Organizational researchers, especially in the past 15 years, have been investigating the
generalizability of experimental findings on social loafing to organizational field settings. In …

Social loafing was investigated by testing a multilevel model among 23 intact work groups
comprised of 168 employees representing two organizations. Results demonstrated that as …

It was hypothesized and found that task visibility and intrinsic task involvement would each
be negatively associated with “social loafing” in an ongoing organization. Individuals …

Social loafing (SL) is a counterintuitive phenomenon that describes a decrease of efficiency
observed in both small groups and large organizations. Research over the past century has …

Purpose–Social loafing is described in the literature as a frequent problem reducing
individuals' performance when working in groups. This paper aims to utilize the social …

We investigate the impact different types of conflict have on social loafing perceptions within
groups/teams. In a sample of 164 respondents, the perception of social loafing was found to …

The authors developed a multilevel interactive model for predicting social loafing behavior in
groups and tested this model in a study of 367 individuals working in 102 groups during a 4 …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the social loafing literature by investigating
the role of group development process on perceptions of social loafing within groups …

This study was conducted for two purposes. The first was to find out trend patterns for
perceived social loafing, the four types of intra-group conflict (ie, task, relationship, logistic …

Although it is often assumed that team member's tendency to social loaf is detrimental to
team performance, I propose that this relationship is not always negative. Drawing from …