{
  "title": "Managerial feedback: correcting the work without judging the person",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/feedback-managerial-corriger-le-travail-sans-juger-la-personne-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-12-30",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Giving more feedback does not guarantee better work. Research first invites us to examine where feedback directs attention.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Executive Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "In a meta-analysis, Avraham N."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Useful information is not a general judgement",
      "point": "John Hattie and Helen Timperley (2007, Review of Educational Research) distinguish feedback about the task, processes, self-regulation and the person."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that specific feedback is always effective, or that all personal encouragement should be eliminated."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot promise",
      "point": "The meta-analysis brings together varied tasks and interventions; it does not validate a single script for managerial conversations."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "In Lausanne, an exercise within the “Leadership d'excellence” programme could focus on a recurring deliverable: a medtech validation file, a project handover at a higher education institution, an event file in international sport or a product release at a scale-up in the Lake Geneva region."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "DeNisi",
      "year": "1996",
      "source": "Psychological Bulletin"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Timperley",
      "year": "2007",
      "source": "Review of Educational Research"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 434,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2025-12-30-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/feedback-managerial-corriger-le-travail-sans-juger-la-personne-en",
    "de": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/feedback-managerial-corriger-le-travail-sans-juger-la-personne-de",
    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/feedback-managerial-corriger-le-travail-sans-juger-la-personne-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/leadership-excellence/lausanne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/lausanne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}