{
  "title": "Team hierarchy: coordinating without creating blind spots",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/hierarchie-equipe-coordonner-sans-aveugler-a-berne-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-08-15",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Hierarchy can facilitate collective action without improving every decision. The question is what it speeds up, and what it prevents from reaching decision-makers.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Team Performance",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Cameron Anderson and Courtney Brown (2010, Research in Organizational Behavior) examine the functions and dysfunctions of hierarchies in groups."
    },
    {
      "heading": "When coordination and risk increase together",
      "point": "Eric Anicich, Roderick Swaab and Adam Galinsky (2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) investigate hierarchical cultural values, drawing notably on Himalayan expeditions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "Inferring that hierarchy should be abolished would be as excessive as concluding that it improves performance."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not allow us to transfer",
      "point": "A literature review is not a trial comparing two organisational charts, and expedition data do not demonstrate that changing hierarchy would produce the same effects in a department in Berne."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "Within SHR's « Performance d'équipe » programme, one possible test in Berne is to retain the designated decision-maker while requesting a reasoned objection from someone with relevant expertise before each important operational decision."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Brown",
      "year": "2010",
      "source": "Research in Organizational Behavior"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Galinsky",
      "year": "2015",
      "source": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 410,
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/performance-equipe/berne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/berne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}