{
  "title": "Hierarchical power: what authority does not guarantee",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/pouvoir-hierarchique-ce-que-lautorite-ne-garantit-pas-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-11-24",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Having the final say does not guarantee a better assessment of risk. Research invites us to examine how a position of power changes the way a decision is viewed.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Decision-making",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Cameron Anderson and Adam D."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The perspective that authority can overlook",
      "point": "Adam D."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that decisions should be taken away from those who hold authority."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not allow us to transfer directly",
      "point": "A position of power induced in an experiment does not reproduce professional experience, regulatory obligations or a team's lasting relationships."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "As part of SHR's « Prise de décision » programme, an exercise could be offered to a medtech team, a higher education institution, an international sports organisation in Lausanne or a scale-up in the Lake Geneva region: before making a decision, the decision-maker records the constraints they attribute to those responsible for implementation."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Galinsky",
      "year": "2006",
      "source": "European Journal of Social Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Gruenfeld",
      "year": "2006",
      "source": "Psychological Science"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 451,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2025-11-24-en.jpg?v=4",
  "translations": {
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/pouvoir-hierarchique-ce-que-lautorite-ne-garantit-pas-en",
    "de": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/pouvoir-hierarchique-ce-que-lautorite-ne-garantit-pas-de",
    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/pouvoir-hierarchique-ce-que-lautorite-ne-garantit-pas-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/prise-de-decision/lausanne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/lausanne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}