{
  "title": "An anxious manager: seeking advice without surrendering judgement",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/anxiete-manager-demander-conseil-sans-abandonner-jugement-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-09-07",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Seeking advice is often taken as a sign of sound judgement. When anxiety drives the consultation, the quality of the answer still needs to be assessed.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Emotional Intelligence",
  "place": {
    "name": "Geneva",
    "region": "Genève",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Francesca Gino, Alison Wood Brooks and Maurice E."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Useful advice is not necessarily reassuring advice",
      "point": "Ilan Yaniv (2004, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes) examines how people incorporate advice into estimation tasks."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that an anxious manager should postpone any consultation or decide alone."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot promise",
      "point": "These studies rely on experimental tasks that do not reproduce the timescales, responsibilities or power relationships of professional decisions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Genève",
      "point": "In a private bank, an international organisation, a luxury watchmaking company or a commodity trading firm in Genève, SHR can propose an exercise involving non-urgent decisions, without altering mandatory approvals."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Schweitzer",
      "year": "2012",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Yaniv",
      "year": "2004",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    }
  ],
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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