Team Roles at Work - Softcover

Meredith R Belbin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856178005 ISBN 13: 9781856178006

Publisher: taylor & francis, 2010

Synopsis

Belbin's renowned Team Role theory is a familiar concept for managers and management trainers across the world.

Following on from the best-selling Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail, this second edition of Team Roles at Work provides useful insights into how to apply the theory in everyday work situations.

This book explores the impact of Team Roles from interpersonal chemistry and managing difficult relationships, to cultivating effective leaders and shaping organizations.

Now fully updated, this second edition has new practical examples and summaries bringing this book up to date 17 years after its original publication. Drawing from Belbin's own practical experience it answers the queries that have arisen during those years. Further information accompanies the book on the Belbin website, www.belbin.com/books/books.htm including a free, downloadable, full-page summary of Team Roles with their icons, descriptions, strengths and allowable weaknesses.

Team Roles at Work is the best-selling, second book written by Meredith Belbin, designed for any manager who wants to understand the practical application of Team Role theory.

R. Meredith Belbin was formerly Chairman of the Industrial Training Research Unit. A founder Member of Belbin Associates, he is also Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of Henley Management College.

RELATED TITLES Belbin, Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail, 3e, ISBN: 978-1-85617-8075

* Complete descriptions of the Belbin Team Roles provide an understanding of how to analyse teams and then maximise output by using each team member's strengths
* Numerous real world case studies show how to apply the theory to real situations
* A highly practical book and online toolkit at www.Belbin.com demonstrates how to apply the Belbin team role method

About this title

From the Publisher:

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 theoriginal 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.

About the Author:

R. Meredith Belbin was formerly Chairman of the Industrial Training Research Unit. A founder Member of Belbin Associates, he is also Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of Henley Management College

About this edition

• Publisher: taylor & francis
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1856178005
• ISBN 13: 9781856178006
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160