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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Services Marketing

Type of study Follow-up MasterMaster
Language of instruction English
Code 116-0503/01
Abbreviation SM
Course title Services Marketing
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Marketing and Business
Course coordinator Ing. Pavlína Kozáková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Services industries
The nature of services
Classification of services

2. Consumer behavior in services
Characteristics of services
Differences between goods and services
Search, experince and credence properties
Consumer choise, concumer experience

3. Services marketing
The Role of marketing
The evolution of services marketing
The essence of services marketing

4. The services marketing mix
Developing a marketing mix strategy
The marekting mix elements
Internal, external and interactive marketing

5. The service product
Four levels of a services products
The product life-cycle
Packaging the services product

6. Pricing the services
Characteristics of services and their influence upon services prices
Classification of services for pricing purposes
Price Tactics

7. People in services
Services personnel, differing roles of people
Managing the perceived service quality
Internal marekting
Customers

8. Processes and physical evidence
Processes as structural elements
Role of sevices evidence
Peripheral evidence, essential evidence
Atmosphere

9. Place: service location and channels
Methods of distributing services
Location

10. Promotion of services
Promotional objectives
Differences in promotion services
The promotionals mix elements

Literature

LOVELOCK, Ch. H. Services Marketing . Text, Cases and Reading. Prentice-Hall International, Inc., 1991. 526s. ISBN 0-13-80701-2
PAYNE, A. The Essence of Servicec Marketing. Pretice Hall UK) Ltd, 1993. 253s. ISBN 0-13-
284852-X

PALMER, A. Principles of Services Marketing. London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1994. 345s. ISBN 0-07-707746-6
ZEITHAML, V. A.; BITNER, M. J:; GREMLER, D: D. Services Marketing. Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006. 708s. ISBN 007-124496-4

Advised literature

WOODRUFFE, H. Services Marketing. Glasgow: Bell and Bain Ltd., 1995. 307s. ISBN 0-7121-1039-9