{
  "title": "Preparing for your manager’s absence: what knowledge needs to be shared?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/preparer-absence-manager-savoirs-partager-neuchatel-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-06-13",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A handover involves more than passing on files. Research on coordination suggests distinguishing what people need to understand together from what they simply need to know how to find.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building an Effective Relationship with Your Manager",
  "place": {
    "name": "Neuchâtel",
    "region": "Neuchâtel",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "John E."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Knowing who knows, rather than knowing everything",
      "point": "Kyle Lewis (2003, Journal of Applied Psychology) developed and validated a measure of transactive memory systems, structured around knowledge specialization, credibility and coordination."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that a shared folder and a directory of specialists make the manager unnecessary."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What these data cannot establish",
      "point": "These studies concern teams, not directly the relationship between an employee and their manager during an absence."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Neuchâtel",
      "point": "In a watchmaking workshop, a microtechnology company or a precision microelectronics laboratory in Neuchâtel, the SHR programme « Construire une relation efficace avec son manager » can include preparing for an absence using recent real situations, anonymized where necessary."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Cannon-Bowers",
      "year": "2000",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Lewis",
      "year": "2003",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 434,
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  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}