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Measuring climate for work group innovation: development and validation of the team climate inventory
Author(s) -
Anderson Neil R.,
West Michael A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199805)19:3<235::aid-job837>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - exploratory factor analysis , operationalization , psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , facet (psychology) , organisation climate , psychometrics , reliability (semiconductor) , work (physics) , factor analysis , applied psychology , structural equation modeling , social psychology , statistics , clinical psychology , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , epistemology , personality , quantum mechanics , big five personality traits
This paper reports the development and psychometric validation of a multi‐dimensional measure of facet‐specific climate for innovation within groups at work: the Team Climate Inventory (TCI). Brief reviews of the organizational climate and work group innovation literatures are presented initially, and the need for measures of facet‐specific climate at the level of the proximal work group asserted. The four‐factor theory of facet‐specific climate for innovation, which was derived from these reviews, is described, and the procedures used to operationalize this model into the original version measure described. Data attesting to underlying factor structure, internal homogeneity, predictive validity and factor replicability across groups of the summarized measure are presented. An initial sample of 155 individuals from 27 hospital management teams provided data for the exploratory factor analysis of this measure. Responses from 121 further groups in four occupations (35 primary health care teams, 42 social services teams, 20 psychiatric teams and 24 oil company teams; total N =971) were used to apply confirmatory factor analysis techniques. This five‐factor, 38‐item summarized version demonstrates robust psychometric properties, with acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Potential applications of this measure are described and the implication of these findings for the measurement of proximal work group climate are discussed. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.