The document discusses team role theory and its connection to multiple intelligences theory. It describes the 9 different team roles and their associated goals. It suggests that people have different types of intelligence and team roles allow members to support each other. Finally, it provides an example of how the economics department at a university could utilize different team roles and intelligences to more efficiently deliver education to students.

1. Theo Teja

2. Team role theory overview
• The goals are to increase efficiency, lower average total cost, increase profit.
• Plant (PL) : creative and more of a problem solver.
• Monitor (ME) : critical and objective.
• Coordinator (CO) : spreading the job role for each member.
• Resource Investigator (RI) : providing information.
• Implementer (IMP) : strategic planning.
• Complete Finisher (CF) : proof checking and polishing the job.
• Team Worker (TW) : helps team to gel and completing work on behalf of the team.
• Shaper (SH) : driving the team to keep moving.
• Specialist (SP) : providing help due to deep knowledge of the key area.

3. Connection Between Multiple Intelligences and Team Role
Theory.
• MI theory gives 8 types of intelligences, which are : linguistic, logical-mathematical,
spatial, bodily-kinaesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal,
and naturalist intelligence.
• It is believed that different people will have different type of intelligence with
each other. With these different intelligences members of a group can support
each other through the team role theory. This will lead to different roles created
in the team.
• So in a way, team role theory has been supported by the MI theory naturally.

4. Possible Correlations
• Plant  spatial, musical, (linguistic)
• Monitor  linguistic, interpersonal, logical-mathematical
• Coordinator  linguistic, spatial, bodily- kinaesthetic
• Resource investigator  linguistic, (naturalist)
• Implementer  intrapersonal, logical-mathematical
• Complete finisher  interpersonal, spatial, logical-mathematical
• Team worker  naturalist, interpersonal, logical-mathematical
• Shaper  linguistic, interpersonal
• Specialist  logical-mathematical, naturalist

5. Application on Economics in University
•  increase the efficiency of learning and understanding
• These methods can be applied when learning is done within a group.
Belbin mentioned that theory would be at optimum when there are
around 4 members/roles in a group.
• So, the whole economics department for example, it is considered as
a team which objective is to deliver education to student.

6. • Eg.
• Coordinator  head of department
• Specialist  lecturers
• Shapers  tutors
• Implementer  staffs
• The whole combination of roles should be balanced.

7. • To reach the objective, this can also be linked to the multiple
intelligences, as MI can bring better outcome for students as the
education will be more easily understood as they have different
intelligences.
• Gardner believes that bringing balance in educating student (by
considering every aspects of MI) will bring better level of
understanding in the short run and long run.