Management Consulting July 2025
~1.3m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~100
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.3m questions answered from ~100 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 2025.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Management Consulting
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
44%
Oceania
23%
Europe
16%
Asia
15%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
58%
Female
42%
Non-Binary
0.21%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
70% of Management Consulting employees are engaged
This is in the top 48% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 18 and is in the top 41% compared with other industries.
How does Management Consulting compare?
People in Management Consulting were much more positive than average regarding Action, Voice, and Diversity.
On the lower side, people in Management Consulting had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity.
People working in Management Consulting are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Management Consulting are less engaged than Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Real Estate, Biotechnology, and Accounting.
The highest scoring question for Management Consulting had 92% of people agreeing that they understand how their work contributes to %[Company]%'s mission (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Management Consulting were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'I believe that my total compensation is fair, relative to similar roles at %[Company]%' with 22% of people disagreeing (+1% above average).
Which questions matter the most?
Different things are important to different cultures. If you want to make more of your people engaged then you need to know what is important your people. These questions are most important to keeping people engaged in Management Consulting organizations.
1 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
3 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 21% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+1% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 11% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+1% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
2%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
17%
2 to less than 4 years
32%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
12%