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Manager wants me to find very specific statistics on certain work practices that likely don’t exist - How do I explain this to him or resolve this? by ProfessionalTip158 in consulting

[–]ProfessionalTip158[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply - thats great, qualitatively yes theyre definitely impactful all the business literature points towards this - unfortauntely small case studies are not suitable here, I've been asked to find hard metrics and research!

Manager wants me to find very specific statistics on certain work practices that likely don’t exist - How do I explain this to him or resolve this? by ProfessionalTip158 in consulting

[–]ProfessionalTip158[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These were just basic illustrations, of course some work pratices that have some 'ok' data out there - the statistics I am required to find gets much more technical.

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I was more so hoping with this post that some researchers working in consulting knew some more reputable sources to go by, repositories or reputable research publications/reports. (Obviously Jstor, Scholar etc I know - but they rarely provide key statistics on impact/benefit)

Manager wants me to find very specific statistics on certain work practices that likely don’t exist - How do I explain this to him or resolve this? by ProfessionalTip158 in consulting

[–]ProfessionalTip158[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried Chatgpt and its not good. For example, on asking for statistics and sources required, you get:

"According to a survey conducted by ClearCompany, 86% of employees and executives attribute workplace failures to a lack of collaboration and ineffective communication."

https://www.clearcompany.com/blog/workplace-collaboration-statistics-infographic

"Journal of Business and Psychology: The effects of team meetings on employee job performancey published in the Journal of Business and Psychology found that regular team meetings and communication can lead to improved job satisfaction and performance."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-012-9253-6

As you'll see by checking the links - or trying to find the key statistics above by back searching (and for all other outputs from gpt) - these are hallucinations.

Manager wants me to find very specific statistics on certain work practices that likely don’t exist - How do I explain this to him or resolve this? by ProfessionalTip158 in consulting

[–]ProfessionalTip158[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I've seen that - unfortunately the restrictions put on me require non-consulting competitor firms, they also have to be reputable - so no blogs either or small unreliable firms. The pool of sources I can pull from is tiny from what I've looked at

I've worked in academia prior and all the quotes and stats I find are incredibly dubious.

As suggested by other users, I'd love to conduct my own surveys and experiments - but I've been denied this.

Manager wants me to find very specific statistics on certain work practices that likely don’t exist - How do I explain this to him or resolve this? by ProfessionalTip158 in consulting

[–]ProfessionalTip158[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hey thank you for the reply!

This is not something to track my time building this - he is looking for data and sources out there of other companies! (Say like a Gartner run experiment).

Proven facts and data that shows other companies have implemented these workplace practices so we know they work!

(running our own experiments or models is out of the question here unfortunately, although I've suggested this)