Team role behaviour and task environment : An exploratory study of five organizations and their managers

Based on Belbin’s model of management team role behaviour and the theories on organizational environment, proposes that managers’ team role preferences are influenced by the immediate social context, that is, the organizational task environment. Analysing the task environments of five organizations and the team role preferences of 100 managers, finds significant support for the hypotheses that the task environmental dimensions differentiate the clusters of the preferences.