Team Exploratory and Exploitative Learning: Psychological Safety, Task Conflict, and Team Performance

By Konstantinos C. Kostopoulos, Nikos Bozionelos. 2011

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This study conceptualized exploratory and exploitative learning as distinct team-level activities, constructed measures of them, and examined their relationships with psychological safety, task conflict, and team performance. Structural equation analysis in a sample of 142 innovation project teams indicated that psychological safety was linearly and nonlinearly related to team exploitative and exploratory learning, respectively; whereas task conflict positively moderated the relationship between psychological safety and exploitative learning. Furthermore, exploratory and exploitative learning were additively related to team performance, as rated by team managers, and mediated its relationship with psychological safety. The findings contribute to understanding how and under what conditions organizational teams engage in exploratory and exploitative learning to maximize their performance.

Subfields: Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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From orientation to behavior: The interplay between learning orientation, open-mindedness, and psychological safety in team learning (2019, background): “…(Choo et al., 2007), and innovation teams at industrial research organizations (Post, 2012) and in the information communication technology and pharmaceutical sectors (Kostopoulos and Bozionelos, 2011), and project improvement teams in hospital neonatal intensive care units (Tucker et al., 2007).”
Thriving at work: A meta‐analysis (2019, background): “Moreover, a psychologically nonthreatening environment has been found to encourage risk taking and divergent thinking, which reinforce exploratory learning (Edmondson, 1999; Kostopoulos&Bozionelos,2011).”
Time pressure and team member creativity within R&D projects: The role of learning orientation and knowledge sourcing (2017, background): “Learning orientation increases team members' willingness to solicit and use feedback to improve their knowledge and creativity (Kostopoulos and Bozionelos, 2011).”