Climate for Innovation (Scott & Bruce)
HR & WorkReliability: alpha 0.873 sample items
About this scale
A multi-item measure of organizational climate for innovation — support for new ideas, resources for innovation, and tolerance of risk.
Sample item(s)
“My organization can be described as flexible and continually adapting to change”
“Creativity is encouraged here”
“Around here, people are allowed to try to solve the same problems in different ways”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.87. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Standard innovation-climate measure.
Source & citation
Scott, S. G., & Bruce, R. A. (1994): Determinants of innovative behavior: A path model of individual innovation in the workplace. Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 580–607.
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