Belbin’s Team Role Balance and Team Effectiveness in Community Mental Health Teams in an Area of Northwest Ireland: Implications for Leadership
Abstract
:1. Introduction
Team Roles and Belbin’s Team Role Model
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Design, Setting, Sample
2.2. Measurements/Scales
- (a)
- Demographics: data have been collected on the following demographics: age, gender, profession, years of experience, and team tenure.
- (b)
- Team effectiveness scale: Twenty items reflecting the seven dimensions of effectiveness in CMHTs (see also literature review above). The items are rated on a five-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree). Some of the items are worded negatively and for them the scoring is reversed. Higher sores indicate more effective teams [6].
- (c)
- Team Roles scale: Belbin Team Roles Self-Perception Inventory (SPI) [16]. The SPI includes seven sections, and each section comprises eight sentences. Participants need to distribute a total of 10 among the sentences while selecting which sentences best describe their behavior. Points cannot be allocated to more than four sentences. The older version of SPI was used for this study as there are more empirical data for it and more research enabling comparisons with previous studies. Furthermore, its psychometrics have been investigated extensively. An individual’s primary role is considered the role with the highes6 score, and the secondary role is the role with the second highest score.
2.3. Procedure
2.4. Ethics
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Statistics
3.1.1. Demographics
3.1.2. Team Effectiveness Scale
3.1.3. Belbin’s Primary and Secondary Roles
3.2. Bivariate Statistics
3.3. Multilevel Analysis (Hierarchical)
3.4. Power Calculations
4. Discussion
4.1. Implications for Leadership
4.2. Limitations and Strengths of the Study
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Profession | n (%) | Age Mean (S.D) | Gender Female (%) | Team Tenure in Years Mean (S.D) | Years of Experience Mean (S.D) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nurse | 55 (51.9%) | 46.51(8.97) | 36 (65) | 5.01 (4.57) | 19.78 (9.68) |
Nurse (student) | 5 (4.7%) | 19.80 (1.79) | 5 (100) | 0.29 (0.50) | 1.80 (1.48) |
Doctor | 22 (20.8%) | 42.18 (10.83) | 5 (22.7) | 3.19 (4.66) | 14.77 (11.27) |
OT | 3 (2.8%) | 45.00 (0.00) | 0 (0) | 5.06 (5.49) | 15.67 (4.04) |
Social worker | 6 (5.7%) | 51.50 (8.55) | 4 (66.7) | 6.17 (5.67) | 20.33 (4.97) |
Secretary | 9 (8.5%) | 48.78 (12.07) | 9 (100) | 5.03 (4.64) | 19.22 (11.09) |
Psychologist | 6 (5.7%) | 42.17 (8.11) | 4(66.7) | 3.69 (2.29) | 15.50 (10.43) |
Total | 106(100%) | 44.54 (10.94) | 63 (59.4) | 4.40 (4.55) | 17.52 (10.33) |
I.W | T.R | P.C | E.I | E.C | C.S | R.P | T.E.S | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | 21.42 | 12.65 | 12.47 | 7.92 | 8.42 | 12.25 | 8.16 | 83.30 |
SD | 2.92 | 1.67 | 1.86 | 1.71 | 1.47 | 2.17 | 1.70 | 10.75 |
Median | 21.00 | 13.00 | 12.00 | 8.00 | 9.00 | 12.00 | 8.00 | 83.00 |
Min | 12.00 | 9.00 | 8.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 4.00 | 51.00 |
Max | 25.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 10.00 | 10.00 | 15.00 | 10.00 | 100.00 |
Range | 13.00 | 6.00 | 7.00 | 7.00 | 7.00 | 9.00 | 6.00 | 49.00 |
Max score | 25 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 100 |
TES | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | 75.56 | 83.86 | 82.71 | 77.15 | 90.50 | 89.05 | 88.71 | 90.88 |
SD | 8.15 | 5.24 | 11.13 | 14.88 | 5.25 | 7.32 | 6.92 | 7.83 |
Significant level | *** E, *** F, * G, ** H | none | none | * E, * D, * H | *** A, * D | *** A, * D | * A | ** A, * D |
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Primary role | Company worker | 9 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 3 |
Chairman | 0 * | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
Shaper | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Plant | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Resource investigator | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Monitor/evaluator | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Team worker | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
Completer/finisher | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Total (n) | 25 | 7 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 8 | |
Secondary role | Company worker | 4 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Chairman | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Shaper | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
Plant | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Resource investigator | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Monitor/evaluator | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
Team worker | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |
Completer/finisher | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
Total (n) | 25 | 7 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 8 |
Parameter | Estimate * | Std. Error | df | t | Sig. | 95% C. I | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lower Bound | Upper Bound | ||||||
Intercept | 80.34 | 3.94 | 98 | 20.39 | 0.001 | 72.52 | 88.16 |
Nurse | 6.83 | 4.18 | 98 | 1.63 | 0.105 | −1.47 | 15.14 |
Student Nurse | 9.08 | 5.88 | 98 | 1.54 | 0.126 | −2.59 | 20.75 |
Doctor | 10.99 | 4.43 | 98 | 2.48 | 0.015 | 2.19 | 19.78 |
Occupational Therapist | 0.66 | 6.79 | 98 | 0.10 | 0.922 | −12.82 | 14.15 |
Social worker | 9.84 | 5.59 | 98 | 1.76 | 0.082 | −1.25 | 20.94 |
Secretary | 10.12 | 5.10 | 98 | 1.98 | 0.050 | 0.00 | 20.24 |
Psychologist | 0.00 | ||||||
Imbalance Index | −2.01 | 0.40 | 98 | −4.99 | <0.001 | −2.80 | −1.21 |
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Adamis, D.; Krompa, G.M.; Rauf, A.; Mulligan, O.; O’Mahony, E. Belbin’s Team Role Balance and Team Effectiveness in Community Mental Health Teams in an Area of Northwest Ireland: Implications for Leadership. Merits 2023, 3, 604-614. https://doi.org/10.3390/merits3030036
Adamis D, Krompa GM, Rauf A, Mulligan O, O’Mahony E. Belbin’s Team Role Balance and Team Effectiveness in Community Mental Health Teams in an Area of Northwest Ireland: Implications for Leadership. Merits. 2023; 3(3):604-614. https://doi.org/10.3390/merits3030036
Chicago/Turabian StyleAdamis, Dimitrios, Georgia Maria Krompa, Abdul Rauf, Owen Mulligan, and Edmond O’Mahony. 2023. "Belbin’s Team Role Balance and Team Effectiveness in Community Mental Health Teams in an Area of Northwest Ireland: Implications for Leadership" Merits 3, no. 3: 604-614. https://doi.org/10.3390/merits3030036
APA StyleAdamis, D., Krompa, G. M., Rauf, A., Mulligan, O., & O’Mahony, E. (2023). Belbin’s Team Role Balance and Team Effectiveness in Community Mental Health Teams in an Area of Northwest Ireland: Implications for Leadership. Merits, 3(3), 604-614. https://doi.org/10.3390/merits3030036