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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/seek-decision-complexity-not-just-more-task-volume",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9037",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Seek decision complexity, not just more task volume",
  "summary": "More work can increase endurance without increasing judgment.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "Compare the decisions in the current role with the decisions expected at the next level. Look for a bounded responsibility that adds ambiguity, trade-off ownership, cross-functional reasoning or consequence while keeping support and authority aligned. Measure the new decision quality, not the number of tasks completed.",
  "limits": [
    "Greater complexity is not always desirable. Roles also need reliable execution, and added decision scope must come with matching authority."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-skill-acquisition-career-dominant-focus"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-A34967A7C032E728",
    "RS-05CB28C0C7CF56B3"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 122 samples found job-crafting dimensions were differently associated with engagement, satisfaction and performance, so job crafting should not be treated as one uniform behavior.",
      "source_id": "RS-A34967A7C032E728",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Most evidence is correlational and the direction of effects can differ by crafting dimension.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    },
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of adaptive training found that effects varied by instructional intervention, with adaptive difficulty showing the strongest results among the examined categories.",
      "source_id": "RS-05CB28C0C7CF56B3",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The literature was heterogeneous and much of the context was military training; this does not validate every adaptive-learning product.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When career growth produces more tickets, meetings or cases but the decisions remain at the same level."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Greater complexity is not always desirable. Roles also need reliable execution, and added decision scope must come with matching authority."
  ],
  "example": "Instead of processing more change requests, a senior-track consultant owns the trade-off between data quality, timeline and downstream process impact for one release.",
  "check": "The stretch changes the kind of judgment required, not merely the workload count.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-A34967A7C032E728",
      "title": "Job crafting: A meta-analysis of relationships with individual differences, job characteristics, and work outcomes",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879117300477"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-05CB28C0C7CF56B3",
      "title": "Adaptive training instructional interventions: A meta-analysis",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39083372/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-EA04F47374E04549",
      "title": "Learn new skills, turn them into career evidence, and protect the main development edge",
      "url": "/collections/learn-new-skills-turn-them-into-career-evidence-and-protect-the-main-development-edge"
    }
  ]
}