Building psychological safety for employee engagement in post-recession

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the role of psychological safety in engaging employees at times of economic recession.

Design/methodology/approach

Review of literature.

Findings

On perceiving a psychologically safe environment, employees freely share their knowledge, learn, and take risks to build their intrapreneurial abilities that would facilitate their level of engagement toward organization.

Originality/value

Focuses on employee engagement by taking into consideration the key measurements of psychological safety in post-recession.

Citation

Tiwari, B. and Lenka, U. (2016), "Building psychological safety for employee engagement in post-recession", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 30 No. 1, pp. 19-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLO-05-2015-0044