理念,让我觉得很有道理。我开始更关注工作中那些容易被忽略的小细节,并且思考如何通过改进这些细节,来提升整体的“服务”体验。这本书真的让我对“工作”有了新的认识,也让我对自己能为他人提供“服务”这件事,有了更多的期待。
评分这本书真是让我大开眼界!虽然我当初买它的时候,其实只是想找点关于如何优化团队协作的灵感,顺便看看有没有什么能快速提升工作效率的小技巧。没想到,它竟然把我引入了一个全新的领域。我一直以为“管理”就是简单地分配任务、检查进度,但这本书里提到的那些关于“服务”的理念,简直是颠覆性的。它让我开始思考,我们所做的很多事情,从根本上说,其实都是在为“用户”或“内部同事”提供某种“服务”。这种视角的变化,让我重新审视了自己过去的一些工作习惯,也促使我开始关注那些隐藏在日常流程背后的、真正能为他人带来价值的环节。这本书并没有直接教我如何做一个“更好的管理者”,而是通过深入浅出的方式,引导我理解“服务”的本质,以及如何通过优化服务来达成更好的管理效果。这种“润物细无声”的引导方式,比那些直接喊口号的书籍要深刻得多。我开始尝试在团队会议中,更多地强调“我们能为对方提供什么帮助”,而不是仅仅纠结于“谁该做什么”。这种微小的转变,竟然带来了意想不到的积极反馈。这本书的价值,远远超出了我最初的设想,它为我提供了一个全新的思考框架,让我能够在工作中找到更多超越任务本身的意义。
评分这本《Services Management》的封面设计我很喜欢,简洁又大气,所以就顺手买了回来,想着随便翻翻。我以为它会是那种泛泛而谈的管理理论书籍,讲一些大道理,没什么实际可操作性。但实际上,它提供了一种全新的视角来看待企业运作。我一直觉得,公司就是一个个部门为了完成各自KPI而机械运转的机器,人与人之间的关系,更多的也是一种合作关系,而不是服务关系。但这本书让我认识到,所谓的“管理”,其实最终都指向“服务”。无论是对内部员工的服务,还是对外部客户的服务,都是核心。它让我开始反思,我们平常的工作流程,是不是过于僵化,是不是忽略了人的感受和需求。书里讲到的一些“服务设计”的原则,虽然我不太清楚具体是怎么实现的,但那种“以人为本”的思考方式,让我印象深刻。我开始尝试在团队内部,鼓励大家多互相帮助,多主动去询问对方是否有需要支持的地方。这种小小的改变,竟然让团队的氛围变得更融洽了。这本书就像是给我打开了一扇窗,让我看到了一个更广阔、更人性化的工作世界。
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