Våga fråga: Faktorer som påverkar psykologisk trygghet i team

Sammanfattning: This thesis aims to further study the interpersonal risk taking within groups and thereby the importance of a climate promoting a reflective behavior. The increased demand in complexity and exposure towards teamwork leads to increased call for knowledge integration, which can be explained as the ability to integrate the collective knowledge within the group. We have therefor identified a need for better understanding what makes a group more effective. Key factors for self-estimated effective collaboration have been shown to be a group's reflective behavior and ability to coordinate the skills that each individual possesses. These factors are greatly affected by the psychological safety within the team. The study will further analyze which individual characteristics will have an impact on psychological safety and thus the organization's performance. The data was analyzed though regressions and our results show no significant correlation with the majority of the variables but organizational support, leader coaching, knowledge credibility, previous training experience and number of previous working groups. This confirms and reinforces previous research showing the importance of focusing on a safe environment specific for each group and the difficulty to predict a psychological safe climate only focusing on individuals' characteristics.