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Culture of Services: Paradox of Customer Relations 

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Overview

Understand the subtle and sometimes counter-intuitive dynamics of customer relations. Learn a fresh, cultural perspective on service-focused industries

Duration

12 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Beginner

Credential

Certificate

Culture of Services: Paradox of Customer Relations
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edX 
Highlights

  • Offered By University of California, Davis
  • Learn from expert faculty of Kyoto University
  • A great course for learning Front Office
  • Earn a certificate upon successful completion
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Culture of Services: Paradox of Customer Relations
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edX 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Radical perspective on the culture of customer service
  • Basics of customer service research
  • How to critique and design services
  • How to analyze customer interactions
More about this course
  • Services are everywhere in our society. We cannot live without them. More than 70% of advanced economies fall under the category of the service sector. Other sectors, such as agriculture and manufacturing, also seek to incorporate service business.
  • What is service? While the existing discourse on services emphasizes customer satisfaction, hospitality, and clear design, this course offers a radically new perspective on services.

Culture of Services: Paradox of Customer Relations
 at 
edX 
Curriculum

Week1: Introduction

Discuss the general characteristics of service

Week 2: Service experience: Comparative analysis

we can start to see the paradoxical nature of service.

Week 3: Existing theories of service

Review some major theories of service such as customer satisfaction and service quality.

Week 4: Ethnomethodology: Analysis of customer interactions

Learn to analyze recorded interactions in detail

Week 5: Hospitality: A critical perspective

Gain a critical understanding of the concept of hospitality

Week 6: Aesthetic of service: Taste and manners

Learn the social struggle over cultural aesthetic, taste, and manners.

Week 7: Dialectic of customer relations

Understand the contradictory relationship of service from intersubjective perspective

Week 8: Service design from cultural perspective

Discuss service design that goes beyond human-centered design

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