Assessing organizational climate: psychometric properties of the CLIOR Scale

• Published in: Psicothema Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 137 - 144
• Main Authors: Peña-Suárez, Elsa, Muñiz, José, Campillo-Álvarez, Angela, Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo, García-Cueto, Eduardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Spain Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos (PSICODOC) 01-02-2013
• Subjects: Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Psychometrics; Quantitative psychology; Social Environment; Surveys and Questionnaires; Workplace
• ISSN: 0214-9915; 1886-144X
• DOI: 10.7334/psicothema2012.260

Organizational climate is the set of perceptions shared by workers who occupy the same workplace. The main goal of this study is to develop a new organizational climate scale and to determine its psychometric properties.
The sample consisted of 3,163 Health Service workers. A total of 88.7% of participants worked in hospitals, and 11.3% in primary care; 80% were women and 20% men, with a mean age of 51.9 years (SD= 6.28).
The proposed scale consists of 50 Likert-type items, with an alpha coefficient of 0.97, and an essentially one-dimensional structure. The discrimination indexes of the items are greater than 0.40, and the items show no differential item functioning in relation to participants' sex. A short version of the scale was developed, made up of 15 items, with discrimination indexes higher than 0.40, an alpha coefficient of 0.94, and its structure was clearly one-dimensional.
These results indicate that the new scale has adequate psychometric properties, allowing a reliable and valid assessment of organizational climate.