...Antonie van Nistelrooij; Thijs Homan The paper can be of value to consultants who are working as a facilitator, as well as to management scholars and practitioners in the field of change management. Organizational change Organizational autoethnography Management consultancy Unexpected...

...Jonas Bäcklund; Andreas Werr Purpose Hiring management consultants as external support in organizational change is in the literature described as a socially and emotionally stressful activity for managers. Management consultants need to deal with these threatening aspects of their service...

... picture of the HRM situation in Romania. Human resource management Managers Training Management consultancy Until recently, the field of human resource management (HRM) has not formally existed in Romania. Similarly, there have been no different words for leadership and management...

...Alexis Downs; Dominique Besson; Pierre Louart; Rita Durant; Andrea Whittle Purpose To outline paradoxes found in literature on management consulting and present a novel way of re‐conceptualizing paradox using a performative or action‐oriented approach to discourse. Design/methodology/approach...

... to fit the organisation’s purposes (Keenoy and Anthony, 1992, p. 239). © MCB UP Limited 2000 Organizations Knowledge workers Economy Management consultancy Ethnography As Karin Legge has insisted over and over again in her studies, human relations (HR), or applied...