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

Bresman · 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.

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