Plato and the Ethics of Management Consultancy Interventions

2022 ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
David Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Management Consultancy

Management Consultancy

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Czerniawska
Keyword(s):  
Management Consultancy

scholarly journals Fragmented fields: Professionalisms and work settings in Italian management consultancy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Maestripieri
Keyword(s):  
Professional Service ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Professional Service Firms ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Management Consultants ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Management Consultancy ◽  
Professional Service Firm

Abstract Management consultancy has long been a contested terrain in the sociology of the professions. Although the professionalism of management consultants has always been emphasized by practitioners themselves, the lack of a strong community of peers has been an impediment to their professionalization. In this article, I argue that professionalism is not the outcome of a process of regulation and institutionalization but that it has to be conceived a discourse comprising norms, worldviews, and values that define what is appropriate for an individual to be considered a competent and recognized member of this community. Given the diversity characterizing the field, there are multiple discourses surrounding professionalism of management consultants, and these discourses are shaped by work settings. Work settings are a combination of the type of organization professional partnership or professional service firm and the employment status (employee or self-employed). Drawing on the empirical evidence from various work settings (professional service firms, professional partnership, and self-employment), I investigate four clusters of practitioners identified in 55 biographical and semi-structured interviews conducted with management consultants in Italy. Four types of professionalism emerge from the clusters. Organizing professionalism is the sole professionalism that appears in all work settings. Other discourses (corporate, commercialized, and hybrid professionalism) are context-dependent and more likely to be found in specific work settings.

scholarly journals Technology transfer: systems used by a Wairarapa farm consultancy firm

1993 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
C. Garland
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Technical Competence ◽  
Management Consultancy ◽  
Professional Independence ◽  
Consultancy Firm ◽  
Local Farm ◽  
Successful Technology

This paper outlines the systems of technology transfer used by a local farm management consultancy firm. The clientele of the firm is profiled along with the expectations of that clientele. The paper outlines the methods by which the firm receives technology input and the methods by which it transfers that technology. The evaluation of the success of that technology transfer is also described. The author emphasises the importance of technical competence and professional independence in the consultancy profession. He also outlines his philosophy on technology transfer. This philosophy maintains that agriculture is a people-based industry and that the most successful technology transfer will occur where the bearer of that technology has credibility and is a good communicator, whether he or she is a farmer, consultant or a scientist. Keywords: client servicing, communication skills, farm discussion groups, management newsletter, people-based industry, professional independence, technical competence, "trickle-down" effect

Conscience as control – managing employees through CSR

Organization ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Costas ◽  
Dan Kärreman
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Management Consultancy ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Corporate Social

Corporate social responsibility has become an important topic for both academics and practitioners. CSR typically stands for corporate responses to ethical, environmental and social issues. Whilst extant research has predominately focused on CSR in relation to external stakeholders and taking a macro-institutional and/or functionalist perspective, we provide a critical engagement with the interactions between CSR, employees and management control within organizations. Qualitative data gathered at two management consultancy firms demonstrate how CSR discourses and practices serve to construct an idealized image of a socially, ecologically and ethically responsible corporate self. In this way, CSR works as a form of aspirational control that ties employees’ aspirational identities and ethical conscience to the organization. The article discusses the implications of CSR concerning cynical distancing, ethical sealing and the space for politics and critique in corporations.

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