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Dr Meredith Belbin

Biography

Meredith Belbin graduated in Classics and Psychology at Clare College, Cambridge and gained his second degree for his doctoral dissertation on Older Workers in Industry. After training at the Institute of Engineering Production at Birmingham and taking up a Research Fellowship at Cranfield, he became a management consultant, operating in a large range of industries. Later he returned to Cambridge to become Chair of the Industrial Training Research Unit; Director of the Employment Development Unit; the first lay member in Cambridgeshire of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Panel on the Appointment of Magistrates, and Senior Associate of the Institute of Management Studies in Cambridge. He has of late been appointed Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of Henley Management College.

Author

As an author, his volumes include Management Teams: Why They Succeed Or Fail (1981), The Job Promoters (1990), Team Roles At Work (1993), The Coming Shape Of Organization (1996), Changing The Way We Work (1997), Beyond the Team (2000) and Managing without Power

Meredith Belbin biography, theory and books

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August 15, 2024

Dr. Meredith Belbin (1926) is a British researcher best known for his ground breaking research in the field of team effectiveness. He is a Professor and researcher at Henley Business School in Oxfordshire, England. Meredith Belbin became world wide famous with Team Roles theory.

Meredith Belbin biography

Belbin’s early years

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Meredith Belbin was thirteen years old. With his family, he lived in an area that later became known as Bomb Alley, in Sevenoaks. He, along with his mother and sisters, refused to leave the area during an evacuation.

He was keen to complete his schooling at the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe. He received excellent marks from the headmaster there.

Meredith later suggested that it is best for team members to use and develop their strengths as much as possible, something that he already experienced during this school period: his poor understanding of mathematics was softened by his excellence in Latin.

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Meredith Belbin

English researcher and management consultant

Raymond Meredith Belbin (born 4 June 1926) is a British researcher and management consultant best known for his work on management teams. He is a visiting professor and Honorary Fellow of Henley Management College in Oxfordshire, England.

Early life and work

Belbin took both his first and second degrees, Classics and then Psychology, at Clare College, Cambridge. His first appointment after his doctorate was as a research fellow at Cranfield College (now Cranfield School of Management at Cranfield University). His early research focused mainly on older workers in industry. He returned to Cambridge and joined the Industrial Training Research Unit (ITRU) where his wife Eunice was director and he subsequently became chairman. Belbin combined this job with acting as OECD consultant running successful demonstration projects in Sweden, Austria, UK and the United States.[3]

It was while at ITRU, in the late 1960s, that Belbin was invited to carry out research at what was then called the Administrative

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