BUSI 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Social Loafing, Motivation, Social Skills
31 Mar 2018
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Social loafing is the tendency to withhold physical or intellectual effort when performing a group task. One of the reasons for process losses in large groups. There are a number of ways to counteract social loafing: make individual performance more visible, the simplest way to do this is to keep the group small in size, make sure that the work is interesting. If the work is involving, intrinsic motivation should counteract social loafing. Increase feelings of indispensability: training and the status system can provide group members with unique inputs. Increased feedback from the boss, peers, and customers should encourage self-correction: reward group performance, members are more likely to monitor and maximize their own performance when the group receives rewards for effectiveness. Some writers have suggested that a team is different from a group because in a team a synergy develops such that the group"s efforts are greater than the sum of its parts.
