Social Loafing and Recommendations on How to Reduce Its Occurrence within Groups Working on University Poster Presentations

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Social Loafing and Recommendations on How to Reduce Its Occurrence within Groups Working on University Poster Presentations

Abstract

Social loafing occurs in groups and reduces group effectiveness and

productivity. Various literatures on social loafing reviewed suggest

that the group size, the identifiably of the participants, the

evaluation of their performance, people’s beliefs about their feelings

of uniqueness, envy, task difficulty, how people’s beliefs about their

feelings of uniqueness and expectations of co-workers are variables

that influence social loafing in a group. Based on the literatures, a

better understanding of social loafing was reached and some

recommendations on how to reduce its occurrence within a groups

working on University poster presentations were presented. However,

most of the existing literatures reviewed were from experiments on

proving variables that influence social loafing. Therefore, more

research to find out methods that effectively reduce or eliminate

social loafing needs to be done.

Social Loafing and Recommendations on How to Reduce Its Occurrence

within Groups Working on University Poster Presentations.

Groups are used to enhance productivity and to accomplish tasks that

require more than one individual. Committees, sports teams, government

task forces, study groups and symphonies are examples of groups that

require combined individual efforts. However, groups can also inhibit

individual productivity, where there is a reduction in effort by

individuals when they work in groups as compared to when they work by

themselves (Weiten, 2004).This is referred to as social loafing. Based

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