As a manager, you work alongside a variety of colleagues, ranging from different levels in the workplace hierarchy. You will have a line manager whom you yourself report to (often this is the business owner or else someone in management who liaises with managers across all branches if it is a setting with more than one establishment); as well as colleagues who report to you and for whom you are the line manager. You will also of …show more content…
One of the first, and perhaps most well-known, theories is that of Meredith Belbin and his team role theory. Belbin believes that there within a functioning team there are nine various team roles that are significant for most team’s success. These nine roles can be used to identify people’s behavioural strengths and weaknesses in the workplace. It is often the case that people will identify with two or three team roles and feel most comfortable with these, but they can manage to cover a few other roles if necessary, while the remaining roles they prefer not to take on at all. (Belbin Associates,