This week’s topics
Team Dynamics and Organisational Value
- Characteristics of high-performing teams
- Belbin's team role theory
- Impact on service consistency
- Interdepartmental synergy and guest satisfaction
- Belbin's Team Role Model
- Lecture 58: Building High-Performance Teams: The Rocket Model
- Webinar: An Introduction to Belbin Team Roles: Theory and Application
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Describe the characteristics of effective teams.
- 3.2 Explain the importance to a tourism and hospitality business of effective team work.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe the characteristics of effective teams.
Study materials
Videos
- Belbin's Team Role Model · YouTube · Galton College · 20 min · for registered students
- Webinar: An Introduction to Belbin Team Roles: Theory and Application · YouTube · Belbin Team Roles HQ · 45 min · for registered students
- Understanding team dynamics with MBTI · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 61 min · for registered students
- Belbin's Team Roles For Beginners · YouTube · Dr Hayley Stainton | Tourism Teacher · 10 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Principles of Management, ch. 13: Managing Groups and Teams · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 496–530 · for registered students
- Organizational Behavior, ch. 10: Understanding and Managing Work Teams · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 295–316 · for registered students
- Organizational Behavior, ch. 9: Managing Groups and Teams · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 357–402 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.