Impacts of Organizationa; Behavior on IT Project Teams: Leadership's Impact on Social Loafing
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This investigation focuses on antecedents impacting social loafing that would fall under the category of informal controls. Specifically, it investigates leadership aspects posited by the Collective Effort Model (Karau and Williams 2001) into the broader model for antecedents of social loafing. Leadership at the peer level and the supervisor level of an IT project could potentially be of significant importance, as they have been shown to influence project outcomes and other related social phenomena (Murphy et al. 2003; Roy et al. 2010). We find that adding both Peer Leadership and Supervisor Support to a model of factors already known to influence Social Loafing in project teams explains more of the variance in social loafing.
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