Será maldade?

"customers don't just consume service; they also participate in creating it. And they're not always good at their job.
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customers can also be dramatically different from each other. This diversity dramatically increases the variability that is introduced on the "factory floor" of service production. Variability of operating inputs (materials, processing time, worker skill) is public enemy number one in a manufacturing environment. It's the barrier to the critical goal of 100 percent utilization. But service managers are constantly being inundated with variability, in the form of customer-operators who are a little bit different from the last one who showed up - a little faster, slower, smarter, pickier, later, earlier, or more or less prepared to do the job.
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For most companies, screening customers usually means checking their credit, not evaluating their fit from an operational perspective. But that is precisely what many service companies should be doing.
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Think of all the resources you devote to hiring good employees: interviews, background checks; references; tests for ability, motivation, and cultural fit. Now think of the energy you spend on "hiring" the right customers. In most companies, there's no comparisons, even though customer behavior can have just as much of an operational impact as employee behavior. Customers can play a defining role in your ability to deliver great service at a sustainable cost. And the greater your expectations for your customer-operators, the more time you need to devote to choosing the right people for the job."
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Será maldade uma empresa rejeitar um certo tipo de cliente por que não se adequa à sua estrutura produtiva?
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A maior parte das vezes as empresas rejeitam esta abordagem não por que pensem que há maldade mas por que acreditam que rejeitar um cliente é estupidez.
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Será?
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Será mesmo?

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Trechos retirados de "Uncommon Service" de Frances Frei e Anne Morriss.