Course Aims
To enable the student to have a broad based understanding and awareness of all factors that affect organisational effectiveness
To enable the student to appreciate the value of analysis, judgement and decision making
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the students will have the ability to:
- Organise and control management consultancy projects
- Apply strategic management principles to achieve competitive advantage
- Understand the underlying forces and constraints of change
- Develop a logical and reasoned approach to problem solving
- Communicate effectively ideas and recommendations
- Demonstrate sensitivity to behavioural issues
- Apply creativity to resolve problems
Course Syllabus
- Responsibilities and accountability of Management Consultants
- Analysis and Evaluation of problems
- Management consulting interventions
- Strategic Management Principles and Practice
- Measuring organisational performance
- Change interventions
- Organisational Behaviour
Recommended Reading List
Philip & Louise Wickham, Management Consulting: Delivering an Effective Project 3rd Edition. ISBN10: 0273711849
Matthias Kipping (Editor), Lars Engwall (Editor): Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry (Paperback)
Fiona Czerniawska .P. May, Management Consulting in Practice (Paperback)
