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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Team Climate Inventory.

TCI

What it measures
Team-level climate for innovation across four factors: vision, participative safety, task orientation and support for innovation.
Length and format
44 (full); 38-item and 14-item short versions. 5-pt agreement, aggregated to team level (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Validated versions in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese and Chinese - one of the most widely adapted team-level instruments.
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
mixed

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Reference
Anderson, N. R., & West, M. A. (1998). Measuring climate for work group innovation: Development and validation of the team climate inventory. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 19(3), 235-258.

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