Organizational commitment and social loafing are important interrelated concepts in working life. Employees who think that their performance will decrease effort be lost, work is not meaningful, prefer to hide the crowd socially loaf. It crucial reveal exact nature of this relationship terms employee productivity, cooperation, competitiveness inexhaustibility. thought have an efficiency-, perfo...

This study investigated whether effort and performance in interactive teams are influenced by identifiability of individual motivation and effort. The subjects participated in a floorball tournament under conditions of non-identifiability and identifiability. Measures of self-reported effort, heart rate, individual performance and perceived social loafing were collected. The results indicated t...

This paper reports a study of electronic brainstorming that begins with field experience, moves through theory building and experimentation, and ends with practical guidance for facilitators and developers. The paper argues that social loafing impairs the productivity of electronic brainstorming groups, and that social comparison is a way to decrease the @ect(s) of social loafing. By inducing s...

Several previous studies have investigated collaborative approaches for processing complex environments. Beyond the improvement of performance and working efficiency, these studies highlighted two important constraints, which limit the efficiency of these approaches. First, social loafing which is linked to the redundancy of roles in the same group. Second, coordination conflicts which are link...

Supported by meta-analytic evidence, the general consensus in teams literature is that more a team communicates, better. However, one type of communication appears at odds with this view gossip—a behavior traditionally viewed as harmful organizations. We propose way to uncover potential benefits gossip focus on valence (positive or negative nature) gossip. Drawing expectancy theory, we indirect...

Recent developments of higher teacher education in Tanzania have witnessed high student enrolments necessitating change an emphasis from individual assessment to group-based practices. In this context, informed by the constructivist philosophical perspective, article reports on pre-service teachers’ voices regarding prevalence, impacts and counteractive strategies social loafing. The teachers a...

this study draws attention to the ubiquitous and borderless nature of cybercrime. it examines the prospect of introducing customized cyber insurance policy in the nigerian market. as secondary data was not available, the study conducted a survey by administering three sets of questionnaire to purposively selected top executives in four trade groups that rely heavily on internet transactions for...