TCI: Team Climate Inventory

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The Team Climate Inventory (TCI) was developed to measure team function. This tool can be used to measure proximal work group climate and team members' perceptions of climatic dimensions in organizational climate surveys, team building and development, selection of new members into groups, and group development over time.

The Team Climate Inventory is a 38-item tool using both a 5 and 7 point scale. The tool is used to measure team function. It has 4 subscales: vision, participative safety, task orientation, and support for innovation.

Reference	Bosch, M., Dijkstra, R., Wensing, M., van der Weijden, T., and Grol, R. (2008). Organizational culture, team climate and diabetes care in small office-based practices. BMC Health Services Research, 8, 180.
Tool Description	This modified version of the Team Climate Inventory is a 14-item tool with a 5-point scale that is used to measure team function. It has 4 subscales: vision, participative safety, task orientation, and support for innovation (Bosch et al., 2008).
Country	Netherlands
Setting	Primary care practices
Professions	Medicine, Nursing and Practice Assistants
Sample	83 providers from
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	vision	Cronbach’s α = .91 Correlations: Between scales & measure=.75-°©‐.84 Individual factors: vision=.81, participative safety =.79, task orientation=.78 and support for innovation=.82. Individual factors r=.49–.53.
	participative safety	Cronbach’s α = .91 Correlations: Between scales & measure=.75-°©‐.84 Individual factors: vision=.81, participative safety =.79, task orientation=.78 and support for innovation=.82. Individual factors r=.49–.53.
	task orientation	Cronbach’s α = .91 Correlations: Between scales & measure=.75-°©‐.84 Individual factors: vision=.81, participative safety =.79, task orientation=.78 and support for innovation=.82. Individual factors r=.49–.53.
	support for innovation	Cronbach’s α = .91 Correlations: Between scales & measure=.75-°©‐.84 Individual factors: vision=.81, participative safety =.79, task orientation=.78 and support for innovation=.82. Individual factors r=.49–.53.
Contact	m.bosch@iq.umcn.nl

Reference	Anderson, N. R., and 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. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Wiley Online Library may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.
Tool Description	The Team Climate Inventory is a 38-item tool using both a 5 and 7 point scale. The tool is used to measure team function. It has 4 subscales: vision, participative safety, task orientation, and support for innovation (Bosch et al., 2008)
Country	UK
Setting	Hospital management teams
Professions	Phase 1: Health Adminstration Phase 2: Medicine, Nursing, Oil Company teams and Psychiatry
Sample	155 employees
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	vision	Internal consistency: Cronbach’s α each factor = .84 ‐ .94 Intercorrelation p<0.01
	participative safety	Internal consistency: Cronbach’s α each factor = .84 ‐ .94 Intercorrelation p<0.01
	task orientation	Internal consistency: Cronbach’s α each factor = .84 ‐ .94 Intercorrelation p<0.01
	support for innovation	Internal consistency: Cronbach’s α each factor = .84 ‐ .94 Intercorrelation p<0.01
Contact	Neil Anderson, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW UK.