Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct

Edmondson & Lei · Origins, Measurement & Method · Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior · 2014 · Open access

The Annual Review piece covering the PS literature from the 1990s to 2012 — the predecessor to the 2023 'Comes of Age' review. Synthesises the field's early development, maps antecedents and outcomes, and identifies gaps that motivated a decade of subsequent research.

Edmondson, A.C. and Lei, Z. (2014) 'Psychological safety: The history, renaissance, and future of an interpersonal construct', Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1, pp. 23–43.

Neighbours (16)

• Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work (paper)
• Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams (paper)
• Psychological Safety: A Meta-Analytic Review and Extension (paper)
• What is PS?
• Psychological Safety Comes of Age: Observed Themes in an Established Literature (paper)
• Psychological Safety: A Systematic Review of the Literature (paper)
• A game of adoption – but playing by whose rules? (paper)
• Errors in Organizations: An Integrative Review via Level of Analysis, Temporal Dynamism, and Priority Lenses (paper)
• History of PS
• Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of the Measures of Psychological Safety (paper)
• Reaping the Benefits of Task Conflict in Teams: The Critical Role of Team Psychological Safety Climate (paper)
• When Is Psychological Safety Helpful in Organizations? A Longitudinal Study (paper)
• Benefits of PS
• Can We Say the N-word? Exploring Psychological Safety During Race Talk (paper)
• Measuring PS
• Team Learning in the Field: An Organizing Framework and Avenues for Future Research (paper)