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By
R Meredith Belbin, Belbin Associates
Description
How many problems at work arise from the way in which jobs are set up? Either people don't have a clear understanding of their duties
and responsibilities, spending time and energy disentangling them from those of their co-workers or they are hemmed in by job specifications
that allow no room for movement and initiative.
An alternative system is needed, where jobs can grow and develop: where communication
about the work can flow up as easily as down. Dr Belbin describes a radical approach incorporating colour-coding and information technology
derived from experiments now being undertaken in three countries. Workset is a new means of delivering greater efficiency in a dynamic
process that equally involves managers and jobholders.
Dr R. Meredith Belbin, regarded as the father of team-role theory for his widely-read
Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail and its successor Team Roles at Work, obtained his first and higher degree at Cambridge University.
Later, in a research, lecturing or consulting capacity, he has visited and worked in many countries. In 1988 he founded Belbin Associates
which produces Interplace, a computer-based Human Resource Management System, now used world-wide.
Audience
General management; business academics
Contents
Preface; Order and disorders; The true nature of a modern job; Reclassifying work: tasks versus responsibilities; 'So what's the job?';
Overcoming initial problems; Job casting and job briefing; Improving communications; Quantifying the way we work; Managing the feedback;
Creating a new culture; Fostering team empowerment; From competence to excellence; Team roles and colour codes; Managers and leaders
revisited; A way forward; A Glossary of Terms; An Audit of Existing Practices in Job-Setting; Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 115 pages, publication date: SEP-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4288-0
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4288-2
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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