Psychological safety and enacted voice describes the link between feeling safe and actually speaking up. Safety can enable voice by reducing anticipated interpersonal risk, but it does not guarantee it: issue importance, power, incentives, professional norms, and perceived usefulness also decide whether concerns are raised.
- Entry typeKey concept
- Category of its source unitMeasurement & Assessment Instruments
- DomainVoice, Silence & Power
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Entry type
Key concept
Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.
Editorial orientation · Category
Measurement & Assessment Instruments
Produces measures, scores, profiles or assessments through defined items, observations or measurement rules. The entry identifies what is measured and the conditions governing interpretation.