title: Assessing organizational climate: psychometric properties of the CLIOR Scale.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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).
  
  
  RESULTS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results indicate that the new scale has adequate psychometric properties, allowing a reliable and valid assessment of organizational climate.
authors: Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. penaelsa@uniovi.es
authors: Elsa
authors: E
authors: Peña-Suárez
authors: José
authors: J
authors: Muñiz
authors: Angela
authors: A
authors: Campillo-Álvarez
authors: Eduardo
authors: E
authors: Fonseca-Pedrero
authors: Eduardo
authors: E
authors: García-Cueto
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace