Roles’ Dynamics Inside a Team: Between Facts and Perception

Focusing on the teams’ dynamics, the main aim of this study is to develop a multidimensional framework for analyzing the roles’ dynamics inside teams by combining three complementary axes: task-social, perceptual-factual and attraction - rejection. Based on a complex sociometric analysis, this case study revealed the presence of a contamination effect between the social and the task evaluation of teammates’ positions and a strong impact of the intra-group competition level upon how members’ positions in the team are evaluated. Given the similarities between the sport and the business field, the results of this study can be extrapolated beyond sports’ borders.