Fostering psychological safety: Using improvisation as a team building tool in management education

Shared Leadership and Improvisation: Dual Perspective of Cognition-Affection

“…The positive impact can be analyzed from two perspectives. On the one hand, from the perspective of competence motivation, shared leadership distributes responsibilities and provides information resources for team members to locate and share, which can satisfy their autonomy and creativity in work and enhance their competence motivation to implement improvisation [ 6 ]. On the other hand, from the perspective of cause motivation, shared leadership encourages team members to take the initiative to assume the “leader” role, enhances their perception of self-efficacy, and meets their autonomy needs, which can encourage members to implement improvisation to help the team get rid of difficulties [ 8 , 13 ].…”

“…Meanwhile, previous research on improvisation usually focuses on factors at a single level, while Mangi et al believe that research on improvisation should adopt a cross-level analysis method to consider the influence mechanism of team factors on individual improvisation [ 23 ]. In view of this, the current study explores the cross-level impact of shared leadership on improvisation, which responds to the scholars in the call for study across levels of improvisation and deepens the understanding of individual behavior triggers off the cuff [ 6 , 10 , 11 ].…”

“…Improvisation is defined as a behavioral process in which team members try to achieve their goals in creative, immediate, and new ways, and it occurs when novel actions are deliberately designed and executed in the same process [ 3 , 4 ]. Improvisation brings about novel and useful solutions in the spur of the moment and helps individuals to cater to the need for rapid responses [ 5 , 6 ]. Meanwhile, teams offer faster and more flexible mobility and information processing capabilities than a centralized organizational structure [ 7 , 8 ].…”

Psychological safety during a large-scale simulation-based learning event

“…It is important to note that PS is not only important for SBL, healthcare organisations and teams, but is also applicable to many other education settings and organisations (Carrera, Naweed, Leigh, Crea, Krynski, Heveldt, 2018;Torralba et al, 2020;McClintock et al, 2022;Perrmann-Graham et al, 2022).…”

“…PS is an important concept for all educational settings, not only those that implement simulationbased training. Literature suggests that students in a psychologically safe environment demonstrate a willingness to express themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally (Lateef, 2020;Perrmann-Graham, Liu, Cangioni & Spataro, 2022). In healthcare training, specifically, a lack of PS is said to lead to clinical errors (Henricksen et al, 2017;Lateef, 2020).…”