{
  "title": "Your relationship with your manager: quality exchanges without pandering",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/relation-manager-qualite-echange-sans-complaisance-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-10-03",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "The quality of the relationship with one's manager is associated with favourable outcomes, but does not justify pursuing closeness at all costs.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building an Effective Relationship with Your Manager",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the relationship measures",
      "point": "George Graen and Mary Uhl-Bien (1995, Leadership Quarterly) present the leader–member relationship as an exchange developed over time, based on trust, respect and reciprocal obligations."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Consistent associations",
      "point": "James Dulebohn and his colleagues (2012, Journal of Management) link a higher-quality relationship to satisfaction, commitment and performance through meta-analysis."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The risk of pandering",
      "point": "Turning this research into advice to pursue personal closeness confuses a working relationship with favour."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What can be improved",
      "point": "Three practices are observable: restating priorities, flagging obstacles early and asking for an explicit decision when two expectations conflict."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical implication to test in Bern",
      "point": "At the end of each of the next three exchanges, separately write down the priority as understood and the decision expected, then compare these with the manager."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Uhl-Bien",
      "year": "1995",
      "source": "Leadership Quarterly"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 224,
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/relation-avec-son-manager/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."
}