Cognitive Loafing, Social Conformity and Judicial Review of Agency Rulemaking

Cognitive Loafing, Social Conformity, and Judicial Review of Agency Rulemaking

Organization, Process, and Agency Rulemaking

Organizational theorists and economists have long understood that structuring internal work processes into more hierarchical or team-based arrangements has important consequences for the timeliness and character of organizational outputs. We apply these insights to demonstrate how variation in the design of rulemaking procedures inside regulatory agencies impacts the resulting rules. Employing ...

PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN Shepperd, Taylor / SOCIAL LOAFING Social Loafing and Expectancy-Value Theory

Expectancy value theory holds that goal-directed behavior is a function of (a) expectations—the belief that performance depends on effort, (b) instrumentality—the belief that outcome depends on performance, and (c) outcome value—the value attached to achieving the outcome. The present research provides a direct test of two factors involved in the instrumentality component: the contingency betwe...

Social Loafing and Group Evaluation

Recent work (e.g., Harkins, 1987; Szymanski & Harkins, 1987) has suggested that social loafing occurs because participants' outputs cannot be evaluated by the experimenter, by the coactors, or by the participants themselves. This analysis has focused on the output of the individual, but in loafing research, participants work together to produce a group product. However, in this prior work parti...

Agency, Cyberspace, and Social Contract

The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...