Team Climate Inventory - Revised (TCI - R)

Author(s): Neil Anderson and Michael West

Publisher: ASE, 1994

Purpose: To measure team climate

Candidates: 18+ years of age

Administration: 15 minutes - Group

Scoring: By computer (software provided with Starter Set)

Features: Identifies areas of team dysfunction for further intervention

Content:

The TCI is a multidimensional measure of work group climate. The 44 question TCI measures four factors which are shown to be predictive of effective team performance and which could most usefully benefi t from positive interventions:

• Team Vision - clarity, perceived value, sharedness and attainability
• Participation Safety - decision-making, information sharing, interaction frequency and safety
• Support for Innovation - articulated and enhanced support
• Task Orientation - commitment to excellence, appraisal and task orientation

The potential uses of the TCI include:

• Team climate surveys for organisations as part of organisational development interventions;
• Team climate diagnosis and development interventions;
• Team innovation and creativity interventions to enhance innovative potential;
• Measuring team development and changes in group climate over time;
• Selection of new team members and their induction into the team.

The TCI is provided with normative data from both public and private sectors and a scoring disc computer program.