Aim: The aim of this study was to explore what the core domain of research means to consultant radiographers in clinical practice and to identify the key factors that facilitate or hinder research activity by this staff group. Design: Grounded theory research methodology was employed. There were three phases to the study: • Literature review. • Electronic questionnaires to all those in consultant radiographer posts as identified by the Society and College of Radiographers consultant radiographer network. • Twenty five consultant radiographers invited for telephone interview. Results: Results indicate there are variations across clinical specialties as to the amount and level of research undertaken by consultant radiographers. The principal barriers revealed were: lack of time; excessive clinical workload; lack of skills and confidence to undertake research; poor research culture; and lack of support. The main facilitators noted were: dedicated time, research training and up-skilling; mutually beneficial collaborations; managerial understanding of the research domain of the role; and research focussed on clinical demand. Conclusion: Research is one of the four core domains of consultant allied health professional and nursing roles but, as yet, it is not fully embedded into those of all consultant radiographers. Many consultant radiographers appear to spend more of their time on the ‘clinical expert’ element of their role at the expense of the research domain. This research identified factors, from the consultant radiographers’ perspective, that both support and hinder research and suggests that, with ‘an intelligent overview’, some of barriers could be overcome. This study concludes that there is an urgent need for consultant radiographers to understand why research is one of the four core domains and to recognise the need to embed research into their clinical practice.

As the whole environment is changing dramatically and competition is globalizing, corporations face a future hard to predict and control and have a strong desire for more help from outside. Therefore, the consulting industry which satisfies corporations¡¦ demand to solve their problems is growing faster and faster. With the suggestions and recommendations from consulting firms, some corporations really have better performance and become more competitive; however, others do not benefit but get big losses from consulting forms. So we can have a conclusion that solving corporations¡¦ problems from consulting firms is not the only way to choose. Nevertheless, this research hopes to provide corporations and consulting firms with some efficient methods when they are involved in consulting projects. According to the case study and integrating analysis, the main conclusions of this research are as following: 1. Corporations must understand what they need and measure they own capability before planning to have consulting, and then be able to evaluate if they need to have consulting. 2. When corporations plan and choose consulting firms, they can benefit more by starting from staffs with interpersonal relationship and other corporations¡¦ experiences. 3. In the beginning, corporations and consulting firms should communicate completely with each other. Corporations should insist on their core value and culture and take it as the base of changing to get rid of missing their directions. 4. When facing resistance, corporations should solve problems positively and rely on the consulting firms¡¦ distinctive experiences and competencies of resolving conflicts. 5. Corporations usually find it difficult to evaluate consulting firms¡¦ performances; therefore they often spend more making a decision about consulting firms. But what is important for corporations is taking the results of evaluating consulting projects as the basis of improving to enhance the success of next project. Consequently, corporations should complete performance evaluating of consulting projects in detail; continue using a good model and correct failures and mistakes to promote the performance and value of consulting projects.

Thesis advisor: Mary Ann Glynn / Organizational research on individuals' identity focuses primarily on social identity, i.e., the self-concept they derive from their membership in a group, paying limited attention to relational identity or their self-definition in their role-relationships and its consequent implications for how individuals in these relationships get their work done. In this study, I address this gap by examining the nature of consultants' relational identity, i.e., their sense of self in their role-relationships with their clients and its implications for their conduct of work. Analysis of 50 in-depth interviews with consultants reveal that their relational identity can be understood by two dimensions: perceived sense of involvement with the relational other and perceived sense of influence over the relational other. Taken together, they explain four distinct ways in which consultants manifest their relational identity, namely: comprehensive, defined, associative, and impoverished relational identity. Further, I found that relational identity is associated with the degree of informality in the conduct of work between the two individuals in the role-relationship. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management. / Discipline: Organization Studies.

