Real World Business Problems .

This essay provides a thematic analysis on the acceptance of management consulting by different industries and the new external issues affecting organizational performance. It presents evidenced argumentation and unique thinking on why managers and leaders should take note of these concerns.

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Real World Business Problems
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Introduction
Management Professionals often opt for the coveted profession of management
consulting which is a profession that provides help to organizations and individuals in designing
and building their internal infrastructure based on their quality of social, environmental and
economic stature. This profession had developed when the individuals or the organizations failed
to understand their worth in business market and or have invested in projects that were poorly
sought after and calculated wrong (Bronnenmayer, Wirtz & Göttel, 2016). There are various
reasons why the consulting services or management consulting professionals have been accepted
by the industry to provide their services. On the basis of two contradictory ideas the following
essay would produce the thematic analysis on the topic two find out the common theme between
the two contradictory ideas (Farja, Gimmon & Greenberg, 2018). Then the new and unstructured
external issues that impinge on the organizational performances would be identified and then the
evidenced argumentation based on the common themes would be presented. The essay would
then focus on the concerns and why managers and leaders should abide by the importance of
these concerns. The arguments would be directly drawn from these concerns followed by the
structured insights and reflections on the topic mentioned above.
Thematic Analysis
While performing qualitative researches, one of the most common forms of research is
the thematic analysis which focuses on the identification of patterns within a cluster of data. This
is required for any kind of research since these data sets form the important description of the
phenomenon, which in this case is the reason to find out the reason behind the acceptance of
management consultancies by different industries (Harris, Sorensen & Yaeger, 2018). Following
would be a presentation of the contradictory ideas that has been presented by two different

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individuals on the same prospect of the acceptance of the management consultancies in the
industry. Where one perspective is focusing on the how unethical and unnecessary is the use of
management consultancies and the other perspective represents the utility of the consulting firms
and the ways by which they have been shaping up different organizations and constructing the
careers of various individuals (Stanske, Tomenendal & Dörrenbächer, 2017). Thus, the next part
of the essay will focus on the organizational performances in the latest business world and would
identify the new and unstructured external issues that have been affecting negatively or
positively on the performances of various organizations.
New and unstructured external issues that impinge on organizational performance
There are various reasons that affect the organizational performance in many ways. These
factors may affect organizational performances in a positive way or a negative way. The social
and economic climate that the business world resides in right now is based upon various factors
affecting the performances of the organizations (Tams, Gustafsson & Chudzikowski, 2016). The
most essential factors that affect these performances of the organization would be described in
this part with the help of the external issues like political, social, economic and technological. It
is an irony that these factors have the ability to make an organization be at their topmost level of
services (Sturdy & O’Mahoney, 2018). In the same way these external characteristics of an
organization determine the relation of the organization to the external environment in a much
broader sense. It is possible that the external issues may include legal issues as well that has the
potential to affect the performance in an organization. The internal factors that affect the
organizational performances can enhance the external factors that impinge on the organizational
performance as well.
Evidenced argumentation

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There are many evidences that can be put forward in the form for this essay that would
established the fact that organizations often fall short of providing the services are the products
to the customers that they have promised (Mühlhaus, & Bouwmeester, 2016). Achieving
customer loyalty is the first and foremost priority for any organization.
This is why customer satisfaction and service quality are the leading zones of services
that an organization should look about. However this entirely depends upon the managers
making decisions and handling project within an organization. It is due to the factors of lack of
understanding in these managerial bodies about the market and the corresponding operational
issues within the organization that has caused the need of these consultancies to grow
(Greenwood et al., 2015). The consultancies help in identifying the gaps in the decision making
or the project management methodologies that the organization has been implementing without
for the knowledge about the market or the customer requirements.
For example, the organization of nestle had been utilizing various ingredients within their
products that were mostly used for the customers to consume. The organization could not make
out the toxicity of these ingredients that has been used within the consumer food products and
due to this the company has got in a lot of trouble regarding their products. This can be
recognized as the real world business problems with the evidence presented in the form of the
organization of nestle where they had fallen short of proper recognition of the item or ingredients
used in their products which could have been harmful for their customers when consumed.
Common themes on why managers and leaders should take note of these concerns
One of the major reasons that the companies are falling short of fulfilling the customer
satisfaction and providing service quality is the lack of understanding of the market and the

