Definition von social loafing im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
In the social psychology of groups, social loafing is the phenomenon that persons make less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone. This is one of the main reasons that groups sometimes perform less than the combined performance of their members working as individuals
The tendency of individuals to withhold physical or intellectual effort when performing a group task
The tendency of individuals to withhold physical or intellectual effort when performing a group task (8)
The tendency of members of groups to work less hard when group performance is measured than when individual performance is measured (p 609)
The tendency for people to work less on a task the greater the number of people are working on that task
The idea that individual efforts decrease as the size of the group increases; a detachment from the group that occurs when group members feel as if they are not needed to produce the group's outcome or as if their individual efforts are not recognized by other members