Quality management in businesses involves using quality resources, quality control, and quality assurance to produce high-quality products. It also requires motivating staff through quality circles and total quality management approaches. This helps ensure customer satisfaction by meeting expectations for reliable products and keeping customers from taking their business elsewhere.
2. DEFINITION:
• Customer Service
– how one delivers a product or service
Examples:
> Products - Hotels providing accommodation / Restaurants selling food /
> Services – Bartender Mixing and Serving Drinks / Food Attendant taking and serving orders and
taking care of the customer’s needs
• Quality Customer Service
– refers to great customer service which is quick, easy, personalized, and
empathetic.
- includes accessibility, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and satisfaction
3. * hotel customer service - refers to the care provided
by hotels to guests before, during, and after their stay.
Customer service takes care of business and provides a good
service. Hospitality is when you give selflessly to make an
experience happen for your guests. (must apply altogether)
OTHER DEFINITIONS specifically related to Hospitality and Tourism:
Hospitality can mean many things, but for me, it means being truly caring,
trusting and investing in customers. It's hospitality that makes businesses strong
and helps eliminate anxiety created by the paradox of choice—the
overwhelming amount of options that customers are faced with on a daily basis.
4. WHY DO YOU THINK THERE IS BAD
AND GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE?
5. 3 Keys in Delivering Great Customer Service
1. The Influence Of Smile
- this helps with the inflection of voice, allows you to build connection with your
guest, and makes them feel at ease
- Example < say while smiling and not > :
"Welcome to Asiatech Restaurant. Do you have any reservation?“
6. 3 Keys in Delivering Great Customer Service
2. Getting and Showing Right Energy
- This is achievable if you hang around with the right people because it will
reflect to your work performance
- Have a good meal
- Listen to good music and use humor
7. 3. Staying Positive
- Know that negative situations open doors of opportunities as well
- Learn from mistakes
- Realize that you cannot please everybody so in the future , it will be
easier for you to not take customer’s complaint personally and be
able to deal with it gracefully
3 Keys in Delivering Great Customer Service
8. Activity #1
•Based on what we have discussed, as well as
what the videos have presented, write at least
1 scenario that shows BAD Customer Service,
and another 1 for GREAT Customer Experience.
(send your answers to me directly)
9. Activity #1
•For BAD Customer Service :
If you’re the attendant, what do you think are the best
actions to take to avoid bad customer service and turn
the situation favorable or positive?
( RECITATION )
11. THE IMPORTANCE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE
“MARKET RESEARCH”
- the process of determining the viability of a new service or
product through research conducted directly with potential
customers.
- keeps customers satisfied because through this, you’ll be able to
identify customer’s needs and/or preferences.
12. WHAT AFFECTS WHETHER CUSTOMERS’
EXPECTATIONS ARE MET? (in relation to market research)
• Reliability/quality of the product/service;
• Consistency over a period of time – how does it match up to the last good/service
purchased?
• The speed and flexibility of delivery – can the organization accommodate the
customer’s needs, for example, can they deliver within 24 hours?
• Courtesy and attitude of staff – from those on the shop floor to the delivery
drivers;
• The information given about the product – was it accurate? Did it do all the
business claimed it would do?
• How did the organization react if help was needed? Were staff happy to assist the
customer?
13. HOW CAN CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
BE MEASURED?
BY ---> MARKET RESEARCH
Organizations often survey customers or ask
for feedback to ensure that high standards
of customer service are being met or to find
out if there is any way things can be made
better.
14. Can you think of any methods a
business could use to get this
information?
15. Methods a business could use to get information:
• a written survey or questionnaire is posted out to customers;
• telephoning customers to ask pre-set questions;
• e-mailing customer questionnaires;
• holding a meeting of invited customers to answer questions/give opinions;
• face to face interviews given at point of sale or on entry and exit from the
business (admission/exit interview)
• mystery shoppers – who act as customers to experience the service given
by the organization.
• suggestion boxes/schemes for customers to leave anonymous
suggestions/opinions.
17. FIELD RESEARCH
The methods of market research we have just
discussed are all methods of FIELD RESEARCH.
This involves collecting information from
customers or potential customers first-hand. This
is when PRIMARY INFORMATION is taken and has the
benefit of being up-to-date and reliable. However, it has
the disadvantage of being time-consuming and
expensive to collect.
18. DESK RESEARCH
Another method of market research which can be
used is DESK RESEARCH. In this method
SECONDARY INFORMATION is collected. This is
information which has already been collected for
another purpose but which can be used for a
different purpose eg. Census. This information is
much quicker and cheaper to gather but the data
may be out-of-date or inaccurate.
19. USES OF MARKET RESEARCH DATA
Results of market research can be useful for finding out:
if there is a market for the product/service
the price that customers are willing to pay
the amount of competition there is
customers shopping habits
new ideas for the product/service from what customers say
they want
20. Instruction:
• Prepare a clean sheet of paper or any paper as long as when you
write something, it’s going to be readable.
