{
  "title": "Do disagreements about work improve team performance?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/desaccords-sur-le-travail-favorisent-ils-la-performance-equipe-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-02-25",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Encouraging dissent seems preferable to superficial consensus. Yet research does not establish conflict as a performance lever in its own right.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Team Performance",
  "place": {
    "name": "Basel",
    "region": "Bâle-Ville",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Karen A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A synthesis less favourable to conflict",
      "point": "Carsten K."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that a high-performing team should avoid all disagreement; that would confuse the absence of conflict with decision quality."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limits of the evidence and current practice",
      "point": "These studies do not constitute a trial showing that deliberately increasing or reducing conflict improves performance."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Basel",
      "point": "As part of SHR's « Performance d'équipe » programme, a proposed exercise in Basel is to track, over two weeks, objections raised during decisions involving pharma, life sciences, Rhine logistics and international R&D."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Jehn",
      "year": "1995",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Weingart",
      "year": "2003",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 428,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2026-02-25-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "de": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/desaccords-sur-le-travail-favorisent-ils-la-performance-equipe-de",
    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/desaccords-sur-le-travail-favorisent-ils-la-performance-equipe-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/performance-equipe/bale",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/bale",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}