{
  "title": "Collective decisions: which information stays out of the discussion?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/decisions-collectives-informations-absentes-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-01-22",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Bringing the right experts together does not guarantee that their information will be examined. Research encourages a distinction between having specialists present and actually using what they know.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Complex Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Fribourg",
    "region": "Fribourg",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Garold Stasser and William Titus (1985, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) showed experimentally that group discussions can favour information initially shared by members over information held by only one member."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Speaking up is another condition",
      "point": "Amy Edmondson (1999, Administrative Science Quarterly) observed an association between psychological safety and learning behaviour in work teams."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that a supportive climate is enough to produce better decisions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot promise",
      "point": "Information-sharing experiments use controlled tasks and information distributions that differ from some evolving industrial decisions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Fribourg",
      "point": "As an applied exercise within the programme, a Fribourg agri-food company operating in a bilingual industrial environment and connected to the university sector could examine a process decision involving production, quality and a scientific partner."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Titus",
      "year": "1985",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Edmondson",
      "year": "1999",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 396,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2026-01-22-en.jpg?v=4",
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/management-complexe/fribourg",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/fribourg",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}