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LIT-1220: Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams

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StatusActive — read 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1404) in full, from a JSTOR-printed copy posted among MIT course readings (https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/Group_Performance/Edmondson%20Psychological%20safety.pdf); worth reading as the paper that defines team psychological safety, a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking, and finds it associated with team learning behavior in 51 teams of one company, with learning behavior carrying its association with observer-rated performance. Read it knowing that the study is cross-sectional and in one company, that the antecedents and safety come from the same survey, that efficacy's role is mixed rather than absent, and that its teams are cooperative: it says nothing about compromised or adversarial members.
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Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1404 — Edmondson — Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams

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Edmondson, A. (1999). Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams. Administrative Science Quarterly 44(2): 350–383. doi:10.2307/2666999.

Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1404).

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A41 of the exchange cited it as “an important complementary result” for robust governance under internal compromise: the capacity to challenge has to be protected, or the audit that robustness depends on goes quiet. Bears on CLAIM-359 (robustness to compromised constituents is a property of the processes that allocate and audit authority) and CASE-108.

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