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The Team Climate Inventory (TCI): A psychometric test on a Taiwanese sample of work groups. / Tseng, Hsu-Min; Liu, F-C; West, Michael.
In: Small Group Research, Vol. 40, 2009, p. 465-482.

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Tseng H-M, Liu F-C, West M. The Team Climate Inventory (TCI): A psychometric test on a Taiwanese sample of work groups. Small Group Research. 2009;40:465-482. doi: 10.1177/1046496409334145

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Tseng, Hsu-Min ; Liu, F-C ; West, Michael. / The Team Climate Inventory (TCI): A psychometric test on a Taiwanese sample of work groups. In: Small Group Research. 2009 ; Vol. 40. pp. 465-482.

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