In this study, an empirical study was implemented to find if consultant competency plays a mediating role on consulting performance in the effect relationship between consulting performance and organization performance and the moderating effect of CEO...
In this study, an empirical study was implemented to find if consultant competency plays a mediating role on consulting performance in the effect relationship between consulting performance and organization performance and the moderating effect of CEO characteristics and organization support.
Survey targets are companies of Seoul, Gyeonggi province and Incheon areas where the consulting was previously implemented were previously, 550 answer sheets were collected and for 511 answer sheets except for 39 sheets which are not possible for statistical analysis, the empirical analysis was conducted by using SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 20.0 statistical programs.
The major results for this study are as follows.
First, in the validity analysis of study variables questions, the risk management of CEO characteristics and business management performance variables of consultant performance which do not meet the criteria of factor loading 0.5 were excluded. The effect relationship by each factor was confirmed by classifying into independent variables of consultant competency’s common competency, job competency and management competency, parametric variables of consulting performance’s consulting completeness and work efficiency performance, control variables of patience tendency for ambiguity and supervisor’s support in organizational support, peer support and organizational support dependent variables of organizational performance’s financial performance and non-financial performance as key variables applied in this study.
Second, it was analyzed that the consultant competency gives a partially (+) significant effect on the consulting performance. Especially, it was observed that the higher management performance of consultant gives much higher positive impact on the consulting performance.
Third, it was seen that the consultant competency gives a partially positive effect(+) on the consulting performance. That is, it was seen that the consultant competency gives a positive effect(+) on the financial performance and non-financial performance.
Fourth, while it was seen that the consulting performance gives a positive(+) significant effect on the organizational performance, this means that a higher consulting performance gives much more positive effect on the organizational performance.
Fifth, it was seen that the consulting performance gives an optimistic positive mediating effect in the effect relationship between consultant competency and organizational performance.
Lastly, while CEO characteristics and organization support showed partial moderating effect in the relationship between consultant performance and organizational performance, it was seen that the achievement motivation of CEO’s characteristics and supervisor’s support in the organizational support play a moderating role. Therefore, it looks necessary to primarily consider the future study which can represents the moderating effect of CEO characteristics and organization support.
The main implications for this study First, can be to contribute to the establishment of the theory as an empirical study for the consultant competency, consulting performance and organizational performance where the advance research is insufficient. Second, it can provide the research opportunity for a new leading variable in the relationship study between consultant competency and organizational performance. Third, as the hypothesis verification of control variables for CEO’s characteristics were not done together with the study reaffirming the importance of the parametric variables, it provides the fact that more focus points are required from the selection of variables to the survey creation in building the future research model.
Lastly, Lastly, in subsequent studies, the subdivided research will have to be done according to consultant competency, consulting performance, CEO competency and behavior characteristics, organizational support, consulting type, etc.