Management consultancy and its effects on human resources management: Field research

Nowadays, most of the businesses mainly use management consulting services because of the reasons like global communication, economical, technological, social, political, etc., which have developed rapidly all over the world. In our country, the management consultancy service has started to be attractive and used in order to ensure the desired production and quality because of the transition to the full competition system in the economy and the opening up of businesses to the world and cooperation with the other countries. Therefore, the worldwide consulting firms have started to open branches or to establish partnerships in Turkey. Along with the economical and industrial conditions that have developed over time, local consulting firms have started to become widespread in the country. In spite of all these developments, in our country where most of the industry is formed by small and medium-sized businesses, most managers still have no knowledge about the contents of the consultancy services and the needs in what circumstances and are reluctant. This study was conducted in order to promote, identify and disseminate the management consultancy service, and to show the positive effect on the management of human resources. The survey included five enterprises with different cities, different sectors and different employee numbers, and six consultants, all of them are YDD members with CMC certification. As a result of the semi-formal interview and e-mail contributions, information on the reasons for the consulting service and the most used model, the priority order of the consultancy for human resources management, the changes it has made, and the functions has affected most are collected. Interpretation of the collected answers revealed that the consulting service was only approached as a last-minute solution and that the consultancy service on the subject of human resources was not shown the necessary interest. For the benefit of the enterprises; the introduction and dissemination of management consulting services, the intensification of consultancy work on human resources with strategic pre-emptive management, and the involvement of the department management in strategy work with the business management should be made rapidly applicable.