Team Roles at Work

by Meredith R. Belbin (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.40

  'A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role which is understood by other members. Members of a team seek out certain roles and they perform most effectively in the ones that are most natural to them.' Team Roles at Work is a follow-up to Belbin's highly successful book Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail . The nine team roles, now familiar to managers and management trainers all over the world, are explored further, adding value to the original team-role concepts. Operational strategies are laid out which provide ideas, techniques and a new range of information and advice which can be used to the organization's advantage. Team Roles at Work paves the way for all those in management education, including industrial trainers to put Belbin's seminal thinking on teams into practice. How to manage the self in a team? How to create working partnerships? How to recognize potential for the 'surprise' fit? How to encourage interdependence between members of a team? How the team should fit into the organization? This book shows you: how to manage the self in a team; how to create working partnerships; how to recognize potential for the 'surprise' fit; how to encourage interdependence between members of a team; and how the team should fit into the organization.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.25

  Written as a follow-up to his book, Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail , R. Meredith Belbin develops his ideas further, using feedback gained through the users of this work. The ways in which personalities are moulded by the roles played and the benefits of managing the two dimensional are explained. Members of a management team need to combine a team role with a functional role. Belbin has refined and identified ways by which, for example, ineligible people turn out to be suitable - a surprise fit - so that organizations can recruit a range of personnel to match their requirements. Initially, an overview of the development of team roles is given, ranging from formal job titles arranged in strict hierarchies to an interdependence and co-operation between members of the team. Various operational strategies are laid out which provide ideas and techniques that can be learned to advantage. The political aspects of team role management are also discussed in the light of newly acquired understanding and experience.