{
  "title": "Does a leader's mood influence how the team works?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/humeur-du-responsable-et-performance-equipe-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-11-12",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Mood at work is not solely an individual matter. Its spread through a team can change cooperation without guaranteeing better performance.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Team Performance",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Sigal G."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The leader's mood as a collective signal",
      "point": "Thomas Sy, Stéphane Côté and Richard Saavedra (2005, Journal of Applied Psychology) experimentally manipulated leaders' moods before a group task."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "Concluding that a good leader must always appear cheerful would go too far."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the experiments leave unresolved",
      "point": "These experiments allow causal effects to be studied in bounded situations, but they do not establish whether those effects persist in ongoing teams."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "As part of SHR's « Performance d'équipe » programme, a team based in Sion could track its work handovers for two weeks: an operational handover in hydropower, a healthcare handover, instructions passed between viticulture workers or coordination of an alpine tourism service."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Barsade",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Saavedra",
      "year": "2005",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 388,
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/performance-equipe/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."
}