{
  "title": "Diversity of expertise: an advantage for team performance?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/diversite-des-expertises-et-performance-equipe-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-11-27",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Bringing different disciplines together seems an obvious way to solve complex problems. Research nevertheless invites a distinction between the expertise available and its actual use.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Team Performance",
  "place": {
    "name": "Neuchâtel",
    "region": "Neuchâtel",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Sujin K."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: working through differences, not just assembling them",
      "point": "Daan van Knippenberg, Carsten K."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that adding another discipline to the table is enough to improve a decision."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot promise",
      "point": "An average association from a meta-analysis does not demonstrate that changing composition will produce the same effect in a particular team."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Neuchâtel",
      "point": "Within SHR's “Team Performance” programme, an exercise suitable for a Neuchâtel team in microtechnology, watchmaking or precision microelectronics is to document trade-offs when analysing non-conformities."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Horwitz",
      "year": "2007",
      "source": "Journal of Management"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Homan",
      "year": "2004",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 389,
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    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/neuchatel",
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}