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Priya leads a project team at a Chennai health insurer. She wants a team that includes someone who turns ideas into practical plans, someone who finishes tasks and checks details, and someone who generates creative ideas. Which approach to team composition is she applying?

Priya is balancing complementary team roles, as in Belbin's model. Implementer, completer-finisher and plant are distinct roles, and an effective team needs a mix of them rather than identical skills, seniority-based allocation or an arbitrarily tiny team.

  1. ABalancing complementary team roles, as in Belbin's modelCorrect
  2. BHiring only people with identical technical qualifications
  3. CApplying Taylor's scientific management to each individual
  4. DAllocating tasks purely by seniority
  5. Minimising team size to two members

Explanation

Belbin's model identifies roles such as implementer, completer-finisher and plant. Effective teams need a balance of such roles, which is what Priya seeks. The other options do not address complementary behavioural roles.

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