Exploring the Relationship between Team Diversity, Psychological Safety and Team Performance: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Drug Development

Bresman & Edmondson · Team Learning, Culture & Context · Harvard Business School Working Paper · 2022 · Open access

Examines how psychological safety mediates the relationship between team diversity and performance in pharmaceutical drug development. Found that PS is a prerequisite for diversity to translate into better outcomes — diverse teams with low PS underperformed homogeneous ones. One of the most important empirical papers connecting PS to equity and inclusion.

Bresman, H. and Edmondson, A.C. (2022) 'Exploring the relationship between team diversity, psychological safety and team performance: Evidence from pharmaceutical drug development'. Harvard Business School Working Paper 22-055.

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