A Study on Consultant’s Social Value, Learning, Leadership Type Influence on Consulting Flow and Performance

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate consultants in ongoing consulting projects for smaller enterprises to implement an empirical study on the degree of influence of consultant value, consultant learning and consultant leadership type on consulting performance, which have not been mentioned in preceding study. The surveyed were consultants who had provided consulting service to smaller enterprises. For the study, a total of 223 sets of questionnaires were collected but 18 poorly-answered sets were excluded to utilize 205 sets for the study research. As a summary of the results, the social responsibility had a significant effect on consulting Flow whereas social support did not. learning motivation, learning intention and transformational/transactional/servant leadership on consulting Flow found that all of the variables had a significant effect on consulting Flow. In addition to that, social responsibility, support and learning motivation, learning intention and transformational/transactional/servant leadership on consulting satisfaction found that all of the variables significantly affected consulting satisfaction.