Designing Project Teams

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The most common characteristics of Danish companies are, that for each project, they are composing a new team. The composition of project teams are based on the employee availability for the project. That means, that the project teams are randomly formed. Ensuring the right team, is now an important managerial activity for project managers. The dilemma is often that a project manager does not know where to find the expertise and right person within the organization.[1]

As lunching and building the project teams, is the most important stages of starting up a project, my research in this article is to find out how Belbin’s team development concept will help to ensure the right teams in projects. Belbin team development is a tool that makes it possible to get an over-view of where team members are assigned optimal roles. How it will be advantageous to combine the individual teams in relation to current project and departements. It sheds light on, whether each team need specific roles to solve a given task optimally.[2]

By picking and matching high-performance teams, the project manager will ensure a good team and increase the overall efficiency and opportunity to experiencing the positive effects that he had hoped for. [3]

References

[1] Cohen S, L. G. (1994,). The effectivness of self-managing teams: a quasi-experiment. Human Reæations , 47: 13-43.

[2] Belbin, R. M. (2010). Team Roles at Work. Routledge.

[3] Campion M, p. E. (1996). Relations between work team characteristics and eddectiveness: A replication and extension. Personnel Psychology , 49; 429-53.