ABSTRACT
People in teams have not been brought together merely to engage in social relationships: they are there to perform a body of work. This will have a bearing on the sort of roles they take up. Work roles may be defined as the mix of tasks and responsibilities undertaken by individuals or executed within teams. Team roles signify the contributions that individuals are typically disposed to make in their working relationships: they are part of the input to the job. Work roles, by focusing on the demands of the job, in a language designed for ease of communication, offer the prospect that the inputs and outputs are brought together in a more equable balance.
