We explain what a service is and what its characteristics are. In addition, what does the intelligence service and the military service consist of?
Military service is a type of government service.What is service?
The concept of service comes from Latin servitĭum. It refers to the action to serve, however this concept has multiple meanings from the matter in which it is treated.
Services, from the point of view of marketing and the economy, are the activities that try to satisfy the needs of the customers. Services are the same as a good, but in a non-material or intangible way. This is because the service is only presented without the consumer own it.
See also: Public service
Characteristics of the services
The services can be administered both from the Condition, as from the private sectors, even in a mixed way. The services are defined as heterogeneous since the services provided can never be identical due to various variables, also as intangible since the user cannot touch them, this is the case of telephone lines from Customer Support. And as already mentioned it cannot be owned.
Some of the basic issues that it is considered that the services should provide is the good treatment of their clients, satisfying their needs, offering the possibility of gratitude or complaint, generally in writing.
Last but not least, service providers must comply with the agreement, which is usually determined by means of a contract. In them, the conditions of the services to be provided by the company must be clearly outlined. business or the state.
Intelligence services
Intelligence service is understood as the means to achieve information, under the idea of defense and security from a country. For this, the citizens, their activities and others to be able to create files and profiles thereof. However, many times these types of services go beyond the line of legality and they carry out activities such as wiretapping or spying.
Many times these can be government entities and others can be private, on certain occasions the latter exceed state borders, to generate interstate cooperation ties.
Military service
Military service has as objective dictate activities to train future soldiers. They are trained from the values and traditional customs, always accompanied by disciplinary limits. It is intended that the soldiers acquire values such as courage, honesty and come to love their homeland.
The specific objectives of military service are usually related to the preservation of the sovereignty of each country and its independence, but it is also important to highlight its intervention not only in occasions of internal social crises or foreign invasions, but also in the face of natural disasters. Today, military service is often optional in most countries.