Abstract:

Based on the new economy condition, Team Leadership and Team Psychological Safety have been concerned greatly by both academicians and professionals. The existing literature of Team Leadership has been focused on its direct impact on organization, but lack of the study on mechanism and path. In this paper, using 142 teams as sample, we select trust and team psychological safety as two psychological variables and analyze whether and how the transformational leadership impact on team psychological safety through trust. The results show that both team leadership and trust have significant positive impact on team psychological safety, further analysis shows that trust has significantly moderate impact between Team Leadership and team psychological safety. It means that team leadership doesn’t only influence on team psychological safety, but also to a great extent through the intermediary role of trust to impact on.

Key words: Team Leadership Behavior, Trust, Team Psychological Safety, Mediator

摘要：

已有的团队领导研究着重于领导行为对团队绩效的影响，而缺乏其作用机制和路径的研究。本文选取信任与团队心理安全两个变量，以142个团队为样本，对团队领导行为是否以及如何通过信任影响团队心理安全进行实证研究。研究结果表明：(1)转换型领导行为与团队心理安全之间存在正相关关系，显著地影响团队心理安全感；(2)信任是形成团队心理安全感的重要因素之一；(3)信任在团队领导行为、团队心理安全感之间的中介效应显著。

关键词: 团队领导行为, 团队心理安全, 信任, 中介影响