CHAPTER 10 Flashcards
shaping the service experience and enhancing customer satisfaction, especially in high-contact people-processing services.
PHYSICAL SERVICE ENVIRONMENT
is an art that involves a lot of time and effort and it can be expensive to implement.
DESIGNING THE SERVICE ENVIRONMENT
SERVICE ENVIRONMENTS: also called
SERVICESCAPES
Relate to the style and appearance of the physical surroundings and other experiential elements encountered by customers at service delivery sites.
SERVICE ENVIRONMENTS
PURPOSE OF SERVICE ENVIRONMENTS
- SHAPE CUSTOMERS’ EXPERIENCES AND BEHAVIORS
- SIGNAL QUALITY, AND POSITION, DIFFERENTIATE AND STRENGTHEN THE BRAND
- CORE COMPONENT OF THE VALUE PROPOSITION
- FACILITATE THE SERVICE ENCOUNTER AND ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY
studies how people respond to particular environments.
ENVIRONMENTAL PYSCHOLOGY
key driver of customer responses to service environments.
FEELINGS
2 IMPORTANT MODELS
- MEHRABIAN-RUSSELL STIMULUS-RESPONSE
- RUSSELL’S MODEL OF AFFECT
:Holds that effect can be modeled with the two interacting dimensions of pleasure and arousal.
RUSSELL’S MODEL OF AFFECT
:Holds that our feelings are central to how we respond to different environmental elements.
MEHRABIAN-RUSSELL STIMULUS-RESPONSE
direct subjective response to the environment,
PLEASURE
Refers to how stimulated the individual feels,
AROUSAL
DIMENSIONS OF THE SERVICE ENVIRONMENT
- AMBIENT CONDITIONS
- SPATIAL LAYOUT AND FUNCTIONALITY
- SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND ARTIFACTS
refer to those characteristics of the environment that pertain to our five senses.
AMBIENT CONDITIONS
THE EFFECT OF AMBIENT CONDITIONS
MUSIC
SCENT
COLOR
LIGHTING