BELBIN'S SELF-PERCEPTION INVENTORY

Belbin's Self-Perception Inventory

Belbin's Self-Perception Inventory

Introduction

In the 1970s, Dr Meredith Belbin and his research team at Henley Management College set about observing teams, with a view to finding out where and how these differences come about (Belbin, 1981). They wanted to control the dynamics of teams to discover if - and how - problems could be pre-empted and avoided. As the research progressed, the research revealed that the difference between success and failure for a team was not dependent on factors such as intellect, but more on behavior. The research team began to identify separate clusters of behavior, each of ...