Psychological Safety: A Foundation for Speaking Up, Collaboration, and Experimentation in Organizations

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nembhard, Ingrid M ^a   Edmondson, Amy C ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Communication; Experimentation; Leadership; Organizational learning; Performance; Psychological safety; Speaking up; Team learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925002711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0037     Document Type: Chapter

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