Development and Validation of a Psychometric Scale for Assessing Work Group Climate

This paper presents the development and validation process of a new scale for assessing work group climate in organizational setting. Every organization and every workgroup has a climate. Climate is the environment in which people work that affects how people behave at work. Workgroups with a positive, supportive climate tend to perform well and achieve their desired results. To assess the work group climate a scale was developed which consists of 21 items before standardization. In this scale participants have to give responses based on self-perception about climate of their group. Sample of 215 employees working in different private sector organizations were selected for the standardization of this scale. The reliability index was ascertained by computing Cronbach's alpha coefficient which was found to be 0.867 for this scale. Based on corrected item-total correlation, 5 items were excluded. Results of factor analysis (Principal Component Analysis with Varimax Rotation) indicate that three component solutions were formed suitable to the scale. 1 item was excluded due to cross loadings and 15 remaining items are retained from the original scale. This scale has good reliability index and satisfactory construct validity. It could be a useful tool for work group climate in organizational setting.