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requirements of the customers (Rozdolskaya, Ledovskaya & Bolotova, 2018). When an
organization provides good service to the customer it can be implied that it is a result of the
organized corporate culture and this can also be considered as the social culture within the
organization in general.
It can also be said that the values of the activities within the organization has a
generalized trend and this has been set with the utilization of rules and regulation which
standards that concretize the direction of every operational activity. This is entirely the
responsibility of the managers handling the projects as well as the operations within the
organization and this is been inferred due to various studies and research is conducted over the
feedbacks taken from customers. They had been thoroughly asked about their insights about the
service quality of the companies they have been receiving services from and based on that the
good service quality as well as the perception of a customer is utilized for measuring the services
of any organization (Muzio, Kipping & Kirkpatrick, 2016). Due to this research it could be seen
that that have been many organizations that were falling short of providing services to the
customers or producing on manufacturing products that were not up to the mark to the
customer’s choice. Based on internal and external factors that affect the corporate culture or the
operations of an organization a manager should make a plan or device the research throughout
the market and manage their products and projects according to the outcome of these results
(Back, Parboteeah & Nam, 2014). Therefore the fact that these consultancies are helping the
organization in somewhat way helping the managers and if an organization does not want the
involvement of any consultancy out of spite then it is only the responsibility of the managers to
identify the gaps in operations or researchers that the organization has been conducting and

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should mend their ways or innovate new ways to make sure that the consultancies does not need
to be contacted.
Arguments that are directly drawn from these connections
For any organization or an individual making a consulting agency order management
consultant for form specified project or provide an expert advice can work as a benefit for the
organization. As going by the second speaker it can be said that a consultant on contractual basis
has the ability to deliver the things that the organization has been missing out so far within a
given time (Brussalis & Pallitto, 2017). However, it also has some disadvantages as the
consulting agency order management consultant that has been providing expert advisors over the
things that the organization has so far been missing out can also be not a fruitful as it has been
expected and their mind me chances that the gaps are still there. The reason why this kind of
methods of curd is argumentative and from the connections that are mentioned above they can be
listed as follows:
 Perspective of the consulting agency: It can offer that a consulting agency that
has been introducing the abilities and skills for further benefit of the operations or
product manufacturing or providing services to customer maybe absolutely out of
expertise (Mosonyi & Gond, 2016). For enhancing the productivity it is very
effective that the consultant suggest at setup of a project on training that can
enhance productivity at a much higher level within a specified time. However, it
is also been found that engaging in this one time activity diminishes the
concentration of the employees over the core business.
 Saving the costs: At beginning of a new project, it is very economically prudent
that an organization is engaging a consultant for its services. This can also engage

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the undertaking of changing the business methods or implying marketing
strategies. This cuts the time for training and ensures that expensive pitfalls are
avoided but there is no time to maintain these consultants like the regular
employees and payroll and therefore the organization could see if both on the
payroll taxes as well as the benefits (Lăzăroiu, 2015). Not having this consultants
will also make an organization see on the overhead and management cost that has
been so far associated with employee administration.
Unique thinking
Since a consulting agency or a management consultant is not part of the organization
right from the beginning there can be situations where these consultants do not have the
knowledge of the in house procedures for the organization. It can also occur that the procedures
that the consulting agency order management consultant is suggesting the management body of
the organization is creating award conflict and the operation management of the entire
organization is affected, including the workflow of the regular employees (Larsson, 2018).
Independent contractors are all the beyond the control of a management consultant and they can
only be guided out through the contract that have been made between them and the organization.
Therefore, there are several challenges if an organization wants to implement the use of a
management consultant.
However, thinking the other way, where the organizations can benefit from hiring a
consultant for the growth of the business is also numerous in numbers. First and foremost the
organization learnt how to take advantage of the new skills that had been providing gap in the
researchers about the market by the organization itself. The market dynamics becomes extensive
and the knowledge about them is exponentially larger than what the organization has failed to do.

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The employees are benefited as well since they realize how to effortlessly acknowledge and
achieve the short term goals. Therefore merging both the ideas about the advantages and
disadvantages of hiring a consulting agency or a management consultant it can be said that the
unique idea of researching about the consultant organization is also what any organization can
implement before hiring a consultant.
Structured insights and reflection
Since I have heard both the versions about the acceptance of an industry in context of
Management consultants I believe that any organization should first and foremost research about
implementing any kind of changes within the industry. I believe that hiring in outside
organization to manage the operations of another organization is also something that should not
be kept out of research because realizing the advantages and disadvantages both at the same time
would make sure that have the new change in the organization should be introduced. Damage
control techniques and risk management is what I believe that should be thought about before
accepting any consultant for a given organization.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it can be said that the management professionals that has the potential to
help any other organization or individual in finding the gaps in the internal infrastructure based
on their social, environmental and economic skills has both its benefits and disadvantages and
before implementing them into the operational system of any organization all the aspects should
be kept in mind. Certainly there are many pros and cons of the accepted idea that has been put
forward through thematic analysis and understanding of the unstructured external issues that
affect organizational performances, and before implementing the services it should be well

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thought about. The insides that have been presented through the evidenced argumentation and
the reasons why managers and leaders should also take note of this concern are thoroughly
mentioned above in the essay. Based on this argument action directly drawn from the
connections and the unique thinking and personal reflection it can be said that the involvement of
the management consulting is also another change in the business process and should always be
well thought about the risks and damage it can bring about within the organization, and only then
it should be implemented.

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