Investigating The Impact Of Psychological Safety On Project Success And Mediating Role Of Leadership Pressure
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Abstract
Psychological safety is an essential construct for developing open and collaborative workplaces that have direct implications for the success of a project. Pressure from leadership can be both a facilitator and inhibitor of this relationship. Psychological safety's effect on project success is investigated by this study as a mediating variable, i.e., pressure from leadership. The primary aim is to examine the impact of leadership pressure on team dynamics and the effectiveness of psychological safety in project environments. The study uses a mixed-method approach, where qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection are used together. A stratified random sampling technique was utilized in order to select 200 project managers working in various industries in Delhi NCR. Statistical packages SPSS and AMOS were utilised to execute the analysis based on methods such as mean, standard deviation, and regression. The results are indicative of significant positive correlation among psychological safety and project success while leadership pressure partially mediates in a strong way. Moderate levels of leadership pressure enhance motivation as well as responsibility, but extremely high pressure decreases team morale along with project outcomes. The study provides useful lessons to organizations in the field of balanced leadership approaches that ensure psychological safety at the highest levels but do not create unusually high stress levels. The limitations of the study are geographical limitation and self-reported data, which restrict generalizability. Future research must continue to examine mediators to other ones, other forms of leadership, and also between industry categories in order to further unravel the three-way interaction of psychological safety, leadership, and project performance. These findings add to theoretical as well as practical discussion towards maximizing workplace dynamics to enhance project success.