Service Operations Management: Improving Service Delivery, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (December 18, 2020) © 2021

  • Robert Johnston Warwick Business School, Warwick University
  • Michael Shulver Bath School of Management
  • Nigel Slack Warwick Business School, Warwick University
  • Graham Clark Cranfield School of Management
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Analyse and address organisational challenges using real world examples
Service Operations Management, 5th Edition, by Robert Johnston et al. is a market-leading text on service operations management and provides a clear understanding of how service performance can be improved in organisations. This textbook applies underlying theories to the real world challenges faced by service operations managers on a daily basis, by providing a diverse range of examples and illustrations. Each chapter provides a range of tools, frameworks and techniques designed to help your students better analyse existing operations and understand ways to deal with operational challenges.
  • PART I: FRAMING SERVICE OPERATIONS
  • 1. Introduction to service operations
  • 2.The world of service
  • 3. Service strategy
  • 4. The service concept
  • PART II: SERVICE PEOPLE
  • 5. Customer relationships
  • 6. Service quality
  • 7. Designing customer experience
  • 8. People in the service operation
  • 9. Service culture
  • PART III: DELIVERING SERVICE
  • 10. Service supply networks
  • 11. Designing the service process
  • 12. Managing service performance
  • 13. Service resources and capacity
  • PART IV: IMPROVING SERVICE OPERATIONS
  • 14. Service innovation
  • 15. Service improvement
  • 16. Learning from problems
  • 17. Learning from other operations
  • Index

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