{
  "title": "Your manager's mood: is it a judgement on your work?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/humeur-du-manager-ne-pas-la-confondre-avec-un-jugement-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-11-21",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A manager's mood can spread through a team. That does not make it a reliable assessment of the work performed.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building an Effective Relationship with Your Manager",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Thomas Sy, Stéphane Côté and Richard Saavedra (2005, Journal of Applied Psychology) demonstrated experimentally that a leader's mood could influence group members' moods and the group's collective affective tone."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Transmission that goes beyond words",
      "point": "Sigal G."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that the answer is simply to wait until the manager is in a good mood before raising an important issue."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What these experiments cannot establish",
      "point": "These experiments concern group interactions in bounded situations, rather than the full course of an ongoing reporting relationship."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "In Sion, within a team working in hydropower, healthcare, viticulture or Alpine tourism, the SHR programme “Building an effective relationship with your manager” can propose a two-week trial."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Saavedra",
      "year": "2005",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Barsade",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 412,
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/humeur-du-manager-ne-pas-la-confondre-avec-un-jugement-en",
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/relation-avec-son-manager/sion",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}