Employee Expectations of Psychological Safety Within Two Different Norwegian Organizational Settings
In the workshop, the participating employees were asked to identify examples of practice that were formed by the Diversity Icebreaker and the categories of Red, Blue, and Green. The results were analyzed in 2021 by a group of students led by Catherine T. Kwantes at University of Windsor from the Psychological Safety perspective. Based on available research literature, four trained coders developed a codebook of linguistic markers for themes related to psychological safety for each of the workshop transcripts and for the categories of: Voice, Belongingness, Appreciation, and Authenticity. Rank order was the same in the two organizations: 1. Belongingness; 2. Voice; 3. Authenticity; and 4 Appreciation. Unlike much of the literature within the North American context, which emphasizes the role of Voice, it seemed that Belongingness was more important in this study.
Reference: Livingstone, J., Dugal, E., Soleimani, M., Ryan, T., Bondy, B., Tahsin, F., Hussein, N., Kwantes, C.T. & Ekelund, B.Z: Employee Expectations of Psychological Safety Within Two Different Norwegian Organizational Settings. Midwestern Psychological Association. 94th Annual MPA Conference, April 21-23, 2022. Chicago, USA.
