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 you better analyse existing operations and understand ways to deal with operational challenges.

  • Preface
  • New features for this edition
  • Case examples and exercises
  • About the authors

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

  1. Customer relationships
  2. Service quality
  3. Designing customer experience
  4. People in the service operation
  5. Service culture

PART III: DELIVERING SERVICE

  1. Service supply networks
  2. Designing the service process
  3. Managing service performance
  4. Service resources and capacity

PART IV: IMPROVING SERVICE OPERATIONS

  1. Service innovation
  2. Service improvement
  3. Learning from problems
  4. Learning from other operations
  • Index
  • Publisher acknowledgements

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