Long residential courses for professional managers are a very special type of service industry, presenting peculiar problems for the course organiser to manage. Even limiting our analysis to the course leader and the participants, expectations of what the course should achieve will vary. As part of the expectations will usually not be made explicit, they are difficult to get at, and as in other service industries the customers have to be involved in producing these hard-to-identify benefits.
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