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"The field of management consultancy research has grown rapidly in recent years. Fuelled by the drivers of complexity and uncertainty, a growing number of organizations - both profit and third sector alike - are looking at management consultancy to assist in their aims for development and change. Consultants have become a common feature in organizational change initiatives, involved in both providing advice and in implementing ideas and solutions. However, despite this growing recognition and influence, management consultancy is still often misunderstood or criticized for its lack of theoretical underpinning. The book seeks to address these issues by offering applied theoretical insights from academics that both teach and practice management consultancy. Written by recognized experts in their field, the contributors combine original insights with authoritative analysis. Uniquely, this book identifies emerging themes with critical discourse and provides rich empirical case study evidence to show the reader how management consultancy projects are implemented. Real-world international consultancy projects are featured, as written up as cases featuring organizations from multi-national corporations to the public sector. Written for graduate level managers or those that have practical leadership experience, this book will enable readers to apply management consultancy models beyond a classroom context"--Provided by publisher.

The work of campaign consultants in elections outside of their countries of origin is a relatively recent phenomenon. Joe Napolitan is credited as becoming the first international consultant in modern times when, in 1969, he worked on the successful reelection bid of Ferdinand Marcos. As recently as 1972, Napolitan wrote of a certain reticence in some countries toward using non-native campaign consultants A decade later, Larry Sabato (1981) saw evidence that use of non-native consultants was becoming a more accepted practice in campaigns worldwide. By the end of the 1990s, according to David Swanson and Paolo Mancini (1996), consultants from the U.S., Germany, France, and Britain were becoming increasingly active in elections outside their own countries. Since the use of non-native campaign consultants is likely to increase into the forseeable future, I would like to use this article to set forth the beginnings of a research agenda, to present an outline of a project worth pursuing, for determining how and why foreign consultants are being, can be, or should be used. The article has three parts. First, I present an overview, based on available evidence, of the nature of overseas work by campaign consultants. Second, I explore some possible explanations for the rise of this phenomenon. Third, I assess the main institutional factors affecting the internationalization of consultancy.

"Consultancy is a lucrative industry dependent on the production and use of tools and techniques which hold out the promise of success for the organisations it supports: transformation, or greater efficiency and effectiveness, perhaps even culture change. However, a critical and important question is whether these promises are fulfilled in everyday practice in organisations. Is it possible at all for consultants to predict and control the changes that their clients ask for? This volume reframes the role of consultants from detached observers wielding a stable body of knowledge useful in all contexts, to that of skilled participants in the conscious and unconscious processes of organisational life. In this book, one of three in a series looking at complexity and management, the expert authors bring together their experiences to provide vibrant accounts of how to lead in everyday organizational situations using practical judgement. The book includes a brief historical introduction to complexity and leadership, real-world narratives illustrating concrete dilemmas in the workplace, and a concluding chapter that draws together the practical and theoretical implications. With both theoretical grounding and practical insights from managers and consultants in leading firms, this is an ideal resource for executives and students on leadership development and talent management programmes, as well as those undertaking higher education courses in leadership and consulting"--

The text is built around learning objectives to help students to understand the 'what', 'how', 'when' and 'why' at macro and micro levels of management consultancy and its stakeholders, and provides engaging real life examples and extra web materials for study

Chapter 1: Rethinking Language in the Professions: New Departures for Global Workplace Research (Louise Mullany) -- Part I: Business and Organisations -- Chapter 2: Training "International Engineers" in Japan: discourse, Discourse and Stereotypes (Michael Handford) -- Chapter 3: The Relevance of Applied Linguistic and Discourse Research: On the Margins of Communication Consultancy (Erika Darics) -- Chapter 4: Language, Gender and Leadership: Applying the Sociolinguistics of Narrative Identity in East Africa (Masibo Lumala and Louise Mullany) -- Chapter 5: Culture Change and Rebranding in the Charity Sector: A Linguistic Consultancy Approach (Veronika Koller and Gill Ereaut) -- Chapter 6: The Practitioner's View: The Value of Linguistics in International Business Consultancy (Roshni Mooneeram) -- Part II: Healthcare -- Chapter 7: Talking About Diabetes and Healthy Lifestyle in Primary Healthcare: Translating Research Findings into Practice (Maria Stubbe, Lindsay Macdonald, Rachel Tester, Lesley Gray, Jo Hilder, Kevin Dew and Tony Dowell) -- Chapter 8: Speaking of Digital Communication: Home-based Telehealth for Patients and Providers (Boyd Davis, Kathryn van Ravenstein and Charlene Pope) -- Chapter 9: Communication Accommodation Theory as an Intervention Tool to Improve Interprofessional Practice in Healthcare (Bernadette Watson) -- Chapter 10: Communicating Nuanced Results in Language Consultancy: the Case of Cancer and the Violence Metaphor (Zsófia Demjén and Elena Semino) -- Chapter 11: 'We Might Have a Conversation Once a Week But the Quality is Very High': Research and Consultancy in Primary Care Multidisciplinary Teams (Claire Mann) -- Part III: Institutions: Politics, Law and Education -- Chapter 12: Social Media Interventions and the Language of Political Campaigns: From Online Petitions to Platform Policy Changes (Clare Hardaker) -- Chapter 13: The Language of Misogyny as a Hate Crime: Policy, Politics and Policing (Louise Mullany and Loretta Trickett) -- Chapter 14: Changing Educational Policies: Language and Sexuality in Schools (Helen Sauntson) -- Chapter 15: Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Consultancy: How Do Linguists Approach the Task of Evaluating Sociolinguistic Practice in Linguistic Consultancy Sessions? (Kieran File and Stephanie Schnurr) -- Chapter 16: The View From Outside: Communicating Influence and Organisational Change: Reflections from a Police Chief Constable (Susannah Fish) -- Chapter 17: Future Directions: What Next? (Janet Holmes).