The Team Climate Inventory (TCI): A psychometric test on a Taiwanese sample of work groups

Small Group Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 465-482

  Tseng, Hsu Min ^a   Liu, Feng Chuan ^a   West, Michael Alun ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation; Psychometrics; Team Climate Inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949150686     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496409334145     Document Type: Article

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