Management Teams

Why They Succeed or Fail

R. Meredith Belbin

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997, 171 pages

ISBN: 0-7506-2676-3

Keywords: Management, Organizational Development

Last modified: July 24, 2021, 5:39 p.m.

An understanding of the importance of team-building will always be a major factor in the successful growth and development of businesses. Management Teams is one of the most widely-read, imaginative and influential books in this vital area of management research. Over the past decade, the team roles which Dr Belbin identifies in the book have become part of everyday language in organizations all over the world.

All kinds of teams and team behaviours are covered, including:

  • The Apollo syndrome
  • Creativity
  • Leading teams
  • Improving unsuccessful teams
  • Winning teams
  • Team size and physical environment
  • Designing a team
  • Teams in public affairs

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 achieving results by getting the best from their key personnel.

  1. A Study of Teams: How It All Began
  2. The Apollo Syndrome
  3. Teams Containing Similar Personalities
  4. Creativity In The Team
  5. Team Leadership
  6. Key Team-roles
  7. Unsuccessful Teams
  8. Winning Teams
  9. Ideal Team Size
  10. Features of Teamsmen
  11. Designing a Team
  12. Teams in Public Affairs
  • A Self-Perception Inventory
  • Glossary
  • Further Reading

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Management Teams

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Excellent ********** (10 out of 10)

Last modified: May 21, 2007, 3:12 a.m.

You need to read Belbin. If you don't, you just doesn't understand what you're doing.

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