{
  "title": "Time management: does a shared task need an owner?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-du-temps-une-tache-collective-a-t-elle-besoin-d-un-responsable-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-07-15",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A priority assigned to a team is not necessarily a priority someone takes forward. Research on collective effort invites us to distinguish cooperation from undifferentiated responsibility.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Time Management & Prioritisation",
  "place": {
    "name": "Neuchâtel",
    "region": "Neuchâtel",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Bibb Latané, Kipling Williams and Stephen Harkins (1979, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) observed, in experiments involving sound production, a reduction in individual effort when participants believed they were contributing to a collective rather than an individual output."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: connecting individual contribution to the outcome",
      "point": "Steven Karau and Kipling Williams (1993, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) synthesised research on social loafing and proposed a collective effort model."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that putting a name beside every priority is enough."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot establish",
      "point": "Experimental tasks reproduce neither the traceability requirements nor the interdependencies of precision industrial work."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Neuchâtel",
      "point": "In a Neuchâtel team working in microtechnology, watchmaking or precision microelectronics, an exercise within SHR’s « Gestion du temps & priorisation » programme could focus on a consistent category of cases, such as requests for technical clarification."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Harkins",
      "year": "1979",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Williams",
      "year": "1993",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 429,
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-du-temps-une-tache-collective-a-t-elle-besoin-d-un-responsable-en",
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  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/gestion-du-temps/neuchatel",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/neuchatel",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}