Define social loafing and suggest some ways to reduce social-00424
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Social loafing
In groups, individual performance is difficult to identify. There is a strong potential for social loafing, the tendency to exert less effort in a group. Social loafing can impact work-group effectiveness. Social loafing occurs because workers feel that high-level performance goes unrewarded. This occurs because individual performance goes unidentified, and low-level performance goes unpunished.
Motivation theories suggest that performance is high when outcomes are based on individual performance. Workers in a group believe that their efforts are unimportant and that others can do the work
