Empowering Service Excellence: Beyond the Quick Fix (Cassell services management)

by Conrad Lashley (Author), Conrad Lashley (Author), Ruth McCurry (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $3.95

  Since the service sector now occupies 70% of UK business, it represents an important part of the country's economic success. This book contains examples from Europe, UK and USA where service quality has been improved through the empowerment of employees. It provides a systematic overview of employee empowerment as a strategy for resolving service quality problems. The book shows the key issues involved in improving quality in the service sector, covering topics such as customer stisfaction, standardization of service and scripted intercations, definitions of quality, satisfaction and value, motives for employee ompowerment and implications for management.