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Clima para aprendizagem em um contexto organizacional é a percepção compartilhada entre os empregados sobre políticas e práticas organizacionais que têm o objetivo de facilitar, recompensar e apoiar os comportamentos de aprendizagem. O presente estudo teve como objetivo traduzir e adaptar uma medida tridimensional de clima para aprendizagem, bem como avaliar indicadores de validade desse instrumento por meio de Análise Fatorial Exploratória. Após tradução da escala e validação por juízes, o instrumento, em formato eletrônico, foi divulgado em redes sociais e obteve 293 respostas válidas. A análise fatorial demonstrou uma estrutura satisfatória de três fatores, com bons índices de fidedignidade: facilitação da aprendizagem (alpha de Cronbach=0,83); valorização da aprendizagem (alpha de Cronbach=0,90); e evitação de erros (alpha de Cronbach=0,85). As cargas fatoriais variaram entre 0,60 e 0,97. Esses resultados indicam que a escala de Clima para Aprendizagem possui características psicométricas adequadas para seu uso em diagnósticos organizacionais e pesquisas acadêmicas sobre aprendizagem no trabalho. Assim, no campo prático, o uso dessa escala pode contribuir ao fornecer insumos para intervenções que visem a propiciar ambientes organizacionais favoráveis à aprendizagem. Já no âmbito acadêmico, a escala pode ajudar a compreender o fenômeno da aprendizagem dentro de organizações de trabalho por meio de estudos empíricos quantitativos.

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify the explanatory power of the affective, cognitive and evaluative aspects of identity with work teams in predicting team effectiveness, represented by the variables: satisfaction with the team, manager-assessed team performance and objective indicators of performance.


Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected from 131 work teams of a Brazilian public organization with units in all state capitals of the country. Work team identity scale, the work team satisfaction scale, the team performance scale and objective performance indicators collected based on the achievement of the goals set for the units that make up the organization were used. To test the predictive model, three regressions were conducted using the stepwise method.


Findings
Regression analysis results showed that the evaluative dimension explains about 6% of the performance assessment given by managers, whereas the affective dimension explains 63% of the satisfaction with work teams. No significant results were found for the objective performance indicators.


Originality/value
The observed findings demonstrate the pertinence of understanding the work team identity as a collective and multidimensional phenomenon, as well as the contribution of its different components in explaining variables that represent effectiveness.

ABSTRACT Purpose: To provide evidence of the validity of a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Error Management Culture Scale. Originality/value: Errors are pervasive and cannot be entirely prevented, so it is essential to manage them so as to avoid the worst negative consequences. Error management culture is a set of organizational practices related to communicating about errors, sharing error knowledge, helping in error situations and detecting and handling errors quickly. There was no Brazilian questionnaire for measuring this concept, despite the importance of understanding how we learn from mistakes. Design/methodology/approach: The Brazilian Error Management Culture Scale was obtained by translation and back-translation procedures. An online and pencil and paper survey were conducted. A sample of 233 employees responded to the 17 items of the scale using five-point scales. Data on demographic and professional variables were also collected. Findings: Exploratory factor analysis and parallel analysis indicated a one-factor structure, but it can also be represented in terms of four facets of error management. The factor loadings ranged from 0.35 to 0.82 and Cronbach's reliability coefficient was 0.94, which is consistent with the original study and with other studies using the scale. The results suggested the Brazilian scale will be useful in research and diagnosis. Future studies are needed to confirm these findings in different samples and its predictive validity should be tested to extend the evidence.