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. 2019 Jun 11;10:1322. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01322

Table 2.

Team role taxonomy (Burke et al., 2016).

Team role Description
Social roles
     Contribution seeker Behaviors that seek to ensure that all members are contributing to the task, are recognized for their contribution, and feel their contribution is valued.
     Team builder Behaviors that seek to improve and maintain the social structure, motivation, and team well-being. This includes sub-roles: harmonizer, motivator, and nurturer.
     Entertainer Behaviors which serve to maintain cohesion and emotional well-being through humor and other active public forms of artistic expression targeted at the team. Subdimension: jokester.
     Attention seeker Behaviors that serve to consistently call attention to oneself. This attention seeking is self-initiated.
     Negativist Behaviors which reflect an explicit negative outlook, are toxic in nature, and serve to degrade the social emotional environment within the team. This includes sub-roles: complainer and aggressive arguer.
Task roles
     Team player Behaviors which reflect a willingness to pitch in wherever is needed and being prepared to help. This includes sub-roles: task completer, mission support, and social loafer (negative instance).
     Evaluator Behaviors aimed at questioning and ensuring the best use of team ideas and information. This includes sub-roles: critic and analyzer/synthesizer.
     Information provider Behaviors which serve to transmit information within the team serving to create shared mental models. This includes the sub-roles of clarifier, facilitator, note taker, power seeker (negative role).
     Boundary spanner Behaviors which represent someone who is managing the relationship of the team with outside entities as well as gathering/sending information outside the team to bring back in.
     Visionary/innovator Behaviors which are oriented toward coming up with new and creative ideas and approaches to the task.
     Coordinator Leadership-oriented behaviors focused on the processes involved in task completion. The includes sub-roles: team leader, project manager.