Radikaali psykologinen turvallisuus tilapäisorganisaation luovan ja tuloksellisen toiminnan mahdollistajana

Kirjoittajat

• Virva Salmivaara Aalto-yliopisto
• Frank Martela Aalto-yliopisto
• Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä Aalto-yliopisto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37450/ht.100037

Avainsanat:

Psychological safety, temporary organisation, swift trust, Burning Man

Abstrakti

Psychological safety in temporary
organisations
We explore how psychological safety—a team’s
shared experience that it is safe to take inter-per-
sonal risks—is possible in temporary self-man-
aging organisations. Our findings present team-
work practices used by a highly diverse group
that constructed a complex art installation for
the Burning Man festival. Based on a question-
naire and a qualitative analysis of 20 interviews,
we suggest that the team experienced radically
high psychological safety because it defined the
project’s concept through co-creation, gave par-
ticipants complete freedom to choose their roles,
and collectively challenged participants