TY - JOUR AB - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between team psychological safety and team performance and to test the mediating effect of learning orientation and moderating effect of psychological empowerment on that relationship.Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 50 teams and 345 team members from 20 different organizations. The moderated mediation analysis of psychological empowerment was tested using hierarchical regression analysis (PROCESS Macro) in SPSS.Findings The results show that higher the psychological empowerment, higher is the effect of psychological safety and learning orientation on team performance. Results supported the moderated mediation analysis of psychological empowerment.Practical implications Given that psychological empowerment and learning orientation of team members will effect team performance, organizational efforts to foster psychological empowerment should be rewarding. Focusing on channelizing team psychological safety to improve team members’ relationship, openness and comfort with each other will increase team performance.Originality/value The study incorporated learning orientation and psychological empowerment to redefine the relationship between psychological safety and team performance. VL - 27 IS - 4 SN - 1934-8835 DO - 10.1108/IJOA-10-2018-1567 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-10-2018-1567 AU - Jha Sumi PY - 2018 Y1 - 2018/01/01 TI - Team psychological safety and team performance: A moderated mediation analysis of psychological empowerment T2 - International Journal of Organizational Analysis PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 903 EP - 924 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -