Product Description

Meredith Belbin's work on teams has become part of everyday language in organizations all over the world.

All kinds of teams and team behaviours are covered. At the end of the book is a self-perception inventory so that readers can match their own personalities to particular team roles.

Management Teams is required reading for managers concerned with achieving results by getting the best from their key personnel.

*One of the most widely read, imaginative and influential books on this vital area of management research

*Classic title now containing range of mini case-studies of Belbin's theories in action

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49100 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
'One of the most imaginative and original pieces of research in management.... An understanding of the importance of team-building will continue to be a major factor in the successful growth and development of enterprises'
Professor Thomas Kempner, Henley Management College

About the Author
By R Meredith Belbin

Customer Reviews

Building an effective team? - here's the only book you need
Before I read this book, I thought the secret to success as a Managing Director was to surround myself with people just like me (yes, I was that arrogant). Those of you who know the book will recognise a Super Plant when you see one...

This book eloquently outlines just what you need to do to get it right first time. I've dipped into it time after time over the last fifteen years (I'm here buying my third or fourth copy - I keep giving them away), and can well understand why it continues to be a reference work. It will teach you how to put together the right people for a Board, a management team, or just a small project group. You'll find yourself making sure you've got a 'completer-finisher' in there, and you'll use the techniques from this book to get it right first time.

Some of the content can be heavy going and somewhat boring, but the best antidote for this is to jump straight to the tests to assess yourself. Then a light will go on and you'll realise it's not just talk - this stuff actually makes sense so it's worth wading through.

Highly recommended - but it loses one star for its somewhat plodding style here and there.

Interesting, Well-written, Benchmark Text
A must for anyone interested in Team Behaviour/Psychology at work. This is one of the few Management texts I've managed to read end-to-end for ages.

group working
I found this book very informative and helpful in understanding group workings. Esp. belbin's team roles, enabling you to identify your own and work upon your strenths from this.