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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Social Loafing"”.
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Social Loafing Construct Validity in Higher Education: How Well Do Three Measures of Social Loafing Stand Up to Scrutiny?
… study was to examine the construct validity of social loafing using convergent and discriminant validity principles. Three instruments that purport to measure social loafing were factor analyzed: A ten-item instrument by George (1992), a 13-item instrument by Mulvey and Klein (1998), and a …
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Student Perception of Social Loafing in University Teamwork
This study investigated perceptions of social loafing in undergraduate student teams at a South African university. Student participants, randomly assigned to teams, received coursework instruction about team dynamics (including social loafing) and worked together for 12 weeks on a team assignment …
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Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance
… by reduced individual effort which is termed social loafing. Therefore the study proposed that by making people aware that they are part of a group and introducing intergroup competition, social loafing would be reduced and turned into social labouring. The study further investigated the …
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Mutual Performance Monitoring in Virtual Teams
… for building collective efficacy, reducing social loafing, and increasing satisfaction with team members. However, mutual performance monitoring was found not related to team performance. Reasoning for the findings, along with implications, limitations, and future research ideas are …
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Investigating the extent to which students share tacit knowledge using moblie phones in group projects
… of workload, free riding, individual and social barriers, lack of team development, lack of social interaction, lack of motivation, inadequate rewards, skills and attitude problems or social loafing. The integration of the mobile context and technologies in group-learning can assist in …
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Examining the Underlying Mechanisms and Potential Outcomes of Stress Bragging
… and detrimental effects for organizations (e.g., social loafing). Additionally, it explores the moderating role of competitive work environments (CWE). The study collected temporally segregated data from employees (n = 355) across diverse industries in the USA and Canada. The findings revealed …
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Influence of formal techniques and design fixation on idea generation tasks in engineering practice
… to the de-facto approach because it reduced social loafing, used time more efficiently, reduced the need for group consensus, mitigated premature idea evaluation, and increased the positive effects of peer evaluation.
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Towards a pragmatic and evidence-based approach to the assessment of group work in undergraduate courses: an action research study
… perceptions of group work, it identified social loafing as students' key concern, explored ways to alleviate the problem, presented students with a range of options and ended with an examination of students' perceptions of the formative and summative peer assessment process they chose to …
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An investigation of team lifting using psychophysical methods
… to see whether these would produce the psychosocial effects of social loafing and social facilitation. Three male and three female two-person teams performed team lifts, using psychophysical methodology, under all four conditions. The only significant effect found was for gender. Female teams …
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Stewardship: Theoretical Development and Empirical Test of its Determinants
… followers may be responsible for a type of moral social loafing. The implications of this phenomenon are discussed. I conclude by discussing the implications if this research at the individual, organizational, and societal level, putting forth future avenues of study for stewardship research.
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A risk assessment method for online social transparency in enterprise information systems.
Enterprises integrate social networking tools within their information systems to enhance social networking, situational awareness, coordination and collaboration amongst their members. Social interaction can be empowered by traditional tools such as E-mail, or specialised social platforms, …
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THE ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP: A TEST OF TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECTS
… of hierarchy. Specifically, based on theories of social learning and social exchange, this study examines the influence of empowering leadership of second-level leaders on subordinates’ various work outcomes through first-level leaders’ empowering leadership to help identify mediating process that …
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A Mixed Methods Study of Leader-Follower Dynamics in Student Project Teams: Toward Advancing Career Readiness
… low-quality teamwork started out with limited social cohesion, exhibited social loafing, and were polarized along in-group versus out-group lines. In contrast, groups with high-quality teamwork started out with team bonding, resolved minor conflicts quickly, and established team synergy. …