Module Title:Services Marketing
Language of Instruction:English
Credits: 10
NFQ Level:8
Module Delivered In No Programmes
Teaching & Learning Strategies: A variety of teaching and learning strategies will be used such as lectures, presentations, case studies, tutorials, and guest lectures. Class and group interaction will also serve to help develop students’ comprehension and communication skills.
Module Aim: The aim of this module is to examine the status of marketing in services and to put in place the required adaptations for marketing strategy formulation.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner should be able to:
LO1 Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the challenges posed by the unique characteristics of services and the resulting marketing implications of each.
LO2 Analyse typical marketing and management problems encountered in the service sector and be able to structure appropriate responses.
LO3 Employ appropriate strategies to meet the challenges encountered in the services sector based on a comprehensive knowledge of the theory and practice of services marketing.
LO4 Evaluate applications of theoretical and practical knowledge of services marketing to a variety of case studies.
Pre-requisite learning
Module Recommendations

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Incompatible Modules
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Requirements
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Module Content & Assessment

Indicative Content
Understanding Services Marketing?
• Introduction to Services • The service industry in Ireland • Distinguishing features of services, classifying services, extended marketing mix for services. • The service encounter • Conceptual frameworks for analysing the service encounter • Service failure and recovery.
Services and the Internet
• Impacts of the Internet on services marketing • Computer-mediated service • Encounters • Industrialising the service encounter.
Relationships, Partnerships and Networks
• Relationship marketing and consumer services • Customer loyalty • Managing customer information • Challenges for customer relationship.
Innovation and New Service Development
• The service life-cycle concept • Refining the service portfolio • New Service Development • Demand forecasting • Competitor analysis • Service deletion.
Service Quality
• Defining service quality • The service-profit chain • Frameworks for measuring service quality • Setting quality standards • Creating a service quality culture.
Financial Services Marketing
• Defining financial services • The distinctive characteristics of Financial Services • The marketing challenge of financial services.
Engaging Employees in Service Delivery
• Internal marketing • Controlling empowering staff • Creating involvement by Employees • Leadership • Recruitment, training & employees
Pricing of Services
• Organisational influences on pricing decisions • Factors influencing pricing decisions • Service portfolio pricing
Managing Communications
• Advertising and the media • Sales promotion • Personal selling • Direct Marketing • Public relations sponsorship • Digital marketing in the Service Industry
International Services Marketing
• The importance of international trade in services • The foreign marketing environment • Adapting the marketing programme for foreign marketing • Global e-commerce
Assessment Breakdown%
Continuous Assessment20.00%
Practical10.00%
End of Module Formal Examination70.00%
Continuous Assessment
Assessment Type Assessment Description Outcome addressed % of total Assessment Date
Other Literature Review: An analytical review of a chosen piece of literature in the area of services marketing 1,2,3 20.00 n/a
No Project
Practical
Assessment Type Assessment Description Outcome addressed % of total Assessment Date
Practical/Skills Evaluation Case Study Presentation: A review and evaluation of relevant case studies in the services sector 4 10.00 n/a
End of Module Formal Examination
Assessment Type Assessment Description Outcome addressed % of total Assessment Date
Formal Exam Terminal Examination 1,2,3 70.00 End-of-Semester

SETU Carlow Campus reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload
Lecture 30 Weeks per Stage 3.00
Independent Learning Time 30 Weeks per Stage 4.00
Total Hours 210.00
Workload: Part Time
Workload Type Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload
Lecture Every Week 1.50
Independent Learning Time Every Week 3.00
Total Hours 4.50