Validation of the four‐factor Team Climate Inventory in Greece

Abstract

Purpose -Innovation among team members has long been an area of interest to social scientists, and particularly to industrial/organizational psychologists. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factor structure of the Team Climate Inventory (TCI), a multidimensional team-level measure of team-working style, in Greece. Design/methodology/approach -The TCI was translated into Greek and administered to a total of 52 work teams (n ¼ 236 individuals) in clerical and shop floor working positions employed in a variety of jobs in the public and private sector. Findings -An item analysis indicated that all original TCI items, except one, should be retained in the Greek version of the TCI. Further analyses yielded high internal consistency both for the full scale and for the four dimensions, and also acceptable discriminant validity among the four scales. An exploratory factor analysis was also successful in extracting the four original factors, accounting for 55.67 percent of the total variance. Research limitations/implications -The results provided further support for the validity of the original version of the TCI. Practical implications -It is concluded that the Greek adaptation of the TCI is a potentially useful instrument to measure group climate dimensions that may facilitate work teams' innovative capacity. Originality/value -The findings provided support for the adequacy of the TCI to measure team climate for innovation in Greece

Innovation climate: A systematic review of the literature and agenda for future research

“…This measure captures West's (1990) four sub-dimensions of innovation climate: participative safety, support for innovation, vision, and task orientation. The short form of the TCI has been validated in a number of languages including Swedish (Agrell & Gustafson, 1994), Finnish (Kivim€ aki & Elovainio, 1999;Kivim€ aki et al, 1997), Italian (Ragazzoni, Baiardi, Zotti, Anderson, & West, 2002), Norwegian (Mathisen, Einarsen, Jørstad, & Brønnick, 2004;Mathisen et al, 2006), Dutch (Strating & Nieboer, 2009), Greek (Chatzi & Nikolaou, 2008), and Chinese (Tseng, Liu, & West, 2009), and across a range of industrial contexts. In the latter version, participative safety was split into two sub-dimensions 'participative safety' and 'interaction frequency', which became a fifth dimension (Anderson & West, 1998).…”

Prática interprofissional colaborativa e clima do trabalho em equipe na Atenção Primária à Saúde

“…Visa contribuir para ações de melhoria do desempenho das equipes (129) . O instrumento é utilizado no contexto da APS, e foi adaptado e validado em diversos países como Itália, Grécia, Noruega, Espanha, Suécia, Taiwan (28,30,(130)(131)(132)(133) e outros. (134) (adaptação e tradução nossa).…”

“…A inclusão desse item é problematizada na literatura de adaptação transcultural e validação da ECTE (128,131,139) . Na versão brasileira da escala, o item "nos influenciamos mutuamente" foi mantido após consulta aos autores da escala original.…”

“…Nas versões de validação da Grécia (131) e Holanda (139) o item foi excluído, por apresentar baixa relação com os demais itens do fator de Participação da equipe. As dúvidas dos participantes do estudo no item 3 da escala pode estar relacionado à interpretação negativa ou positiva do termo "influenciamos" (128,140 (141) .…”

Pro-active Behaviour in Context of Team Climate

“…This relates to psychological security and support in the course of proposing new and better methods of work (Proudfoot, Jayasinghe, Holton et al, 2007); Tasks orientation -to what extent the team considers the fulfi lment of tasks as an important element of team productivity in relation to the joint mission. TCI-38 was subsequently validated in Italy (Ragazzoni, Baiardi, Zotti et al, 2002), Greece (Chatzi and Nikolaou, 2008), Norway (Mathisen, Einarsen, Jørstad et al, 2004) and China (Sun, Zhao and Chen, 2011).…”