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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, working in a wide range of industries. Later he returned to Cambridge to become Chairman 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 is currently External Examiner for the Department of Engineering Management in the University of Bristol, and has recently been appointed Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of Henley Management College.

Author

As an author, his books 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 (2001). His latest book, The Evolution of Human Behaviour and its Bearing on the Future, is also now available.

Consultant

In the capacity of consultant, Dr Belbin has advised the OECD, the US Department of Labor, the Commission of the EEC and many manufacturing companies and public service organisations. He is currently a Partner in Belbin Associates and active on the international lecturing circuit.