{
  "title": "Prioritisation: is collective agreement enough to validate a ranking?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/prioriser-un-accord-collectif-suffit-il-a-valider-le-classement-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-02-10",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A team can agree on its priorities without considering all the relevant information. Research suggests distinguishing convergence of views from the quality of the decision.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Time Management & Prioritisation",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Garold Stasser and William Titus (1985, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) showed in a group decision-making experiment that discussion could favour information already shared by members over information held by just one person."
    },
    {
      "heading": "When convergence does not correct error",
      "point": "Jan Lorenz, Heiko Rauhut, Frank Schweitzer and Dirk Helbing (2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) studied social influence in quantitative estimation tasks."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that discussion should be replaced by an average of individual rankings."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not establish",
      "point": "These experiments concern structured decisions and estimates, not the day-to-day management of a portfolio of work in Berne."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "Within SHR's « Gestion du temps & priorisation » programme, an exercise suitable for Berne is to ask participants to prepare independently a ranking and one piece of information that could change it: a regulatory deadline in the federal administration, a public health risk, a network dependency in telecommunications or a tolerance requirement in precision manufacturing."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Titus",
      "year": "1985",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Helbing",
      "year": "2011",
      "source": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 431,
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    "fr": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/prioriser-un-accord-collectif-suffit-il-a-valider-le-classement",
    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/prioriser-un-accord-collectif-suffit-il-a-valider-le-classement-en",
    "de": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/prioriser-un-accord-collectif-suffit-il-a-valider-le-classement-de",
    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/prioriser-un-accord-collectif-suffit-il-a-valider-le-classement-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-gestion-du-temps-berne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/berne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}