The “Belbin” team role inventory: Reinterpreting reliability estimates

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 529-536

  Swailes, Stephen ^a   McIntyre Bhatty, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Reliability; Statistics; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986132079     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683940210439432     Document Type: Article

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