Psychological safety has become a cornerstone concept in workplace dynamics, a vital ingredient for creativity, collaboration, and high performance. The question is often framed at the group level: Is this team psychologically safe? But this framing can obscure an important reality – that within a group that appears to enjoy psychological safety, there may be individuals or subgroups who feel excluded, unsupported, and unsafe.

Read more of Professor Binna Kandola OBE’s adapted extract from his British Psychological Society ‘Ask the Experts’ book, ‘Building a Psychologically Safe Work Environment’, on The Psychologist.