{
  "title": "Time management: simplify before adding another procedure?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-du-temps-simplifier-avant-d-ajouter-une-procedure-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2024-11-19",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "To save time, organisations readily add a tool or a rule. Research suggests also examining what could be removed from the process.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Time Management & Prioritisation",
  "place": {
    "name": "Fribourg",
    "region": "Fribourg",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Gabrielle Adams, Benjamin Converse, Andrew Hales and Leidy Klotz (2021, Nature) show across a series of experiments that participants often overlook subtractive changes in favour of additive ones."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Why existing arrangements remain the reference point",
      "point": "William Samuelson and Richard Zeckhauser (1988, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty) document status quo bias: presenting an option as the existing situation can favour its retention."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "It would be too quick to conclude that a shorter procedure is necessarily better."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What these findings cannot promise",
      "point": "These studies do not directly measure the time savings from simplification in organisations in Fribourg."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Fribourg",
      "point": "Within SHR — Swiss Human Resources’ “[Time Management & Prioritisation](/formation-gestion-du-temps-fribourg)” programme, an exercise applicable in Fribourg would involve selecting a recurring administrative workflow in a food-processing company, a bilingual industrial business or a university service."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Klotz",
      "year": "2021",
      "source": "Nature"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Zeckhauser",
      "year": "1988",
      "source": "Journal of Risk and Uncertainty"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 406,
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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