A Practical Guide to Handling Consumer Complaints
This guide to handling customer complaints discusses why it is in business's interest to give a high priority to effective complaint management. It recommends practical procedures for reviewing and resolving customer complaints and for using them as management and marketing tools.
Source: Government of Canada
Table of Contents
Handling Complaints : A Critical Form of Communications
Why is Complaint Handling Important?
Management's Role
Cost and Savings
Complaint Handling Staff
Publicizing the Complaint Management System
Co-ordination with Others in the Distribution Chain
Third-party Dispute Resolution
Basic Steps for Effective Complaint Management
Conclusion
Complaint System Checklist
Entire Guide
2) Serving the American Public: Best Practices in Handling Customer Complaints
This study was conducted by the American government in co-operation with over 50 private companies. It provides practical lessons learned and measurements you can use to evaluate your own policies and procedures related to customer complaint handling.
Release Date: 06/11/96
Source: Federal Benchmarking Consortium
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Overview
Leadership Strategies for Satisfying Customers
Information and Analysis
Planning
Human Resource Development and Management
Managing Customer Expectations and Satisfaction
Complaint Process Management
Business Results
Appendix I: Reinventing Complaint Resolution
Footnotes
3) Consumer Complaints Management
A Guide for Canadian Business
The objective of the Guide is to assist businesses and industry associations contemplating Consumer Complaints Management initiatives, and those that have initiatives in place but wish to consider ways of improving them.
Source: Government of Canada
Table of Contents
Summary
Introduction
Market-based Consumer Complaints Handling Initiatives
Preventive Consumer Complaint Handling Initiatives
Internal Complaints Handling Initiatives
External Private Dispute Resolution Initiatives
Comprehensive Complaints Handling Systems
Characteristics of Effective Online Trustmark Programs
Online Redress
The Need for Effective Consumer Complaint Handling Initiatives
Consumer Complaint Handling Initiatives and the Law
Developing and Implementing Complaint Handling Initiatives
Elements of Successful Consumer Complaint Handling Initiatives
Where Can I Get More Help?
Handling Customer Complaints: Practical Best Practice Guides
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