Changing the Way We Work

by Belbin,R Meredith

• ISBN13: 9780750642880
• ISBN10: 0750642882
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-10-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Dr. R. Meredith Belbin, regarded as the father of team-role theory obtained his first and higher degree at Cambridge University.

Table of 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.