Les prestations de conseils se développent de façon ininterrompue depuis plusieurs décennies et la relation client-consultant apparait selon les travaux en sciences de gestion comme un facteur explicatif essentiel de leur performance. Cette revue de littérature montre que le thème du conseil reste peu développé, notamment en France, et qu’il nécessite un large développement dans les années à venir, notamment avec le changement des environnements et pratiques professionnels. Également, la plupart des travaux s’intéressent à la figure du consultant et assez peu à la relation de conseil. Ainsi nos travaux ont pour objet de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de ce qu’elle est et de sa dynamique.Nous proposons dans cette contribution d’utiliser les apports du courant de la sociologie pragmatique et de la sociologie de la traduction (ANT : Actor Network Theory) afin de définir le processus de relation de conseil. À partir d’une démarche qualitative, nous avons identifié un modèle de la relation de conseil, appelé LES (Listening, Support, Ethic) décrivant ses trois principales variables (nommées « attributs essentiels ») dans le processus d’opération de traduction de la relation de conseil.L’apport managérial est conséquent car il concerne les acteurs du conseil (conseil en stratégie, management, opérationnels et également les experts-comptables et auditeurs) et quasiment l’ensemble des entreprises de toutes tailles qui font appel ou peuvent solliciter un prestataire pour les accompagner dans leurs activités. / Consultancy services have been developing continuously for several decades and the client-consultant relationship appears according to the work in management sciences as an essential explanatory factor of their performance. This literature review shows that the topic of consulting remains underdeveloped, especially in France, and that it will require significant development in the coming years, including through the change in environments and professional practices. Furthermore, most of the studies focus on the consultant and rather little on the advisory relationship. Thus our work aims to contribute to a better understanding of what it is and its dynamics.In this research, we propose to use the contributions of the current of pragmatic sociology and translation sociology (ANT: Actor Network Theory) in order to define the process of the consultancy relationship. Through a qualitative approach, we identified a model of the consulting relationship, called LES (Listening, Support, Ethic) describing its three main attributes (called "essential attributes") in the process of translating the consulting relationship.The managerial contribution is significant because it concerns the actors of consulting (strategy consulting, management, operational and also chartered accountants and auditors) and almost all companies of all sizes that call upon or can solicit a service provider to support them in their activities.

Master of Science / Department of Architectural Engineering and Construction Science / Charles L. Burton / Most of our education in college is focused on producing students that will graduate and go on to work for someone else. Most classes taken in college are based on theory and technical subjects, which are very important to understand. Where the education falls short on is showing the opportunity of owning and running your own business. This report describes basic steps necessary to start up a consulting business. The report concentrates on the challenges involved, deciding on the right type of business ownership, location and equipment, and extensively on the business plan. Engineering is typically considered a technical field with little interaction with people, which is only half right. There is a lot of interaction between the engineer and the architect, client, contractor, and any other consultants for any particular project. This report will also talk about relationships and how to convey a professional image. The emphasis of this report is to describe basic steps to get started on owning your own company.

Qu'est-ce qu'une consultation efficace? Cette question est pertinente pour les praticiens qui tentent de porter un regard critique sur leurs interventions puisque peu d'études portant sur l'efficacité sont disponibles. La plupart des recherches présentent le point de vue des consultants. Cependant, malgré l'importance accordée à la satisfaction du client, peu d'études empiriques portent sur la perception du demandeur de service de l'efficacité de la consultation. Les résultats qui ressortent de l'étude apportent un éclairage complémentaire à la documentation actuelle sur l'efficacité de la consultation en proposant une série de facteurs et de critères définis venant du point de vue des clients que peuvent utiliser les consultants pour évaluer leur valeur ajoutée. Les consultants étant davantage informés des attentes de leur client, ils peuvent mieux s'adapter et ainsi augmenter leur chance de succès. Ces résultats ont aussi été mis en parallèle avec les résultats de recherche obtenus sur le même thème, mais à partir de la vision des consultants. L'étude révèle que de façon générale les consultants ainsi que les clients expliquent et évaluent l'efficacité de la consultation de façon similaire, mais parfois avec des vocables et des définitions qui diffèrent.

