How Psychological Safety Impacts R&D Project Teams' Performance

摘要

The project team has become the preferred way to conduct R&D. Our study suggests psychological safety among team members can improve team performance and functioning. Using data collected from 320 employees and 80 team leaders on R&D teams in Taiwan, we tested four hypotheses with structural equation modeling to examine how psychological safety impacts R&D employees in four areas. We found that psychological safety can result in greater task performance, knowledge-sharing behavior, organizational citizenship behavior, and lower turnover intention.