An empirical study of psychological safety and performance in technology R&D teams

Author

Huang, C.C. ; Chu, C.Y. ; Jiang, P.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Technol. Manage., Aletheia Univ., Tainan

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1423

Lastpage

1427

Abstract

R&D teams are utilized to develop technologies, improve services and operations. Thus, understanding how R&D teams perform successfully is the focus of this study. Psychological safety could facilitate team learning because team members are not afraid to make mistakes and then teams could perform better. Therefore, this study analyzes psychological safety in team performance and examines the mediated effect of team learning on psychological safety and team performance in technology R&D teams. Our research model is assessed using data from a sample of 100 members of 60 technology R&D teams and is analyzed using partial least squares (PLS) method. The results of this study indicate: (1) psychological safety has an effect on team performance and (2) team learning mediates the relationship between psychological safety and team performance. This study also discusses implications for technology R&D teams, based on the results of this study.

Keywords

innovation management; knowledge management; least squares approximations; organisational aspects; psychology; organizational tasks; partial least squares method; psychological safety; team learning effect; team performance; technology R&D teams; Hospitals; Least squares methods; Manufacturing; Performance analysis; Psychology; Research and development; Safety; Teamwork; Technology management; Testing; R&D teams; partial least squares; psychological safety; team learning; team performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology, 2008. ICMIT 2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2329-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2330-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654580

Filename

4654580