{
  "title": "Canton of Neuchâtel — Managing through influence: how can rare expertise be passed on without making the expert indispensable?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/neuchatel-manager-par-influence-transmettre-savoir-faire-rare-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2024-06-17",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Securing a specialist’s agreement to share knowledge does not make a team autonomous. Research invites managers to examine the conditions that enable colleagues to learn.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Influence Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Neuchâtel",
    "region": "Neuchâtel",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Gabriel Szulanski (1996, Strategic Management Journal) examines barriers to transferring best practices within firms."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: learning builds on existing knowledge",
      "point": "Wesley M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that the expert simply needs to explain more clearly or write another procedure."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not allow us to promise",
      "point": "These studies do not demonstrate that a particular knowledge-transfer arrangement would retain specialists in Neuchâtel or reduce production defects."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Neuchâtel",
      "point": "In a hypothetical microtechnology workshop in Neuchâtel, a manager could agree with a specialist in a particular equipment adjustment, the specialist’s line manager and a colleague on a knowledge-transfer trial involving one clearly bounded operation, outside production or under quality supervision."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Szulanski",
      "year": "1996",
      "source": "Strategic Management Journal"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Levinthal",
      "year": "1990",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 447,
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}