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ECCM 405 — Public Sector Marketing Management

Marketing & Entrepreneurship · University of Ghana

The public sector in most developing countries is bedevilled by an acute lack of a service marketing orientation and this has led to inefficiencies in several developing economy public institutions, Ghana, not excluded. Public Sector Marketing Management examines the role of marketing in public organizations, from planning through execution and evaluation. It looks at marketing from the perspective of creating value for different organisational stakeholders. This course examines specific applications for public sector organisations such as local government in the context of leisure, culture and the arts, regeneration, education and social services. The main theme of the course is creating value for stakeholders through a philosophy based on setting a vision, creating and communicating the values and establishing a culture. This course on marketing the public sector focuses on how a more market oriented approach can be adopted by public sector institutions. Key topics that will be covered include service marketing challenges faced by the public sector, public sector marketing tools, creating and measuring stakeholder value, corporate brand building and delivering services, marketing process management and moment of truth encounters.

Credits
3
Level
Level 400
Semester
Semester One

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Course details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).