The relationships between perceived team psychological safety, transactive memory system, team learning behavior and team performance among individual team members

Abstract

Purpose

This study aimed to investigate the relationships between individual team member's perception of team psychological safety (TPS), individual team member's perception of transactive memory system (TMS), individual team member's perception of team learning behavior (TLB) and individual team member's perception of team performance (TP).

Design/methodology/approach

This cross-sectional study used a paper-based questionnaire that was distributed to 500 employees in travel-related industries and responses were received from 467 employees. Finally, 394 surveys were used after excluding insincere responses. Using SPSS & AMOS version 25.0, factor analysis, correlation, path analysis and mediation analysis were performed.

Findings

The findings reveal that there is a significant association between TPS, TMS, TLB and TP, except for the specialization subdimension of TMS and reflective communication and knowledge codification subdimensions of TLB. There was no mediation role of TLB; however, credibility and task coordination subdimensions of TMS showed partial mediating effects between TPS and TP.

Originality/value

This study offers suggestions for management, emphasizing the importance of TPS. Recent and rapid organizational changes have dramatically increased employees' job insecurity, which can affect their psychological safety. Therefore, organizations should actively support employees to feel psychologically stable to improve performance by utilizing TMS and TLB among individual team members.

Citation

Kim, S.M., Kim, M.J. and Jo, S.J. (2021), "The relationships between perceived team psychological safety, transactive memory system, team learning behavior and team performance among individual team members", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 42 No. 6, pp. 958-975. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-09-2020-0402