ERP¡]Enterprise Resource Planning¡^comes from manufacturing industry at first. When the times develope, it hasn¡¦t the only patent in manufacturing industry. It changes the basic IS for all kinds of industries.In the past, the related topics for the researches of the the academic circle surrounded with the topics of ERP selecting and CSF. There are very fewer related researches for how to understand and how to select ERP consultant and Consultant Company.Because the academic and the industry circle recently understand the importance of consultant, consultant for ERP implementing is the success and failure role. Base on these reasons, those cause this research to discuss the topic of ERP consultant and Consultant Company. The purpose of this research is arranging and analysising the crieteria of selecting consultant and Consutant Company by collecting records¡Bexpert interviews and questionnaire. The research uses case studey to help for the case enterprise to select the most suitable ERP consultant by ELECTRE I and provides the rational decision structure and basis for the companies that want to implement ERP. At last , the case has selected JDE from the three consultant companies of Oracle¡BJDE and Proyoung. The result of this research mainly provides feasibility evaluation model. When company considers which consultant and Consultant Company to select, he can refer this crieteria and importance from this research. The company also finds the most suitable Consultant Company by using the methods and procedures from this research.

The purpose of this study is to understand the following relationship: 1. The relationship between job stress and job performance. 2. Is consultant a moderator between job stress and job performance? 3. Is the personal demographic information as an obvious difference between job stress and job performance? The questionnaire survey was adopted for the study. Moreover, there are some statistic methods, such as conducting the poll through questionnaires, factor analysis, descriptive statistic, T test, ANOVA, correlation analysis, regression analysis and other relevant analysis, used in this research, After statistical analysis, the conclusions from this study are as following: 1. Job stress and job performance have statistically negative relationship. 2. There is no answer about if the consultant as a moderator between job stress and job performance. No one has the experience of seeking the consultant in the retrieve questionnaire materials. Therefore, it is unable to learn if the consultant as a moderator between job stress and job performance. 3. Marriage has an influential effect in the relationship between job stress and job performance. Other personal demographic information, such as gender, age, schooling record, seniority and current position within company, do not have significant difference in the relationship between job stress and job performance. One of the purpose of this thesis is to understand if the consultant as a moderator between job stress and job performance. Unfortunately, there is no information to prove it. Suggest backward researcher when questionnaire design can apply ink to paper or depth interview more.

This dissertation focuses on the positive and negative influences on wellness in the South African working environment, as well as three of the aspects that constitute today’s modern definition of wellness, namely: psychological, social, and physical wellness, as perceived by HR consultants in the target organisation. The results of the study determine what the main positive and negative influences on the wellness of HR Consultants were as perceived by the study’s participants. Nature of the Job, State of Mind, and Relationships are some of the most significant identified categories because they best reflect what is perceived to affect each aspect of HR Consultant wellness in the working environment. / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Human Resource Management / unrestricted

abstract: U.S. television is about earning profits, but European broadcasting has historically been governed as public service, indirectly or directly operated by the government. Substantial changes occurred in the 1990s. Privatization and the United Kingdom’s Independent Television franchise auction stimulated commercial developments throughout Europe. Even public service broadcasters lost their traditional characteristics, adopting routines making them almost indistinguishable from commercial competitors. Television remains the number one news source overall. Research shows news adheres to similar, recurring and predictable elements; an anchor team balances the broadcast and its various elements, following a formula of friendly personalities, visuals and sound bites. This study examined American news consultants’ role in the development of television news in the UK in the 1990s. American news consultants’ work abroad is important because they spread the U.S. model - the origin of today’s on-air news style – and changed television news on a global scale. Limited research has been conducted on the consultants’ European work and how they operated, largely because of proprietary material. This study was based on 2359 pages of archival material from Frank N. Magid Associates’ European archives. In addition, 24 interviews with Magid staff and UK journalists allowed for a comprehensive examination. Magid truly infiltrated UK television - from the headquarters of the BBC and ITN, to the regions. A major finding is the extent of Magid’s penetration with research services, storytelling and performance training. During the franchise auction, Magid worked with ITV clients in 11 of the 16 regions. This study examined how Magid played a role in the development of television news. It analyzed key concepts integrated into UK news and how those are similar or different from the U.S. The importance of good storytelling permeated the findings. Tell a story well – tailored to the culture, medium and viewers – and it will attract an audience. In turn, that attracts advertisers, making news profitable. Change theory guided an analysis of societal forces. Driving forces, such as privatization and technology, spurred on development of television news; restraining forces, such as fear of Americanization, slowed it down. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Journalism and Mass Communication 2018