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social loafing

A Dictionary of Business and Management | 2006 | 267 words | Copyright

social loafing The general tendency for people to expend less effort on a task when working as part of a group than when working individually. There have been various attempts to explain this phenomenon. See collective effort model; Ringelmann effect; sucker effect.

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