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Management Consulting
UoS Code WORK6111
Credit points 6
Offered Semester 2
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Lectures Three hours per week
Assessment Continuous: Essay, group presentation, group project
Description This unit explores the role, influence and activities of management consultants in Australia and overseas. It examines management consultants as developers and disseminators of management knowledge and practice and their role as change agents. The main themes covered in the subject include: the consulting industry in Australia and overseas; consultant roles and the consultant-client relationship; consultants and organisational change; knowledge intensive firms and the management of expertise; the diffusion of management knowledge and fashion in a global economy; consulting as an occupation and career; managing a consultancy.