The Effect of Psychological Safety on Innovation Behavior: A Meta-Analysis

This meta-analysis examines the relationship between psychological safety and innovation behavior and explores potential moderators that may moderate the relationship: cultural context and team type.A total of 94 independent samples of 85 articles meet the inclusion criteria (N=19180) through literature screening.The results of this study indicate that psychological safety has a significant effect on employee innovation behavior (r=0.299) and team innovation behavior (r=0.435); in addition, we found that cultural background moderate the relationship between psychological safety and employee innovation behavior; and team type moderate the relationship between psychological safety and team innovation behavior.In summary of the results, this meta-analysis highlights the impact of psychological safety on different contexts of innovation behavior and also provides a reference for future psychological safety research.