{
  "title": "Requests from your manager: how can you protect concentration?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/sollicitations-du-manager-preserver-la-concentration-a-lausanne-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-09-14",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Responding immediately to your manager may seem essential to a good working relationship. Research on interruptions suggests that availability and effectiveness should be distinguished.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building an Effective Relationship with Your Manager",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Sophie Leroy (2009, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes) demonstrates experimentally that some attention can remain attached to the previous task when switching to another activity, particularly when the first task remains unfinished."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Not all interruptions serve the same purpose",
      "point": "Quintus R."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that managers should be asked to stop interrupting periods of focused work."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot specify",
      "point": "Task-switching experiments establish neither a universally appropriate period of protected concentration nor an optimal response time to a manager."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "As part of SHR's “Construire une relation efficace avec son manager” programme, a Lausanne-based manager and employee can test an agreed focus period for two weeks, with a channel reserved for jointly defined emergencies."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Leroy",
      "year": "2009",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    },
    {
      "authors": "George",
      "year": "2003",
      "source": "Academy of Management Review"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 465,
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/relation-avec-son-manager/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."
}