1. Belbin Team Roles

The inventory is protected by Belbin's copyright and cannot be reproduced in any form. Additionally, it is not normed, lacks the Specialist role and the benefit of feedback from colleagues, and does not offer Team Role feedback. Much early research is based upon this now obsolete version of the inventory. In the initial research, eight team-role behavioural styles were identified -- Chairman, Shaper, Plant, Monitor-Evaluator, Company Worker, Resource Investigator, Team Worker, and Completer-Finisher. The current schema has been refined to include a ninth style -- Specialist—and in addition has renamed the Chairman behavioural style Co-ordinator and the Company Worker style Implementer (probably more for reasons of 'political correctness' rather than any identified changes in behaviour of people in these classifications). Belbin now administers the refined Belbin Team Inventory via e-interplace, a computerised system which scores and norms the data to produce feedback reports for individuals, teams, groups and jobs. Meredith Belbin argues that the optimum size for a team is 4 people.

Belbin Team Roles

I should add that Team Workers are supposed to be cooperative, mild, perceptive and diplomatic. Roger had assured us that they promote team spirit, raise moral and help people to cooperate. Anyway, at this point Mike, revealed as a Monitor Evaluator, who recently split with Michelle, shouted, 'I'm fed up with your childishness and I'm fed up with this stupid company and all this pratting about. Why can't we just write software the way we used to?' Mike stormed off to personnel and promptly resigned. In the corridor he met Guy with a plate of Hobnobs. Key locator.

The Belbin Team Role model was devised in the 1970’s by Dr Meredith Belbin. The original Self Perception Inventory, often referred to as the Belbin test or questionnaire. The Belbin Team Inventory is a behavioural test, also called the Belbin Self-Perception Inventory, Belbin Team Role Inventory, BSPI or BTRI. Understanding Belbin's Team Roles Model. Belbin identified nine team roles and he categorized those roles into three groups: Action Oriented, People Oriented.