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. |