ABSTRACT Research conducted in the United States has found . that people exert more effort when they perfarm a task individually than when they do so in a group. This phenomenon has been labeled social loafing. To examine the transcultural generality of social ' loafing, 20 male anck2.0 female Chinese,school children in Taiwan were selected from grades 2, 3, 6, and/9. They were asked to shout a...

Prior research has identified team size and dispersion as important antecedents of social loafing in technology-enabled teams. However, the underlying mechanisms through which team size and team dispersion cause individuals to engage in social loafing is significantly understudied and needs to be researched. To address this exigency, we use Bandura’s Theory of Moral Disengagement to explain why...

With the prevalent use of smartphones and the emergence of the fourth generation of mobile telecommunications technology (4G), an increasing number of employees use their smartphones with cellular data for non-work related purposes during working hours. Compared to traditional cyberloafing, smartphone with cellular data provides a more convenient and private access to the Internet without any r...

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 signif...

Two experiments found that when asked to perform the physically exerting tasks of clapping and shouting, people exhibit a sizable decrease in individual effort when performing in groups as compared to when they perform alone. This decrease, which we call social loafing, is in addition to losses due to faulty coordination of group efforts. Social loafing is discussed in terms of its experimental...

Social loafing is the tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually. A meta-analysis of 78 studies demonstrates that social loafing is robust and generalizes across tasks and S populations. A large number of variables were found to moderate social loafing. Evaluation potential, expectations of co-worker performance, task meaningfulness, ...

We surveyed 237 undergraduate students who are enrolled in various subjects and are members of software engineering teams. Their being a member in a team is part of the requirements of the course. We found that each of task visibility, distributive justice, and intrinsic task involvement were negatively associated with social loafing. We also found out that dominance, aggression and sucker effe...

With the increasingly prevailing usage of Information and Communication technologies (ICT) in collaborative learning, students can cooperate with others online easily, in spite of the restriction of time and location. Social loafing, a common phenomenon in collaborative work, has negative effect on team performance, especially on the individual’s knowledge sharing behaviour. In recent years, th...

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...