Social Loafing and Recommendations on How to Reduce Its Occurrence within Groups Working on University Poster Presentations
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Social Loafing and Recommendations on How to Reduce Its Occurrence within Groups Working on University Poster Presentations. Abstract Social loafing occurs in groups and reduces group effectiveness and productivity. Various literatures on social loafing reviewed suggest that the group size, the identifiably of the participants, the evaluation of their performance, people's beliefs about their feelings of uniqueness, envy, task difficulty, how people's beliefs about their feelings of uniqueness and expectations of co-workers are variables that influence social loafing in a group. Based on the literatures, a better understanding of social loafing was reached and some recommendations on how to reduce its occurrence within a groups working on University poster presentations were presented. However, most of the existing literatures reviewed were from experiments on proving variables that influence social loafing. Therefore, more research to find out methods that effectively reduce or eliminate social loafing needs to be done. Social Loafing and Recommendations on...

