GASTRONOMY (TURKISH) | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ENM5242 | Service Operations Management | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Assoc. Prof. BARIŞ SELÇUK |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | N.A. |
Course Objectives: | This course is intended to provide students with in depth knowledge of principles and theory of service operations management. The broad topic of service operations management will be studied from an integrated viewpoint with a focus on customer satisfaction and service delivery. This course will provide students with the concepts and tools necessary to understand the distinctive characteristics of services and provide solutions for important management problems. The topics that are covered in this course include understanding and describing service systems, designing services, managing and improving service quality, and managing demand and supply in service operations. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Define the distinctive characteristics of services. II. Describe a service by using the service package concept. III. Describe a service’s front-stage and backstage activities and illustrate the blue-print of a service. IV. Describe five different quality gaps of service. Identify these gaps in case studies. V. Illustrate the process flow diagram of a service. VI. Identify bottleneck activities, calculate rush order flow times, cycle times and throughput times of a service. VII. Use linear programming to construct DEA models of different service units. Solve the DEA model and identify efficient and inefficient service units. VIII. Find the optimal location of a service facility by using cross-median approach. IX. Find the optimal location of a service facility by using euclidean approach. X. Use Huff retail location model to calculate the market share of a service facility in a competitive environment. XI. Describe the overbooking strategy used in airlines and hotels. Define booking limits and protection levels. XII. Find the optimal booking limits for a reservation system by using theories of optimization and probability. XIII. Describe a queueing system by identifying its queue configuration, queue discipline, arrival pattern, service pattern and capacity. XIV. Describe the psychological aspects of waiting lines. XV. Use queueing theory to calculate the average waiting time per customer, average number of customers in the queue. |
Service definition, service package, characteristics of service, service quality, managing demand and supply in service, service facility location decisions, queuing theory applications in service, data envelopment analysis, revenue management. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Understanding Services: Introduction to Service Operations Management, Characteristics and Classification of Services, Service Strategies | |
2) | Service Design: Generic Approaches, Service Blueprinting, Service Quality | |
3) | Service Design: Generic Approaches, Service Blueprinting, Service Quality | |
4) | Service Design: Service Processes Improvement, Data Envelopment Analysis | |
5) | Service Design: Data Envelopment Analysis | |
6) | Service Design: Service Facility Location | |
7) | MIDTERM I | |
8) | Managing Service Operations: Managing Capacity and Demand, Yield Management | |
9) | Managing Service Operations: Yield Management | |
10) | Managing Service Operations: Yield Management | |
11) | Quantitative Models for Service Management: Capacity Planning and Queuing Models, Preparation for MIDTERM II Exam | |
12) | MIDTERM II | |
13) | Quantitative Models for Service Management: Capacity Planning and Queuing Models | |
14) | Review | |
15) | Preparation for the final exam | |
16) | FINAL |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Fitzsimmons, James A. and Mona J. Fitzsimmons, Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, Singapore, 2008. |
References: | Johnston, Robert and Graham Clark, Service Operations Management: Improving Service Delivery, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, London, 2008. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 5 | % 15 |
Midterms | 2 | % 50 |
Final | 1 | % 35 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 65 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 35 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 12 | 3 | 36 |
Homework Assignments | 5 | 10 | 50 |
Midterms | 2 | 32 | 64 |
Final | 1 | 50 | 50 |
Total Workload | 200 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | - Possess advanced level theoretical and practical knowledge supported by textbooks with updated information, practice equipments and other resources. | |
2) | Use of advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within the field. -Interpret and evaluate data, define and analyze problems, develop solutions based on research and proofs by using acquired advanced knowledge and skills within the field. | |
3) | Inform people and institutions, transfer ideas and solution proposals to problems in written and orally on issues in the field. - Share the ideas and solution proposals to problems on issues in the field with professionals and non-professionals by the support of qualitative and quantitative data. -Organize and implement project and activities for social environment with a sense of social responsibility. -Monitor the developments in the field and communicate with peers by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level. -Use informatics and communication technologies with at least a minimum level of European Computer Driving License Advanced Level software knowledge. | |
4) | Evaluate the knowledge and skills acquired at an advanced level in the field with a critical approach. -Determine learning needs and direct the learning. -Develop positive attitude towards lifelong learning. | |
5) | Act in accordance with social, scientific, cultural and ethic values on the stages of gathering, implementation and release of the results of data related to the field. - Possess sufficient consciousness about the issues of universality of social rights, social justice, quality, cultural values and also, environmental protection, worker's health and security. | |
6) | Conduct studies at an advanced level in the field independently. - Take responsibility both as a team member and individually in order to solve unexpected complex problems faced within the implementations in the field. - Planning and managing activities towards the development of subordinates in the framework of a project |