...Don Chrusciel When an organization decides to hire an external consultant to assist in dealing with a significant change, the question arises as to how to choose the right one for the job. The focus of this paper is to explore this relationship through three propositions. The first proposes...

...Chris Watkin; Ben Hubbard This article is a summary of consulting field research carried out by Hay Group to answer why leadership motivation matters to the drivers of share price. The summary also aims to explain how measuring organisational climate can help leaders better understand the effect...

...Martin E. Smith Presents research on the contributions of consultants to organizational change. Respondents to a multi‐company survey were asked to describe specific change projects. A total of 107 respondents said that consultants had supported the change effort. These respondents were asked...

...Alistair Russell Managers Consultants A potentially useful and accessible guide that does exactly what it says on the cover!What the book lacks in balance and objective coverage of the field of consultancy is made up for in the provision of straightforward, practical examples...

...Gregory E. Huszczo; Maureen Sheahan Conventional wisdom suggests that a consultant serving a joint union‐management organization development (OD) change effort acts as a third‐party neutral. However, this paper documents why both parties may distrust the OD consultant and other dangers associated...

...Jean E. Neumann; Eric J. Miller; Richard Holti Contemporary organisational realities challenge consultants to develop: more up‐to‐date motivational knowledge; the ability and willingness to work with change agents unsympathetic to applied social science; and, facility with methodologies for both...

...Judith Chapman The current challenges facing nonprofit organizations in developed countries are clarification of mission and values, strengthening the structure and improving systems of accountability. Increasingly, senior executives are engaging external process consultants to assist...

... to the lecture room. Although vital to successful outcomes in management development, it is an equally vital tool in genera consultancy and in creating success in meetings, albei without authority. Facilitation is allied to coaching, leadership and teaching but is different. To facilitate is to ensure...

... Phase: Planning meeting with internal consultant ‐her/his diagnosis, vision,strategy, planning initial intervention, choice of facilitators. Contracting with chief executive – her/his diagnosis, vision,expectations. Planning meeting with facilitator team ‐diagnosis, vision, strategy,“charter...

...Anthony Berry; Katy Oakley Presents the results of a first research survey of consulting firms within the United Kingdom. Examines the usefulness of knowledge typology as a way of categorizing firms and the differences, if any, between the firms. Explores the firms′ sources of knowledge, knowledge...

... and understanding of this process, since they are in the business of helping organizations work through change. As a group, OD practitioners and consultants have been facilitating, training and working with change from the very inception of the field in the early 1960s. In fact, the theoretical underpinnings...

...Eric Miller Describes a weekend workshop on contemporary organizational consultancy, held in April 1992. Themes explored included types and levels of consultation; styles of intervention; consultation as a facilitation, as education, as a political process; changing needs of organizational clients...

..., they intervene. Practical guidance in how to do these three things is provided, with theoretical back‐up. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Consultants Groups Organizational development Training 8 LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL 13,4 L earn how to take in what is going on, make sense...

... practitioners are given. The research findings are derived from telephone interviews with 18 highly experienced and respected OD consultants. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Consultants Organizational development Research USA THE CHANGING PRACTICE OF ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT 25 W hat changes have...

... confused. A way forward is offered by considering the cultural approach as a way of approaching organisational data. Advantages of a culturally sensitive approach by consultants and managers involved in organisational change and problem solving are described. These include an holistic approach to data...

...David Coghlan Process consultation is an approach to organisational intervention created by Edgar Schein. It describes a philosophy of helping that is based on the collaborative working of consultant and client, paralleling the client‐centred approach in counselling, and contrasted with consultancy...