The I/O consultant : advice and insights for building a successful career

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Title:

The I/O consultant : advice and insights for building a successful career

Author:

Hedge, Jerry W.

ISBN:

9781433803390

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2008.

Physical Description:

xxi, 392 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

I. Choosing a Consultant Career Path -- Fundamentals of Consulting -- Ch. 1. Overview of I/O Consulting -- Ch. 2. Preparing Yourself in Graduate School -- Ch. 3. Body of Knowledge for Consultants -- Ch. 4. Services Consultants Provide -- Consultant Perspectives -- Ch. 5. Managing Your Consulting Career / Mark J. Schmit -- Ch. 6. The Role of the Internal Consultant: How Internal Consultants Can Promote Successful Change / Jeff Schippmann and Dee Newson -- Ch. 7. Public- and Private-Sector Consulting / Gary W. Carter -- Ch. 8. Consulting for Profit and Nonprofit Organizations / Gordon Curphy -- Ch. 9. I/O Consulting in the Department of Defense / Janice H. Laurence -- Ch. 10. Combining an Academic and Consulting Career / Sheldon Zedeck and Irwin L. Goldstein -- II. Starting and Promoting a Consulting Business -- Fundamentals of Consulting -- Ch. 11. Starting a Consulting Business -- Ch. 12. Defining Your Business and Developing a Company Identity -- Ch. 13. Marketing Your Consulting Services -- Ch. 14. Selling Your Consulting Services -- Consultant Perspectives -- Ch. 15. Consulting and the Entrepreneurial Mind-Set: Lessons Learned / Scott I. Tannenbaum -- Ch. 16. Working on Your Own Versus With a Larger Organization / Mitchell Lee Marks -- Ch. 17. Why Join a Consulting Firm When You Can Start Your Own? / Rick Jacobs and Janet Echemendia -- Ch. 18. The Role of Strategic Planning / A. Catherine Higgs and Ellen M. Papper -- Ch. 19. Points of Entry: Where to Target Your Consulting Efforts in Client Organizations / David B. Peterson -- Ch. 20. The Art and the Science of Consulting / Frank Landy -- III. Maintaining the Business -- Fundamentals of Consulting -- Ch. 21. Networking -- Ch. 22. Building and Maintaining Client Relationships -- Ch. 23. Recruiting and Selecting for Consulting Organizations -- Ch. 24. Career and Performance Management With Consultants -- Consultant Perspectives -- Ch. 25. Establishing Successful Client Relationships / Allan H. Church and Janine Waclawski -- Ch. 26. The Keys to Successful Project Management / P. Richard Jeanneret -- Ch. 27. Maintaining Your Edge as a Consultant and as an Organization / Vicki V. Vandaveer -- Ch. 28. Handling Ethical Matters / Deirdre J. Knapp -- Ch. 29. The Consultant as Mentor / Erich P. Prien and Kristin O. Prien -- Ch. 30. The Importance of Professional Affiliations and Service to the Professional Society / Nancy T. Tippins -- IV. Growing the Business -- Fundamentals of Consulting -- Ch. 31. Contemplating Growth -- Ch. 32. What Type of Growth Is Right for Your Business? -- Ch. 33. What if You Don't Want to Grow? Keeping Things Small -- Consultant Perspectives -- Ch. 34. Protecting Intellectual Property / James C. Sharf -- Ch. 35. Going Global or Staying Local / Cristina G. Banks -- Ch. 36. Rules of Thumb for International Consultants / William H. Mobley -- Ch. 37. Changing to Consulting in Midcareer / Kenneth Pearlman -- Ch. 38. Establishing a University-Based Consulting Practice / Kurt Kraiger and Richard B. (Rick) Simpson -- Ch. 39. Trends in Business Consulting / Mark S. Teachout and David George Vequist IV -- V. Conclusion -- Ch. 40. Review and Final Thoughts.

Subject Term:

Business consultants.

Consultants.

Consulting firms -- Management.

New business enterprises -- Management.

Psychology, Industrial.

Genre:

Ebook

Added Author:

Hedge, Jerry W.

Borman, Walter C.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip085/2007047615.html

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Summary

This innovative volume offers basic guidance on the fundamentals of consulting with authoritative essays by leaders in the field.

Consulting is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States. This innovative volume offers basic guidance on the fundamentals of consulting with authoritative essays by leaders in the field. The editors and their colleagues guide their readers through a career continuum, beginning with learning about potential employers to creating and maintaining a business and watching it grow and thrive.

In chapters that combine a strong grounding in contemporary I/O research with personal accounts of their career journeys and day-to-day activities, the contributors bring the basic principles conveyed by Hedge and Borman to life. Readers hear of the extraordinary breadth of consulting experiences--in the private and public sectors, the military, and academia. The authors consider such topics as strategic planning, points of entry into the field, ethics and networking, and the advantages and disadvantages of joining a large firm versus starting up one's own consulting practice.