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Building a Workplace-Based Learning Culture: The "Receiver's" Perspective on Speaking Up
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Building a Workplace-Based Learning Culture: The "Receiver's" Perspective on Speaking Up

Melanie Barlow, Bernadette Watson, Elizabeth Jones, Kate J. Morse, Fiona Maccallum and Jenny Rudolph
The Journal of applied behavioral science, v 61(1), pp 39-62
01 Mar 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863231190951View
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Behavioral Sciences Business & Economics Life Sciences & Biomedicine Management Psychology, Applied Psychology, Experimental Science & Technology Psychology Social Sciences
Nurturing psychological safety has become a vital antidote to the psychological depletion driving clinicians from healthcare. How to support the clinician's voice, the question at the heart of this study, has never been more important. Here, we explore a hidden aspect of speaking up conversations, how "receivers" experience the dialog. If, when, and how clinicians take in clinically relevant concerns from others is crucial to patient safety. Yet we know little about how different forms of speaking up impact the receiver of the message. We found that receivers of the same message may respond quite differently depending on their professional identity, context, attributions they made, and how the message was phrased. Our findings suggest several actionable practices: (1) Shift the focus of speaking up to training the receiver; (2) frame speaking up as a shared accomplishment; (3) co-create contexts of shared accountability between the speaker and the receiver.

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