• Everyone must open their cameras.
• Teacher will give the questions.
• Answer at the specific given time.
• Late answers cannot be accepted
• Do not put down answers unless the teacher is done already
checking it
22. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
- is about trying to satisfy customers by being enterprising and coming
up with NEW products for them.
- This can involve the following activities:
Coming up with new ideas from enterprise or market research
Deciding what is the best idea to try
Designing the features of the new product
CREATING A PROTOTYPE (a working first version of the product)
23. Testing the prototype on some customers
Identifying improvements that could be made to the prototype
Changing the prototype in light of testing results
Deciding where to sell the product
Deciding what price to sell the product for
Deciding how to promote the product
Making and launching the final product
24. 4Ps
If a business wishes to meet the needs of its
customers and sell its products successfully
it must develop a strategy based on the 4
P’s – Product, Price, Promotion and
Place. How these 4 elements are combined
is referred to as the MARKETING MIX
and
will determine how well a product will sell.
25. PRODUCT
The good or service that the customer
purchases.
The product includes:
• quality
• packaging
• guarantee and after-sales service
27. PROMOTION
The way in which the customer is made
aware of a product or service and
persuaded to buy it. Promotion includes
Advertising and sales promotions.
28. PROMOTION CONT’D
* ADVERTISING – this can be done via newspapers,
magazines, leaflets, billboards, television and radio
depending on the budget available.
* SPECIAL PROMOTIONS – these can be discounts, eg
25% off or BOGOF to encourage new sales, free Samples for
new customers, money off vouchers to encourage another
purchase, for example.
30. QUALITY
LEARNING INTENTION:
I understand the role that
quality goods and services
can play in keeping
customers satisfied.
SUCCESS CRITERIA:
• I can explain what is meant by the
term ‘quality’ and why businesses
should focus on this.
• I can explain how using quality
resources, quality control, quality
assurance and quality
management can contribute to
product quality.
31. Imagine you are buying a new mobile
phone. What would be quality for this
product in your opinion?
Quality means different things to different
people, but businesses need to make sure
they are keeping all their customers
satisfied.
What is Quality?
32. The Importance of Good Quality Products
and Services
Businesses need to make sure that they produce quality
products that do what customers expect and are
reliable.
Quality is a very important issue for a business because if
finished products do not satisfy customers then the
business could fail. This is because customers will stop
buying from the business and it could face court action
and fines if Government quality laws have been broken.
33. How can Quality be Achieved?
1. USING HIGH QUALITY RESOURCES
The stock and factors of production used
should be of a high enough standard to
produce quality finished products. This can
be achieved through using QUALITY
SUPPLIERS, providing TRAINING for staff
and repairing and MAINTAINING
equipment regularly.
34. How can Quality be Achieved?
2. USING A SYSTEM OF QUALITY CONTROL
Quality control is about checking at the END OF
PRODUCTION that products are of a high enough
quality. Any poor quality products that are found
are scrapped or sent back to be fixed. Quality
control helps improve quality because poor quality
products can be found and so are prevented from
leaving the business and going to customers.
35. How can Quality be Achieved?
3. USING A SYSTEM OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
Quality assurance is about setting quality standards,
making them clear to staff before they start work and then
checking that products meet these standards at EACH
STAGE OF PRODUCTION.
Any mistakes found at each stage of production will be
fixed before the product moves on. Quality assurance helps
improve quality because staff are actively working to high
quality standards and so mistakes are less likely to happen.
36. MOTIVATING STAFF
There are many methods that management can use to
motivate staff to perform their jobs well and keep standards
and quality of work high.
1. QUALITY CIRCLES - are where members of the
organisation meet regularly to discuss any quality issues
and ways of improving quality. They then put their ideas
into practice and are hopefully able to see their ideas
succeed giving them satisfaction and motivation in their
jobs.
37. 2. TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM)
- Is where all employees in the organisation are trained to
achieve the highest standards and always look for ways of
improving the production of the product. All employees take
pride in the work that they do for their colleagues and for the
final customer.
MOTIVATING STAFF
Notes de l'éditeur
*Customer Service = simply defines as how a particular individual or institution provides a product or service. The actual distribution of any of the latter. *Good customer service means consistently meeting customers' expectations.
*WHILE QUALITY CUSTOMER SERVICE – is about how fast the service was given, how easy it was to expect and receive the service < yung di nakakainip and mag e enjoy ang customer while waiting > , it’s not scripted < yung hindi halata na nagmi memorize kalang ng laman ng menu but don’t know exactly how it was prepared in the kitchen because you didn’t go extra mile > , and it needs to be genuine / sincere. must be friendly and convenient or easy to avail / effective and competent specifically if you’re offering a product, / doesn’t cost a lot of money but product or service guarantees enjoyment to the customer / and itmust exceed expectations to satisfy or please the customer
BASICALLY, Customer Service in the Hospitality Industry must have no room for bad customer service because it focuses on what’s great for the customer.