{"title":"The Skills Most in Demand for Transformational Leadership Consultants","authors":"M. Sayyadi","doi":"10.2478/mcj-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367213,"journal":{"name":"Management Consulting Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128650988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elitism in Strategy Consulting: How Institutional Prestige Influences Recruitment","authors":"Ioanna Mavridopoulou, J. O’Mahoney","doi":"10.2478/mcj-2020-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2020-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How and why do strategy consultancies prioritise graduates from elite universities, and is this practice doing them more harm than good? The association of top strategy firms with elite universities is well-known, but this study suggests that the practice is done more for signaling and ‘fit’ reasons than for recruiting outstanding talent. Using anonymous interviews with recruiters, partners, and consultants at strategy firms, and drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital, this paper suggests that these practices may do more harm than good.","PeriodicalId":367213,"journal":{"name":"Management Consulting Journal","volume":"244 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121877530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Class and Masculinity in Contemporary Management Consulting Firms: Some Practical Recommendations","authors":"A. Giazitzoglu, Daniel Muzlo","doi":"10.2478/mcj-2020-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2020-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is relatively unusual for white, working-class men to find employment in prestigious management consultancy firms. When they do find employment in these firms, their working-class masculinity is seen as problematic, and not in line with clients’ and co- workers’ expectations. In turn, they must modify their identity, by learning and enacting what the literature refers to as “corporate masculinity”. But how does this learning process occur? And how can consultancy firms better integrate working class men, to maximise the value of their contributions? Based on empirical research we conducted (Giazitzoglu and Muzio, forthcoming), this short piece explores the experiences of a pool of white working-class men who found employment as IT specialists in a prestigious management consultancy firm. After discussing our research and what it reveals about the way professionals from working class backgrounds learn corporate masculinity, we consider some practical recommendations.","PeriodicalId":367213,"journal":{"name":"Management Consulting Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115323524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Should We Govern Management Consultancy?","authors":"Andrew Sturdy","doi":"10.2478/mcj-2020-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2020-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367213,"journal":{"name":"Management Consulting Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128275939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Through the Looking Glass – Consultants on Professionalism in Consulting","authors":"Olga Matthias","doi":"10.2478/mcj-2019-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2019-0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367213,"journal":{"name":"Management Consulting Journal","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124958590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming an Authentic Leadership Development Consultant","authors":"M. Sayyadi","doi":"10.2478/mcj-2019-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2019-0007","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this article is based upon the critical role of management consultants to develop authentic leadership that has emerged as a more applicable and more adaptable leadership model than the many others that are available today. Leadership has always been at the forefront of management training (Mills, 2005). However, the four functions of management depict leadership as one of the four. For instance, Henri Fayol has been posited as the forefather of the functions of management. While he had more than four in his original publication in France which was translated to English in the 1930s, the four that seemed to stand the test of time are organising, leading, planning, and controlling.","PeriodicalId":367213,"journal":{"name":"Management Consulting Journal","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126748114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growing the Next-Gen Membership: Securing Established Institutes of Management Consultings’ Futures","authors":"Randy H. Baldwin, S. Haslam, M. Brennan","doi":"10.2478/mcj-2019-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2019-0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367213,"journal":{"name":"Management Consulting Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122345364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internal Consulting Units: A Flexible Friend?","authors":"J. Chen, Christoph Williams, Tuan Son Tran","doi":"10.2478/mcj-2019-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2019-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Market disruption and associated client anxiety have become the norm. Digital transformation drives new business models, globalisation amplifies the impact of often controversial economic and policy developments, and available young talent has become scarce. Meanwhile, in the background, the world is facing an environmental catastrophe like never before. Under normal circumstances, senior leaders of organisations would turn to external consultancies in search of answers to such challenges. Reliance on the incumbent strategy behemoths like McKinsey & Company, the Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company is, however, no longer a given. Management consultancy firms themselves have also been disrupted (Williams, 2019).","PeriodicalId":367213,"journal":{"name":"Management Consulting Journal","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128893882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Successful Consulting in Practise: Why Technical Expertise is Not Enough","authors":"Anne Cannings, T. Hills","doi":"10.2478/mcj-2019-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2019-0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367213,"journal":{"name":"Management Consulting Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131809129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}