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The fearless organization : creating psychological safety in the workplace for learning, innovation, and growth  Cover Image Book Book

The fearless organization : creating psychological safety in the workplace for learning, innovation, and growth / Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard Business School.

Edmondson, Amy C., (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781119477242 (Hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1119477247 (Hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xxi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The underpinning -- The paper trail -- Avoidable failure -- Dangerous silence -- The fearless workplace -- Safe and sound -- Making it happen -- What's next.
Subject: Organizational behavior.
Organizational learning > Psychological aspects.
Psychology, Industrial.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Community College.

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Introduction xiii
What It Takes to Thrive in a Complex, Uncertain World xiii
Discovery by Mistake xvi
Overview of the Book xviii
Endnotes xxi
PART I The Power of Psychological Safety
1(50)
Chapter 1 The Underpinning
3(22)
Unconscious Calculators
4(2)
Envisioning the Psychologically Safe Workplace
6(2)
An Accidental Discovery
8(4)
Standing on Giants' Shoulders
12(1)
Why Fear Is Not an Effective Motivator
13(2)
What Psychological Safety Is Not
15(4)
Measuring Psychological Safety
19(2)
Psychological Safety Is Not Enough
21(1)
Endnotes
22(3)
Chapter 2 The Paper Trail
25(26)
Not a Perk
26(3)
The Research
29(1)
An Epidemic of Silence
30(5)
A Work Environment that Supports Learning
35(4)
Why Psychological Safety Matters for Performance
39(2)
Psychologically Safe Employees Are Engaged Employees
41(2)
Psychological Safety as the Extra Ingredient
43(2)
Bringing Research to Practice
45(1)
Endnotes
46(5)
PART II Psychological Safety at Work
51(100)
Chapter 3 Avoidable Failure
53(24)
Exacting Standards
54(6)
Stretching the Stretch Goal
60(3)
Fearing the Truth
63(3)
Who Regulates the Regulators?
66(2)
Avoiding Avoidable Failure
68(2)
Adopting an Agile Approach to Strategy
70(2)
Endnotes
72(5)
Chapter 4 Dangerous Silence
77(26)
Failing to Speak Up
78(1)
What Was Not Said
79(4)
Excessive Confidence in Authority
83(3)
A Culture of Silence
86(6)
Silence in the Noisy Age of Social Media
92(5)
Endnotes
97(6)
Chapter 5 The Fearless Workplace
103(26)
Making Candor Real
104(5)
Extreme Candor
109(4)
Be a Don't Knower
113(3)
When Failure Works
116(3)
Caring for Employees
119(4)
Learning from Psychologically Safe Work Environments
123(1)
Endnotes
124(5)
Chapter 6 Safe and Sound
129(22)
Use Your Words
130(5)
One for All and All for One
135(3)
Speaking Up for Worker Safety
138(4)
Transparency by Whiteboard
142(4)
Unleashing Talent
146(1)
Endnotes
147(4)
PART III Creating a Fearless Organization
151(62)
Chapter 7 Making it Happen
153(34)
The Leader's Tool Kit
154(4)
How to Set the Stage for Psychological Safety
158(9)
How to Invite Participation So People Respond
167(6)
How to Respond Productively to Voice --- No Matter Its Quality
173(8)
Leadership Self-Assessment
181(2)
Endnotes
183(4)
Chapter 8 What's Next?
187(26)
Continuous Renewal
187(2)
Deliberative Decision-Making
189(2)
Hearing the Sounds of Silence
191(2)
When Humor Isn't Funny
193(2)
Psychological Safety FAQs
195(13)
Tacking Upwind
208(1)
Endnotes
209(4)
Appendix: Variations in survey measures to Illustrate Robustness of Psychological Safety 213(4)
Acknowledgments 217(2)
About the Author 219(2)
Index 221


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