Who is Being Assessed or Evaluated?:
Instrument Type:
Self-report (e.g., survey, questionnaire, self-rating)
Source of Data:
Health care providers, staff
Other
Notes for Data Sources:
The tool is intended for use with healthcare management teams. In the first several phases of the study, data from n=155 respondents from 27 hospital teams were used to conduct exploratory factor analyses, compute measures of internal consistency, and to support predictive validity analyses. Participating teams ranged in size from 4-19 persons and included unit general managers, heads of nursing, accountants, personnel managers, and senior medical consultants. In the latter phases of the study, data from n=971 respondents from an independent sample of 121 teams were used to execute confirmatory factor and discriminant analyses. Organizations in this sample included 35 primary health care teams; 24 management teams in an international oil company, and 20 community psychiatric care teams.
Instrument Content:
Reported perceptions, experiences of working relationships, teamwork
Organizational environment, culture
Notes for Content:
The TCI assesses four climate factors predictive of innovation. A fifth factor ("interaction frequency") was also suggested in both the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, but was not part of the original theoretical model.
- Vision
- Participative safety (further split into Participative safety and Interaction frequency)
- Task orientation
- Support for innovation
Instrument Length:
38 items; no time length specified.
Item Format:
Three response formats are used depending on the item content. A 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from "strongly disagree" (1) to "strongly agree" (5) is used for agreement questions. A 7-point Likert-type scale ranging from "not at all" (1) to "completely" (7) is used for questions of degree. A 7-point Likert-type scale ranging from to "a very little extent" (1) to to "a very great extent" (7) is used for questions of extent.
Administration:
In this study, senior management teams were contacted to participate in the study. A researcher visited the site and outlined the procedure. Managers were then sent the questionnaires to distribute, and individual team members were responsible for returning the questionnaires by mail.
Scoring:
Scores for all team members are summed by section of the questionnaire. These sums are then divided by number of people on the team who complete a questionnaire.
Language:
English (Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish translations of the TCI are available in the literature).
Access:
Subscription (can be viewed in journal article)
Notes on Access:
Contact the author to confirm permission to use.
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