The document discusses customer expectations for service recovery when problems occur. It outlines that customers expect a response, accountability, quick help, fair treatment, and compensation for issues. The eight most common remedies customers seek are repair/fixing the problem, reimbursement, future credits, explanations, assurances, appreciation, apologies, and venting frustrations. Customers also expect fairness in the outcome, procedures, and interactions. Effective service recovery strategies include acting quickly, providing explanations, treating customers fairly, cultivating relationships, learning from experiences, and implementing guarantees to build confidence and continuously improve.

1. Service Recovery
Customers recovery expectations
When customers take the time and effort to complain,
generally they have high expectations.
They not only expect a responce;
 They expect the firm to be accountable
 To be helped quickly
 To be treated nicely in the process
 To be compensated for their grief and for the hassle of
being inconvenienced.

2. Customers recovery
expectations
Understanding and Accountability
Eight most common «remedies» that customers seek
when they experience a serious problem;
Three of this remedies are;
 To have the product repaired or service fixed
 Be reimbursed for the hassle of having experienced a
problem
 Receive a free product or service in the future

3. Customers recovery
expectations
Understanding and Accountability
The Other five remedies ;
 Including an explanation by the firm
 Assurance that the problem will not be repeated
 Thank you for the customers’ business
 An apology from the firm
 An opportunity for the customer to vent his/her
frustrations
These five nonmonetary remedies providing employees the
opportunity to communicate with customers.

4. Customers recovery
expectations
Fair Treatment
Service recovery experts Steve Brown and Stave Tax have
documented three spesific types of justice that consumers
are looking for following their complaints ;
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Outcome fairness
Procedural fairness
Interactional fairness

5. Fairness Themes in Service
Recovery

6. Fair Treatment
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Outcome Fairness
Customers expect equity in the exchange ,
They want to feel that the company has paid for its
mistakes in a manner at least equal to what customer has
suffered.
The company’s punishment should fit the crime .
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Interactional Fairness
Customers expect to be treated politely, with care and
honesty.

7. Fair Treatment
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Prosedural Fairness
Customers expect fairness in terms of policies, rules and
timeliness of the complaint process.
- They want easy access to the complaint process and
things to be handled quickly, preferably by the first person
they contact.
- Fair procedures are characterized by clarity, speed and
absence of hassles.
- Customers feel unfair if they have to proof their case.

8. Switching versus staying following
service recovery
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Researchers found that customers who were not
satisfied with the service recovery were much likely to
switch to a different provider.
The magnitude and criticality of the failure will clearly be
a factor in the future repurchase decisions;
If the failure more serious, customer is to switch no
matter what the recovery effort.
To remian loyal to the service provider or to switch to
another provider.

9. Switching versus staying following
service recovery
Types of customers’ relationship with the firm also influence
whether the customers stays or switches providers.
If customers have a true relationships with service providers are
more forgiving of service failures and less likely to switch than
are those who have a pseudo-relationship or a first time
encounter.
True relationship : customer has had repeated contact over
time with the same service provider.
First time encounter : customer has had only one contact.
Pseudo relationship : customer has interacted many times
with the same company, but with different service providers
each time.

10. Service Recovery Strategies

11. Service Recovery Strategies
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Make the service fail-safe
- to do it right the first time
Encourage and Track complaints:
- Satisfaction surveys
- Critical incidents studies
- Lost customer research

12. Service Recovery Strategies
Act quickly
Complaining customers want quick responses. Half of
all customers who have problems resolved immediately or
with in 24 hours are completely satisfied.
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Many companies require customers contact lots of
employees to solve a complaint.Research suggest that
if a problem can be handled by the first contact
customer satisfied with the firms response
%46, however once three or more contacts are needed
the percentage drops to %21.

13. Service Recovery Strategies
Provide Adequate Explanations
Explanations can help diffuse negative reactions and
convey respect for the customer.
Firm’s ability to provide adequate outcome is not
successful, further dissatisfaction can be reduced if an
adequate explanation provided to the customer.
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Content of the explanation must be appropriate and style
of the delivery of the explanation also reduce customer
dissatisfaction.

14. Service Recovery Strategies
Treat Customers Fairly
Customers expect to be treated fairly.
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Cultivate Relationships with customers
Research suggests that strong customer-firm relationships can
help shield the firm from negative effects of failures on customer
satisfaction.
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Learn from recovery experiences
Problem – resolution situations are opportunuties to fix flawed
services and strengthen ties with customers.
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Learn from lost customers
Another key of an effective service recovery strategy is to learn
from the customers who defect or decide to leave.
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15. Service Guarantees
A guarantee is a particular type of recovery tool.
With a tangible product,the customer is quaranteed that it
will perform as promised and if not it can be returned.
With services , it is generally not possible to take returns or
to undo what has been performed.
Companies find they can guarantee their services and that
are benefits for doing so.

16. Service Guarantees

17. Service Guarantees
Characteristics of Effective Guarantees
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Unconditional
Meaningful
Easy to Understand
Easy to Invoke

18. Benefits of Service Guarantees
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A good guarantee forces the company to focus on its
customers
An effective quarantee sets clear standards for the
organization
A good guarantee generates immediate and relevant
feedback from customers
When the quarantee is invoked there is an instant
opportunity to recover
Information generated through the quarantee can be
tracked and intagrated in to continuous improvement
efforts
For customers , the quarantee reduces their sence of
risk and builds confidence in the organization.