{
  "title": "Time management: who can actually decide what goes in their calendar?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-du-temps-qui-peut-decider-de-son-agenda-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-06-05",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Asking people to plan better assumes that they have some control over their schedules. Research suggests examining that decision-making latitude before prescribing a method.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Time Management & Prioritisation",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Robert Karasek (1979, Administrative Science Quarterly) examines job demands, decision latitude and psychological strain together."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The schedule as a collective arrangement",
      "point": "Leslie Perlow (1999, Administrative Science Quarterly) studies the chronic sense of having too little time among a group of product development engineers."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that everyone should simply be free to organise their own calendar."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot prescribe",
      "point": "Karasek's study rests on associations that cannot, on their own, establish the causal effect of greater control over one's schedule."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "Within SHR's “[Time Management & Prioritisation](/formation/gestion-du-temps/lausanne)” programme, one possible exercise in Lausanne is to test decision rights over schedules in a medtech team, a higher education institution, an international sports organisation or a scale-up in the Lake Geneva region."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Karasek",
      "year": "1979",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Perlow",
      "year": "1999",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 413,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2026-06-05-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-du-temps-qui-peut-decider-de-son-agenda-en",
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    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-du-temps-qui-peut-decider-de-son-agenda-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/gestion-du-temps/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."
}