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Complaint Management: The Heart of CRM » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Complaint Management: The Heart of CRM by Bernd Stauss

Authors: Bernd Stauss, Wolfgang Seidel, Wolfgang Seidel
ISBN-13: 9780324202649, ISBN-10: 0324202644
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Bernd Stauss

Bernd Stauss holds the first German chair for services management at the Ingolstadt School of Management of the Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany. The focus of his interests are in management issues that emerge in the context of the production and marketing of services for internal and external customers.

Wolfgang Seidel received his master's degree in business administration from the University of Bayreuth (Germany) and was then research assistant with Prof. Dr. Bernd Stauss. He is founder of "Servmark", a consulting company with the focus on topics in the field of the analysis, conception and implementation of complaint management, customer relationship management and services marketing. Wolfgang Seidel is frequent speaker at major conferences on complaint management and customer relationship management bo

Book Synopsis

Stauss (services management, Ingolstadt School of Management) and Seidel, a consultant in complaint management, outline a process for receiving and handling complaints more efficiently. They show how to establish a complaint resolution process and how to analyze and solve complaints, and provide an analysis tool for identifying problem areas for a product or service. There is also information on organizational, technological, and human resources aspects of complaint management. Numerous checklists and tables are included. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents

1Complaint management in a customer-oriented firm1
2Complaints16
3The behavior of dissatisfied customers21
4Principles of complaint management30
5Complaint stimulation36
6Complaint acceptance53
7Complaint processing73
8Complaint reaction92
9Complaint analysis118
10Complaint-management controlling138
11Complaint reporting203
12Utilization of complaint information216
13Human resource aspects of complaint management228
14Organizational aspects of complaint management249
15Technological aspects of complaint management275
16Complaint-management checklist291

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