Roles in a team - Blog 9

 

Roles in a team

                        Figure 1 - Importance of effective team management (Source: Naidoo, 2019)

Team management is important aspect in the organizations. Today, many organizations are trying to get the work done with the best management of the teams rather than the individual employees. Along with this fact, it has been recorded that the applications related in every case is more critical and important in better identification in the team effectiveness (Naidoo, 2019). There are different roles which are undertaking in the teams and these roles needs to have clear end in better and effective outcome in the operations.

There are different advantages of the team management and effective team management is very critical (Flores-Parra et al, 2018).

                                                              Figure 2 - Roles in team (Source: Rahmani et al, 2021)

Roles in teams are important to know and all these roles are highly available in the organizations which are providing the better insight in management of the activities. Along with this fact, Belbin have identified nine roles in the teams in three categories (Bednár & Ljudvigová 2020; Gutiérrez, et al., 2019). These three categories are People, Thinking and Action. Identification of the nine roles is important and needed for the effective team management (Rahmani et al, 2021).

1.      Plant – this is the role of creation of new ideas in the team and this category gives the innovative measures in the team.

2.      Resource investigator – this is the role of attracting and generating the opportunities and the facilities in managing the team works. Contacts also been attracted and applied in order to have better accelerations in the organizations.

3.      Co-Ordinator – this role is responsible for the creation of goals and the creation of decision making over the different applications and actions in the organization. With respective to these categories, this role is more critical.

4.      Shaper – this is the role who is driving the team into forward actions. The team is responsible for going forward and making necessary moves

5.      Team worker – this is the role who is providing the support and encouragement in the team work and provides the corporation in achieving final objective.

6.      Monitor Evaluator – this role is evaluating and monitoring the processes where the feedbacks are provided where necessary. It is very important to have this fact in line to get more specific applications.

7.      Implementer – this role is the main aspect in turning the ideas in to the applications and actions. It is highly recommended and needed to have successful implementer.

8.      Completer - this role is having attention to the details available and always trying to have the clear achievements.

9.      Specialist – this role is having the clear knowledge and skills relating to the applications in the team work.

Conclusion

Teams are important in the identifications of the success of the outcomes in the organizations. There are several roles which are applied in the teams and thus, it is important to understand these roles to manage better applications. Belbin has introduced nine roles in the teams and these are providing the better explanation of the different people in teams who are driving the success

References

Bednár, R. & Ljudvigová, I., 2020. Belbin team roles in a start-up team, s.l.: In SHS Web of Conferences (Vol. 83, p. 01002). EDP Sciences.

Flores-Parra, j. M. et al., 2018. Towards team formation using belbin role types and a social networks analysis approach, s.l.: In 2018 IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Conference (TEMSCON) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Gutiérrez, L., Flores, V., Keith, B. & Quelopana, 2019. Using the Belbin method and models for predicting the academic performance of engineering students, s.l.: Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 27(2), pp.500-509.

Naidoo, P., 2019. Perceptions of teachers and school management teams of the leadership roles of public school principals, s.l.: South African Journal of Education, 39(2).

Rahmani, F., Scott-Young, C., Tadayon, A. & van der Walt, J. D., 2021. Team composition in relational contracting (RC) in large infrastructure projects: a Belbin’s team roles model approach. Engineering, s.l.: Construction and Architectural Management.