digest Edmondson's work on psychological safety

[chadwhitacre]

Reticketed from #494 (comment).

Amy Edmondson developed the concept of "psychological safety" to explain why certain teams perform better than others. In a 1999 paper (PDF), she defines psychological safety as, "a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking." Here's a 2014 TEDx talk and here's a Google re:Work post where I found it linked.

We've recently adopted safety as a core value (#431), and in fact our bedrock value. How does Edmondson's work inform our understanding of safety as it relates to our open company?

[chadwhitacre]

Interesting tangents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_management
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Management

[chadwhitacre]

Thanks for your work on psychological safety. Any insights on how it might apply to open-source software teams and the like? ... where distinctives vs. traditional orgs would incl. highly fluid membership, and the public Internet as work environment.

https://twitter.com/whit537/status/698668527780130816