What BCG, McKinsey revealed to the consulting inquiry
Boston Consulting Group sacked four personnel from its business in Australia and New Zealand after receiving 10 formal complaints about their behaviour during the past five years.
The firm detailed the misconduct during its appearance before the Senate committee examining consultants last month, after initially refusing to detail internal complaints in response to questions on notice.
Boston Consulting Group managing director and senior partner Anna Green at a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the management and assurance of integrity by consulting services. Alex Ellinghausen
The committee also heard how BCG helps staff manage their workloads, while McKinsey said the PwC tax leaks scandal had been a “serious breach of trust in the consulting services industry in Australia”.
“[We] have had 10 formal complaints over the past five years at BCG,” Anna Green, a managing director and senior partner at the firm, told the inquiry committee on September 26.
“We do not use NDAs [non-disclosure agreements] with regard to any of these things. We explicitly will never and do not use NDAs to silence any victim of harassment.”
Mrs Green then added that “the 10 formal complaints have resulted in four terminations”. The firm has 55 managing directors and partners and about 650 staff.
The comments were made after questions from Labor senator Deborah O’Neill. Rival strategy firm McKinsey has provided details about its misconduct complaints in response to questions on notice from the committee after earlier claiming to have a bullying- and harassment-free workplace.
BCG was also accused during the hearing of relying on “cosy relationships” with senior bureaucrats to secure a contract extension that was found to have breached
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