Management Teams

by Meredith Belbin and R Meredith Belbin

This text examines the importance of team-building to the successful growth and development of businesses. It is aimed at managers concerned with achieving results by getting the best from their key... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750626763
• ISBN13: 9780750626767
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An Essential Book for Building Collaborative Teams

This extraordinary book was written by Dr. Belbin nearly 20 years ago and remains in a class by itself in providing a useful theory for building and operating effective decision-making teams. Nowhere else will the reader find a set of principles that are so soundly based on direct evaluation of competing teams, explain so much of effective and ineffective team behavior which otherwise confounds explanation, and which is so beautifully and succinctly written.While Belbin's title suggests this book is simply about business management, the content of the book is of much wider applicability. This book is a valuable, perhaps indispensable, source for anyone involved in collaborative endeavors. The book would be useful if it merely answered the question "Why do collaborative (creative, decision-making) teams succeed or fail?" Belbin goes much further than that. He tells us how to proactively build teams that are predisposed to succeed and, equally importantly, how to adopt strategies that will lead to success on the part of teams not so fortunately constructed. I have found this book very useful in building, and teaching the building, of software product development teams, and heartily recommend it for that purpose.

Using Belbins team roles

This book is a must for all trainers in the HR arena. It explains the background to Belbins research, it explains the roles in detail and goes on to explain what the roles mean and how to use them to optimise team performance.The language Belbin uses is friendly and easy to read and so the book is ideal material for trainers and students alike.A classic book which should be included on every HR Trainers bookshelf.

Matching personality with tasks, and vice versa: the prequel

This is really the story behind Belbin's Team Roles. The book show how he, through painstaking research for over twenty years, discovered nine different styles of work (which he calls "Team Roles") that are typical of individuals in teams.His team role theory is fascinating, and has been shown to correspond with Cattell's 16PF and with the Big 5 personality taxonomy (see e.g. John's chapter in Pervin's Hanbook of Personality).His ideas on the problems with "perfect fits" in organizations and how to discover "surprise fits" are very ingenous. Belbin perhaps spends too many words on his discoveries, but they are good words.