CONSULTING METHODS (BA5019)

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This course engages students with advanced themes and methods in management consultancy, both in theory and in practice. We will take a critical approach to understand how theory influences practice and how our perceptions of management consultancy evolve over time and circumstance. Students will examine management consultancy in terms of specific cultural, international and organizational elements given specific consulting frameworks.

Code: 
BA5019
Name: 
CONSULTING METHODS
Discipline: 
BA (Business)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Graduate
Credits: 
2
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
Major=MSc: International Management OR Major=MSc: Int'l Mgmt (NGO & Mission-Based Track) OR Major=MSc: Int'l Mgmt (Sustainability Systems Track) OR Major=MSc: Strategic Brand Management
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyze complex (“wicked”) management problems, where uncertainty is present, and significant disagreement about the strategies and policies to be taken.
  2. Demonstrate practical experience in dealing with management consultancy issues with a high standard of professional and personal ethics.
  3. Demonstrate problem-solving in an organizational context, including information gathering, data analysis, research methods, implementation and evaluation.
  4. Evaluate conventional and critical approaches and frameworks of management consultancy in business practices and explore how they influence our current management perceptions.
  5. To apply mainstream and critical management theories and methodologies and apply them in case studies and a live-client consulting project.

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Spring 2025 BA5019 CONSULTING METHODS

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