The Team Climate For Innovation Inventory: Construction And Analysis

Through detailed review on related literatures, the study shows that the research on climate for innovation is both the deeper understanding on organizational climate and the start point to understand organizational innovation from the angle of organizational behavior. According to the research results of the foreigners, we select the theory and Team Climate Inventory put forward by Pro. Michael West as the guide to follow. The goal of the study is to understand the team innovation in the enterprises in China and the key is to construct the inventory for team climate investigation in China.Follow the principles and techniques of psychometrics and statistics, such as investigation and factor analysis, the author finally work out an inventory on team climate study on innovation. According to the data, the study also analyzes the relationship between employees' perceived team climate for innovation and their performance and discuss factors affect team climate for innovation. The results show that the perceived team climate for innovation should be a multidimensional psychological structure consist of vision, support for innovation, task orientation and interaction frequency. The employees' perceived team climate for innovation greatly affects their performance. Sex difference is found in employees' perceived team climate for innovation, and the team size greatly affect employees' perceived team climate for innovation.