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Belbin’s Team Roles Made Simple

A team is not just a group of persons. It’s a system of dynamically interactive interdependent individuals,whose performance and behaviours not only affect each other but also tell on the performance of the group as a unit as well as  the overall output of the organisation.   Dr.Meredith Belbin, an English  Researcher and management consultant proposed the concept of "Team Roles" in 1981. He proposed nine team roles in three categories depending on the functionality in working situations.     According to Belbin, a team role is a tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate with others in a particular way.  Dr.Belbin, has stated that each member of a team, assume any one of the nine team roles or a combination of them. The composition of team roles has a influence on the performance of the team. Belbin categorised team roles into action oriented, people oriented , and thought oriented team roles, each group has three team roles.    Eac...
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