{
  "title": "Team performance: should ideas be generated before they are discussed?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/performance-equipe-produire-des-idees-avant-de-les-discuter-a-berne-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-06-27",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Bringing a team together to find solutions seems natural. Research on brainstorming nevertheless suggests separating idea generation from discussion.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Team Performance",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Brian Mullen, Craig Johnson and Eduardo Salas (1991, Basic and Applied Social Psychology) synthesised research comparing interactive brainstorming with so-called nominal groups, whose members generate ideas separately before these are pooled."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: waiting to speak also blocks production",
      "point": "Michael Diehl and Wolfgang Stroebe (1987, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) experimentally investigated several explanations for this productivity loss."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that collective discussion should be removed from the search for solutions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the measures do not tell us",
      "point": "The findings concern idea-generation tasks and the criteria used in the studies, not the entirety of a team’s work."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "In a Berne-based team in the federal administration, public health, telecommunications or precision manufacturing, compare two formats of equal total duration across several comparable problems: oral discussion from the outset, or silent individual writing followed by pooling."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Salas",
      "year": "1991",
      "source": "Basic and Applied Social Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Stroebe",
      "year": "1987",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    }
  ],
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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