Martín-Sómer, MiguelLinares, MaríaGomez-Pozuelo, Gema2023-10-062023-10-062023Miguel Martín-Sómer, María Linares, Gema Gomez-Pozuelo, Effective management of work groups through the behavioural roles applied in higher education students, Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 43, 2023, Pages 83-91, ISSN 1749-7728, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ece.2023.02.0021749-7728https://hdl.handle.net/10115/24716This work is based on the original one presented as an oral communication at the VI National Conference on Innovation on Chemical Engineering Education (VI CIDIQ) held in Madrid (Spain) last July 2022. Here, the authors wish to specially acknowledge to the scientific committee the invitation to prepare this extended manuscript to be published in the special issue of Education for Chemical Engineers. Furthermore, the authors want to thank the Higher School of Experimental Sciences and Technology (ESCET) of Rey Juan Carlos University for the financial support.One of the most in-demand skills for engineers is working effectively in a team. However, divergences inside the group often lead to the unsuccessful progress of the task. Therefore, creating a methodology that allows overcoming this obstacle and promotes successful teamwork seems fundamental. In this work, we present a novel questionnaire that we have designed and implemented to form balanced work teams based on the behaviour and personality of the group members. Concretely, the roles selected were Leader, Collaborative, Thoughtful and Creative. The role assignment was performed using a questionary and applied to different subjects and degrees. The role of Leader was predominant, but when analysing the group mates’ opinions, a relevant decrease was observed, indicating that the students answered the questionary as a leader but did not show leadership capacities. The second role majority was Collaborator, and Creative and Thoughtful roles obtained the fewest percentages. Finally, the academic results of different courses and the students’ feedback experience have been analysed, getting an upbeat assessment of the new methodology for forming groups, and it has also been observed an improvement in the average marks of the subjects.engAtribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/TeamworkWork groupsStudents’ skillsHigher educationBehavioural rolesEffective management of work groups through the behavioural roles applied in higher education studentsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.1016/j.ece.2023.02.002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess