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Exploring how leadership-followership dynamics contribute to psychological safety in workplace settings
Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Change Leadership))--University of Pretoria, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/109660 Exploring how leadership-followership dynamics contribute to psychological safety in workplace settings Babb, Sarah ichelp@gibs.co.za Olivier, Johan Mukwevho, Witness UCTD Psychological safety Constructive followership Relational dynamics Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Change Leadership))--University of Pretoria, 2025. This research examined how leadership-followership dynamics contribute to the co-construction of psychological safety in workplace settings. Psychological safety emerged as a relational climate shaped through continuous, bidirectional exchanges: leaders set the tone through encouragement and humility, whilst followers sustained this climate through constructive engagement and voice behaviours. Situated within an interpretivist paradigm, semi-structured interviews across diverse organisational sectors explored the relational conditions enabling or constraining safety. Thematic analysis revealed psychological safety as not being a fixed state, but as a negotiated process shaped by the agency of both leaders and followers. Key themes included encouraging behaviours, open communication, followership styles, and the influence of power distance. The study extends Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) theory by positioning psychological safety as a relational outcome instead of a leader-driven construct. It further advances followership theory by demonstrating how followers actively reinforce emotionally safe environments through trust-building and shared decision-making. Practical recommendations for stakeholders are offered, alongside avenues for future research. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MPhil (Change Leadership) Unrestricted Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) SDG-03: Good health and well-being 2026-04-21T08:47:16Z 2026-04-21T08:47:16Z 2026-05-05 2025 Mini Dissertation * A2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/109660 en © 2025 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Psychological safety Constructive followership Relational dynamics Exploring how leadership-followership dynamics contribute to psychological safety in workplace settings |
| title | Exploring how leadership-followership dynamics contribute to psychological safety in workplace settings |
| title_full | Exploring how leadership-followership dynamics contribute to psychological safety in workplace settings |
| title_fullStr | Exploring how leadership-followership dynamics contribute to psychological safety in workplace settings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring how leadership-followership dynamics contribute to psychological safety in workplace settings |
| title_short | Exploring how leadership-followership dynamics contribute to psychological safety in workplace settings |
| title_sort | exploring how leadership followership dynamics contribute to psychological safety in workplace settings |
| topic | UCTD Psychological safety Constructive followership Relational dynamics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/109660 |