A Study on Psychological Safety, Team Learning Behavior, And Its Effects on Team Efficacy and Team Effectiveness Between Teams of Blue-Collar Employees

The conviction that voicing one's opinions won't result in punishment or humiliation is known as Psychological Safety. Learning behaviour is a shift in attitude and conduct brought about by practice, education, training, and experience. Team efficacy is the belief held by all members of the team that they are capable of working effectively together. The ability of a team to achieve its goals and objectives over time is known as team effectiveness. The study is focused on understanding the level of Psychological Safety(PS), Team Learning Behaviour(TLB), Team Efficacy(TE), and Team Effectiveness(TEF) between teams and the correlation between them. The data required for the study was collected through a questionnaire through physical interaction, and the respondents were 100 employees from the manufacturing unit of the automobile industry at Dharwad i.e., 50 from Team 1 and 50 from Team 2. Two teams were considered so that a comparison on the perception of those teams could be made on Psychological Safety, Team Learning Behaviour, Team Efficacy and Team Effectiveness. Further statistical tool the Mann–Whitney U Test was applied to find the statistically significant differences between the perceptions of two Teams on the above parameters, as the data was not normally distributed and a Correlation matrix was done to understand the intercorrelation of Psychological Safety with Team Efficacy and Team Effectiveness, Team Learning Behaviour with Team Efficacy and Team Effectiveness. The results showed that for all four variables ie, Psychological Safety, Team Learning Behaviour, Team Efficacy, and Team Effectiveness, the alternative hypothesis was accepted. According to the overall mean findings, it was found that Psychological Safety, Team Learning Behaviour, Team Efficacy, and team effectiveness were high in Team 1. Inter-correlations were calculated and it was found that Psychological Safety with respect to Team Efficacy and Team Effectiveness there was a moderate degree of correlation, and with respect to Team Learning Behaviour and Team Efficacy, there was a moderate degree of correlation and for Team Learning Behaviour and Team Effectiveness, there was a high degree of correlation.