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The structure of Belbin's team roles
Author(s) -
Fisher S. G.,
Hunter T. A.,
Macrosson W. D. K.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of occupational and organizational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0963-1798
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1998.tb00677.x
Subject(s) - team role inventories , psychology , harmony (color) , task (project management) , team composition , team effectiveness , social psychology , teamwork , applied psychology , knowledge management , management , computer science , art , economics , visual arts
Belbin's original management team model requires the presence of eight individuals, each of whom shows a facility for a particular role. Because many teams in industry have fewer than eight members, the issue of secondary team roles is important. A study was undertaken of data collected from UK managers ( N = 1796) which showed that team roles fall into two general categories and which we labelled ‘task’ and ‘relationship’. These categories, which reveal the likely secondary team role for any given individual, were also shown to predict the degree of harmony and productiveness of dyads within a given team.