Capturing the Competence of Management Consulting Work

Autor/in	Visscher, Klaasjan
Titel	Capturing the Competence of Management Consulting Work
Quelle	In: Journal of Workplace Learning, 18 (2006) 4, S.248-260 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-5626
DOI	10.1108/13665620610665845
Schlagwörter	Consultants; Methods; Foreign Countries; Competence; Administration; Knowledge Management; Information Technology; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Consultant; Berater; Method; Methode; Ausland; Kompetenz; Verwaltung; Wissensmanagement; Informationstechnologie; Niederlande
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of this article is to assess whether the effort of consulting firms and branch organizations to establish a shared and standardized methodology as a means to professionalize consulting and as a standard for training is possible and sensible. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was conducted among Dutch management consultants, which explored their ways of working and their ways of learning. Findings: The study shows that efforts to develop a shared and standardized phase-model methodology do not seem to be effective. Instead of following phase-models, consultants appear to be improvising bricoleurs, tailoring their ways of working to specific situations, and using broad, heterogeneous and partly implicit repertoires, which are built through mainly through action-learning. This requires another kind of methodology and another kind of training. Research limitations/implications: The article gives a general direction for the development of a consulting methodology and the education of consultants. Further research on consulting practices and repertoires is necessary to explore this direction. Practical implications: The paper concludes that the value of phase-models as a standard is limited. Therefore, branch organizations, consulting firms and corporate universities should not focus their professionalization and training activities on these standardized methods. Originality/value: Little work has been done yet on the relation between professionalization, methods, and training in management consulting, and no earlier publication has studied this topic quantitatively. (Contains 3 tables and 6 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10