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Mba Critical Inquiry into Consultancy_2010
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2. Difficulty in access to Public Secrets: Block (1981:268) believes, ‘People do tell truth in an organization, however, they say in private’. Since honest conversation remains in private, it is a challenge for consultants to get access to the truth. A consultant can learn and gain insight by use of hermeneutics (Aristotle, 1938), an interpretation theory.
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4. De Haan(2006:51) says consultancy is not about being an expert but about being different. Ruud(2010:Lecture4) ‘Organizations work because they do not work’. (Foucault, 1983:170) supports, problem exists in minds of people, characterized by ‘problematization of parrhesia’. This occurs due to ‘perception of a truth as a problem’. This implies, in analysing problems consultants, create them in the first place (Ruud, 2010:Lecture3).
5. Solutions are then suggested to the problems constructed beforehand. At times, consultancy appears to construct problems and then offering real solutions, this is the problem of perception.
7. Pre-judgement of some belief is called prejudice. Father of Enlightenment,(Descartes,1637) authored the Cartesian Theory of Fallacies, stating that at any given time a statement can be both true and false simultaneously because of its contradictory nature. The statement is true in its fallacy, implies, ‘truth is always related to doubt’. So, a consultant must avoid ‘prejudice’ in truth-finding in paradox-situation.
8. A consultant is expected to make use of ironical situation in a positive manner. (De Haan, 2006:42) views, ‘irony, an appropriate form of communication in a dynamic situation’, that helps to unfreeze ideas and invites thought-movement from one perspective to the other’, as Kurt Lewin model (1951) sugests ‘unfreeze-change-refreeze’.