Many psychologists have found models used to describe team dynamics.
Personality type (Myers Briggs, Disc, Herrmann Brain Dominance) recognise how the different preferences of team members affect their interactions and team performance. Human Elements (Schutz) recognise the affinity between people using behaviours of inclusion, control, openness, and how those relate to inner feelings of competence, likeability, significance, …show more content…
Members may adopt different roles at different times during the group’s life-cycle.
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For example, White & Lippett belived that there are three styles of leadership: autocratic (when the leaders takes absolutely control of the group and says what needs to happen, but unfortunately will tend to distance themselves from the actual work of the group; democratic (this leader runs the group as a democracy, offering choices and allowing the group members to decide how they wish to work in order to best complete the aims and objectives of the group) and The Laissez-Faire (leader gives complete freedom to individual and group decisions and rarely suggests or attempts to direct the group in any particular way).
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Team Roles
In order to figure out the mechanism that makes a group operate it is necessary to look at the roles of the individual members of the group. Meredith Belbin’s identified nine group roles, or clusters of behaviour, which have been categorised as either function (or task-oriented) or cerebral (people-oriented), fitting with the task and relationship roles of leadership as described above.
Here are these team roles:
• Shaper - a dynamic, outgoing member of the team; they are often argumentative, provocative and impatient. They push the group to decision making,