Course Title: Manage organisational customer service

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5406 Diploma of Business

Course Title: Manage organisational customer service

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 40

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Important Information:


Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities. 

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Please check your Canvas course shell closer to when the course starts to see if this course requires mandatory in-person attendance. The delivery method of the course might have to change quickly in response to changes in the local state/national directive regarding in-person course attendance. 

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Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

MKTG6115C

City Campus

TAFE

525T Business & Enterprise

Face-to-Face or Internet

Term2 2022,
Term2 2023,
Term1 2024

Course Contact: Jeremy Glover

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 1425

Course Contact Email: jeremy.glover@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to develop strategies to manage organisational systems that ensure products and services are delivered and maintained to standards agreed by the organisation.

The unit applies to individuals who supervise customer service provided by others within an organisation. At this level, individuals must exercise considerable discretion and judgement, using a range of problem solving and decision making strategies.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

BSBOPS505 Manage organisational customer service

Elements:

1. Establish customer requirements

2. Deliver quality products and services

3. Evaluate customer service


Learning Outcomes

This course is structured to provide students with the optimum learning experience in order to demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to develop strategies to manage organisational systems that ensure products and services are delivered and maintained to standards agreed by the organisation.


Overview of Assessment


 In order to achieve competency in this unit, you must provide:

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

  • develop and review strategy for delivering and monitoring quality customer service for an organisation or work area.

In the course of the above, the candidate must:

  • implement quality customer service policies and procedures
  • identify and resolve system problems relating to poor customer service
  • assist teams to meet customer service requirements
  • develop, procure and use human and physical resources to support quality customer service delivery.

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

  • legislative and regulatory frameworks governing customer service
  • elements of effective customer service including quality, time and cost
  • organisational policies and procedures for customer service and handling customer complaints
  • relevant service standards and best practice models
  • key principles of public relations and product promotion
  • common techniques for solving complaints
  • principles and techniques involved in managing:
  • customer behaviour
  • specific customer needs
  • customer research
  • customer relations
  • ongoing product and service quality
  • problem identification and resolution
  • quality customer service delivery
  • record keeping and management methods
  • strategies for monitoring, managing and introducing ways to improve customer service relationships
  • strategies to obtain customer feedback.

Assessment Conditions

Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry.

This includes access to:

  • legislation, regulations and codes of practice related to customer service
  • workplace documentation and resources
  • complex customer complaints.

Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

Feedback
Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or online discussions.  You are encouraged to ask and answer questions during class time and online sessions so that you can obtain feedback on your understanding of the concepts and issues being discussed.  Finally, you can email or arrange an appointment with your teacher to gain more feedback on your progress.

You should take note of all feedback received and use this information to improve your learning outcomes and final performance in the course.