Table 1 Stepwise procedure for the development of the Erlangen Team Cohesion at Work Scale

Step 1

- Comprehensive review of the literature

- Generation of an initial item pool

Step 2

- Expert rating according to comprehensibility, relevance and adequacy

- Generation of a pilot version

Step 3

- Testing the pilot version in a sample of adult nurses

Step 4

- Statistical testing: Item analysis, exploration of factors structure and reduction of item count, testing of psychometric properties (reliability, validity)

- Generation of final version