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Developing Psychological Safety In Technical Teams, Susan Ellen Clayton Nakashima
Developing Psychological Safety In Technical Teams, Susan Ellen Clayton Nakashima
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Being promoted from an individual contributor to a supervisor brings new challenges and opportunities. One challenge new supervisors face is creating and fostering a psychologically safe environment to encourage teams’ interpersonal risk taking. This research introduces the antecedent of first level technical leaders perceived transformational leadership training on team members psychological safety. A study of 92 technical teams (400 participants across nine companies, three industries, and four US regions) measured the impact of four hypotheses related to psychological safety. A positive relationship between leaders training and team psychological safety was discovered. The highly correlated variables, training and emotional intelligence, led …
The Impact Of Manager Appreciative Communication On Employee Psychological Well-Being Being, Matthew Bowman
The Impact Of Manager Appreciative Communication On Employee Psychological Well-Being Being, Matthew Bowman
Theses and Dissertations
Communication and leadership are both important components of a successful organization and can play a role in an employee's psychological well-being. This study looks at managers communication and the real-life impact on an employee's experience at work and how it affects their happiness. This study uses a mixed methodology to build a foundation of data, each from the managers and employees' point of view to build context and generate a direction a manager can take when communicating with their staff. The manager and employee reactions showed a correlation between a manager's ability to communicate their appreciation to their employee. A …