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1 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 1 CHAPTER 2 Consumer Behavior in a S ervices Context

2 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 2 Consumer Decision Making ● Consumer Decision Making: The Three-Stage Model  Pre-purchase Stage  Service Encounter Stage  Post-purchase Stage

3 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 3 Pre-purchase Stage Service Encounter Stage Post-purchase Stage Pre-purchase Stage - Overview ●Customers seek solutions to aroused needs ●Evaluating a service may be difficult ●Uncertainty about outcomes Increases perceived risk ●What risk reduction strategies can service suppliers develop? ●Understanding customers’ service expectations ●Components of customer expectations ●Making a service purchase decision

4 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 4 Service Attributes ●Search Attributes help customers evaluate a product before purchase  Style, color, texture, taste, sound ●Experience Attributes cannot be evaluated before purchase—must “experience” product to know it  Vacations, sporting events, medical procedures ●Credence Attributes are product characteristics that customers find impossible to evaluate confidently even after purchase and consumption  Quality of repair and maintenance work, medical procedures

5 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 5 Pre-purchase Stage – Evaluation of Alternatives Perceived Risks ●Functional – unsatisfactory performance outcomes ●Financial – monetary loss, unexpected extra costs ●Temporal – wasted time, delays leading to problems ●Physical – personal injury, damage to possessions ●Psychological – fears and negative emotions ●Social – how others may think and react ●Sensory – unwanted impact on any of five senses

6 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 6 Perceived Risks - How Do Consumers Handle Them? ●Seek information from respected personal sources ●Consult independent reviews and ratings ●Rely on firm’s good reputation ●Look for guarantees and warranties ●Visit service facilities ●Trying aspects of service before purchasing (“pre- experiencing or sampling) ●Ask knowledgeable employees about competing services

7 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 7 How Firms Manage Consumers’ Perceptions of Risk ●Free trial (for services with high experience attributes) ●Advertise (helps to visualize) ●Display credentials ●Use evidence management (e.g., furnishing, equipment etc.) ●Offer guarantees ●Encourage visit to service facilities ●Give customers online access to information about order status

8 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 8 Service Expectations ●Customers evaluate service quality by comparing what they expect against what they perceive  Situational and personal factors also considered ●Expectations of good service vary from  one business to another,  one provider vs. another within the same business  one times of the day/week to another ●Expectations change over time

9 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 9 Consumer Expectations of Service Source:Adapted from Valarie A. Zeithaml, Leonard A. Berry, and A. Parasuraman, “ The Nature and Determinants of Customer Expectations of Service, ” Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 21, no. 1 (1993): 1-12

10 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 10 Consumer Expectations of Service ●Desired Service Level:  Wished-for level of service quality that customer believes can and should be delivered ●Adequate Service Level:  Minimum acceptable level of service ●Predicted Service Level:  Service level that customer believes firm will actually deliver ●Zone of Tolerance:  Range within which customers are willing to accept variations in service delivery

11 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 11 Service Encounter Stage - Overview Pre-purchase Stage Service Encounter Stage Post-purchase Stage ●Service encounters range from high- to low-contact ●Understanding the service production system ●Theater as a metaphor for service delivery: An integrative perspective  Service facilities  Personnel  Role and script theories

12 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 12 Distinctions between High-contact and Low-contact Services ●High-contact Services  Customers visit service facility and remain throughout service delivery  Active contact between customers and service personnel  Includes most people-processing services ●Low-contact Services  Little or no physical contact with service personnel  Contact usually at arm’s length through electronic or physical distribution channels  New technologies (e.g. Web) help reduce contact levels ●Medium-contact Services Lie in between These Two

13 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 13 High-contact vs. Low-contact Services

14 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 14 Service Production and Delivery ●Service Operations (Front Stage vs. Backstage)  Technical core where inputs are processed and service elements created  Includes facilities, equipment, personnel and possibly customers ●Service Delivery (front stage)  Where “final assembly” of service elements takes place and service is delivered to customers  Includes customer interactions with operations and other customers ●Other contact points  Includes customer contacts with other customers

15 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 15 Theater as a Metaphor for Service Delivery “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances and each man in his time plays many parts” William Shakespeare As You Like It

16 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 16 Theatrical Metaphor: An Integrative Perspective ●Service is a series of events that customers experience as a performance ●Service facilities  Stage on which drama unfolds  This may change from one act to another ●Personnel  Front stage personnel are like members of a cast  Backstage personnel are like crew ●Roles  Like actors, employees have roles to play and must behave in specific ways.  Customers are actors too. ●Scripts  Specifies the sequences of behavior for customers and employees

17 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 17 Post-purchase Stage (Post-encounter) Pre-purchase Stage Service Encounter Stage Post-purchase Stage  Evaluation of service performance  Future intentions

18 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 18 Customer Satisfaction Is Central to the Marketing Concept ●Satisfaction defined as attitude-like judgment following a service purchase or series of service interactions ●Customers have expectations prior to consumption, observe service performance, compare it to expectations ●Satisfaction judgments are based on this comparison  Positive disconfirmation if service is better than expected  Confirmation if service is same as expected  Negative disconfirmation if service is worse than expected

19 Slide © by Lovelock, Wirtz and Chew 2009 Essentials of Services MarketingChapter 1 - Page 19 Customer Delight: Going Beyond Satisfaction ●Research shows that delight is a function of 3 components  Unexpectedly high levels of performance  Arousal (e.g., surprise, excitement)  Positive affect (e.g., pleasure, joy, or happiness) ●Once customers are delighted, their expectations are raised ●If service levels return to previous levels, this may lead to dissatisfaction and it will be more difficult to “delight” customers in future ●Restaurant service example

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