Validation of the Team Factors Inventory in Brazilian Companies
Validation of the Team Factors Inventory in Brazilian Companies
Autor Correspondente: Fernando Antonio Prado Gimenez | [email protected]
Palavras-chave: creative leadership, entrepreneurship, creative team factors, reliability, validity
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Resumo Inglês:
The aim of this paper is to test the validity and reliability of a Portuguese version of the Team Factors
Inventory/TFI derived from the Creative Leadership Model. This inventory measures the propensity of a team
towards creative leadership and consists of a paper and pen measure with 37 items on a Likert-type scale. The
literature concerning creativity in organizational studies has focused mainly on the contribution the individual
makes to innovation and technical change. The model of Creative Leadership, on the other hand, has turned
attention to group behaviour and team management. The model has been recently proposed in England and there
are no literature reports on its application in a language other than English. The method involved a review of the
literature on creative leadership, backtranslation of the inventory, and data analysis through descriptive statistics,
hypotheses testing, factor analysis, and analysis of variance, using as control variables, sex, and type of
enterprise. The sample consisted of 115 respondents, with 73 owner-managers of high-tech incubated firms and
42 owner-managers of service firms. Analyses indicated that the translated version Portuguese of the inventory
reached satisfactory levels of validity and reliability. This means that the TFI may be applied in a cultural
context other than the original.
