{
  "title": "Urgency and importance: making trade-offs visible",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/urgence-et-importance-rendre-les-arbitrages-visibles-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-23",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A looming deadline can give a task more weight than it deserves. Prioritising means distinguishing deadline pressure from the consequences of a choice.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Time Management & Prioritisation",
  "place": {
    "name": "Fribourg",
    "region": "Fribourg",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Meng Zhu, Yang Yang and Christopher K."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A complementary mechanism: goals direct attention",
      "point": "Edwin A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that important work should always take precedence over urgent work."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot decide",
      "point": "The mere urgency experiments involve controlled choices whose rewards and deadlines do not reproduce all the interdependencies of collaborative work."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Fribourg",
      "point": "In Fribourg, SHR can invite teams in agri-food businesses, bilingual industry and the university sector to log priority changes over two weeks."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Hsee",
      "year": "2018",
      "source": "Journal of Consumer Research"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Latham",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "American Psychologist"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 401,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2026-07-23-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/fribourg",
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  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}