ACCA Applied Knowledge · Business and Technology · Team formation, development and management
Belbin referred to the weaknesses associated with each team role as:
Belbin called them allowable weaknesses. Each team role has typical weaknesses that come with its strengths, and team members should tolerate them rather than expect them to be removed. Process losses is a different group-dynamics concept.
- AAllowable weaknessesCorrect
- BFatal flaws
- CRole conflicts
- DProcess losses
Explanation
Belbin used the term 'allowable weaknesses' for the weaknesses that normally accompany a strength in a given role and which a team should tolerate. 'Process losses' is a term from group dynamics, not Belbin's model, and the other terms are not Belbin's.
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