{
  "title": "Does asking your manager for advice make you look less competent?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/demander-conseil-manager-competence-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-10-24",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Asking for advice can feel like a risk to your credibility. Research shows that this intuitive concern is not a general rule, without making every request a good strategy.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building an Effective Relationship with Your Manager",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Alison Wood Brooks, Francesca Gino and Maurice E."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Interpersonal risk does not disappear",
      "point": "Amy Edmondson (1999, Administrative Science Quarterly) establishes an association between team psychological safety and learning behaviours."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that employees simply need to consult their manager more often to strengthen their credibility."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot promise",
      "point": "Advice-seeking experiments do not reproduce the full history of an ongoing hierarchical relationship, with its availability constraints and evaluation responsibilities."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "Within SHR's « Construire une relation efficace avec son manager » programme, an exercise in Sion could focus on a non-urgent decision in hydropower, healthcare, winegrowing or Alpine tourism, without changing mandatory approval and safety procedures."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Schweitzer",
      "year": "2015",
      "source": "Management Science"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Edmondson",
      "year": "1999",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 420,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-Training-Building-An-Effective-Relationship-With-Your-Manager-Sion-demander-conseil-manager-competence-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/demander-conseil-manager-competence-en",
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  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/relation-avec-son-manager/sion",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}