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Ishita, a senior actuary at a Chennai insurer, notices that her team of six has strong technical analysts but nobody who challenges plans, nobody who finishes tasks to deadline and nobody who brings in outside contacts. Using Belbin's team roles, which set of roles is most clearly missing?

The missing roles are Monitor Evaluator, Completer Finisher and Resource Investigator. Critical challenge of plans, finishing work to deadline and bringing in external contacts correspond to these three. The team already has technical specialists, so options treating the Specialist role as absent are incorrect.

  1. AMonitor Evaluator, Completer Finisher and Resource InvestigatorCorrect
  2. BPlant, Shaper and Specialist
  3. CImplementer, Coordinator and Teamworker
  4. DSpecialist, Monitor Evaluator and Plant
  5. Shaper, Coordinator and Completer Finisher

Explanation

Challenging plans with critical judgement is the Monitor Evaluator role; finishing to deadline and checking detail is the Completer Finisher; bringing in outside contacts is the Resource Investigator. The team already has Specialists (technical analysts), so options relying on Specialist as missing are wrong.

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