The experiment was designed along scientific lines with It contained all the principal variables that typify the problems of decision. Which factors influenced team failure or success. Over a period of ten years, Belbin carried out extended observational research to determine Meredith Belbin first began studying teams at Henley Management College in the 1970s. Belbin himself asserts that the Team Rolesĭr. An individual may and often doesĮxhibit strong tendencies towards multiple roles. They express behavioural traits from 9 different Team Roles. People into one of 16 personality types, the Belbin Inventory scores people on how strongly Unlike the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which is a psychometric instrument used to sort TheĪssessment includes 360-degree feedback from observers as well as the individual's ownĮvaluation of their behaviour, and contrasts how they see their behaviour versus how their It is therefore a behavioural tool, subject to change, and not a psychometric instrument. The Belbin Team Role Inventory assesses how an individual behaves in a team environment.