{
  "title": "High-quality disagreement, the forgotten leadership skill",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/le-desaccord-de-qualite-competence-oubliee-du-leadership-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-09-13",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "What research does — and does not — establish about the value of disagreement in senior teams.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Executive Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Geneva",
    "region": "Genève",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Amy Edmondson (1999, Administrative Science Quarterly) defined psychological safety as the shared belief that interpersonal risk — voicing a doubt, flagging an error, stating a contrary view — will not be implicitly punished."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The distinction usually overlooked",
      "point": "Research on team conflict has long separated task conflict (about the content of a decision) from relationship conflict (about people)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Why the nuance matters for an executive committee",
      "point": "Saying 'we need more debate' is an injunction with no operative value."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What is a skill, and therefore trainable",
      "point": "Voicing high-quality disagreement is a technical move: separating observation from interpretation, naming the issue rather than the person, offering an alternative rather than an objection alone."
    },
    {
      "heading": "One practical, modest, testable implication",
      "point": "Before the arbitration, explicitly ask for the strongest counter-argument — not 'does anyone disagree?', but 'what is the best case against this option?'."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Edmondson",
      "year": "1999",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Dreu and Weingart",
      "year": "2003",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Yip and Fisher",
      "year": "2022",
      "source": "Academy of Management Annals"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 413,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2026-09-13-en.jpg?v=4",
  "translations": {
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/le-desaccord-de-qualite-competence-oubliee-du-leadership-en",
    "de": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/le-desaccord-de-qualite-competence-oubliee-du-leadership-de"
  },
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    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/geneve",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}