Understanding Different Roles within an Engineering Team and Personal Responsibility

Understanding different
roles within an engineering
team and application as
personal responsibility

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Belbin Role Test Discuss your primary and secondary team roles ............................................3
Discuss your potential strength and weakness within an engineering team...............................3
Reflect on your personal responsibility within an engineering team..........................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Working as trainee manager in Tesla presently there is analysis of the potential strength and
weakness in the team. Present report is based on making analysis of the belbin team roles and
there is analysis of the primary and secondary team roles (Donde and Ragsdale, 2021). Further
based on it there is discussion of the potential strength and weakness in the engineering team.
There is reflection of the personal responsibilities in the engineering team.
Belbin Role Test Discuss your primary and secondary team roles
Team role theories are specific to different team roles. These roles can be organisational,
functional, personal or skilful;. Each team consist of various team roles that depends on
particular goals that team is willing to achieve.
Primary team roles:
In the present scenario of working in team the primary team roles are mentioned below:
Shaper: shapers are the ones who are challenging teams for further improvement (Chung and
Sheridan, 2021). They are extroverted and dynamic people who enjoy stimulating others and
development of best approaches for solving problems.
Implementer (IMP): Implementers are the ones who are willing to get things done, they are
turning concepts and ideas in practical actions and plans. In this role the main work was to
implement all the aspect and working as per requirement of various allotted tasks.
Secondary job roles:
Coordinator (CO): In this role the main task was to guide the team and perceive their objectives.
In this main working was to be excellent listener and recognize the value that each team member
is bringing to team.
Resource investigator (RI): It is the secondary associated role of being curious and innovative.
This role was very important to be creative and allot all the resources effectively to achieve team
goals.
Monitor-evaluator (ME); it is important to identify the best analysing of ideas and evaluating of
ideas (Loveday, 2018) . The main task in this role is to keep a check on all the activities that are
to be performed as part of the team working.
Discuss your potential strength and weakness within an engineering team
Potential strength: