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This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 17-18, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois.  It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.

When Interdisciplinary health care teams work well, they provide integrated care to patients with complex problems. When they work poorly, tension and conflict among team members can undermine communication and have negative effects on the quality of care. While the personalities of team members may be one source of problems in team functioning, properties of the team's structure and culture also are important sources of problems. In this paper, we present a new self-report scale to measure one property of team culture that can negatively affect team functioning, the degree of anomie in a team. We first discuss the procedures for developing the items; then we present the results of a study designed to provide initial data on the validity and reliability of the scale.