{
  "title": "Psychological safety: what research actually establishes",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/securite-psychologique-ce-que-la-recherche-etablit-vraiment-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-09-24",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "The notion is everywhere in management talk. Research clarifies its scope: a team climate, not a state of individual comfort.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Team Performance",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "The founding result",
      "point": "Amy Edmondson (1999, Administrative Science Quarterly) defines psychological safety as a shared belief within a team that it is safe to take interpersonal risks — reporting a mistake, asking a question, voicing disagreement."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the syntheses consolidated",
      "point": "The meta-analysis by Lance Frazier and colleagues (2017, Personnel Psychology) confirms associations between psychological safety, information sharing, learning and performance."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The nuance that changes the reading",
      "point": "Edmondson herself insists on a point often lost: psychological safety is neither niceness nor the absence of demands."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What follows for a leadership team",
      "point": "If the concept describes a collective climate, it cannot be decreed through a communication campaign."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical implication, verifiable in-house",
      "point": "A check requiring no instrumentation: for a team's last three incidents, note when the information surfaced and who raised it."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Edmondson",
      "year": "1999",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Eva",
      "year": "2017",
      "source": "Human Resource Management Review"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 307,
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}