The Role of Psychological Safety in Driving Team Creativity

Abstract

Psychological safety has become a pivotal element affecting team creativity within various organizational settings. This review brings together evidence that teams with higher psychological safety are more likely to share ideas, take risks, and work together to solve problems. Consistently, this relationship gets stronger with supportive leadership, good relationships with others, and strong learning behaviors. The results show that psychological safety improves cognitive integration, emotional trust, and adaptive learning, which are all important factors in creative output. The review also shows how the climate of an organization and the difficulty of a task affect the effects of psychological safety. Psychological safety is both a basic need and a way to get teams to be creative for a long time.