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Dedication to team management research prompted Team Management Systems (TMS) to establish a research arm called the Institute of Team Management Studies. The Institute of Team Management Studies (ITMS) has collected comprehensive research data on over 590,000 respondents from more than 190 countries worldwide in more 20 languages.

A rigorous research program is undertaken at the Institute and the results of reliability, validity, and comparative studies are published regularly.

Contact us if you would like access to any of our research articles or would like to discuss our extensive research material available to members of the public and accredited TMS practitioners.

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    from Location example | 2025-02-24

    2020 TMP Norm Data Update

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    | 2018-07-04

    The Value of Research

    The Sydney Morning Herald recently published an article by Caitlin Fitzsimmons commenting on ‘personality tests’, in particular the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The article criticised those instruments that lacked research, those purporting to identify an innate unchanging personality preference and those used as the basis for recruitment.

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  • Developing Tomorrow's Leaders

    The Team Management Systems Research Manual contains lots of information that can help you with organizational development. this article focuses on providing data-driven insights into the characteristics needed for the leader of tomorrow.

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  • Education & Retail: An industry case study in differences

    Industry work preferences allow us to understand basic characteristics of groups in the workplace. This can help us understand how best to present information and to be in tune with current industry trends.

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  • The Effect of Age and Gender on Work Preferences

    Gender AnalysisDifferences between men and women has long been a topic of debate. Indeed within the Team Management Systems (TMS) network, there have been many requests for data on gender differences. In response to these requests we have analyzed the worldwide database of over 519,000 respondents to determine what differences, if any, exist between males and females.

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