Study of Social Loafing and Employee Creativity

Shih, Ching-Hui; Shao, Chun-Chiu; Wang, Yaohua

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61542-4_84

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“…Social loafing has been abundantly researched both by organizational management researchers and psychologists for several decades (Karau, Williams, 1993;Guerin, 1999;Chen et al, 2014;Shih et al, 2017;etc.). The psychologists more often pay attention to individual stimuli of loafing, while the solution of the problem of social loafing when implementing organizational management changes is more relevant for the management professionals.…”

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Managerial Solutions that Increase the Effect of Group Synergy and Reduce Social Loafing

Vveinhardt

Banikonytė

2017

Management of Organizations: Systematic Research

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Reduction of social loafing in the organization and increase of group synergy are integral objectives of human resource management, setting high requirements to the quality of managerial solutions. The purpose of this research is to develop managerial solutions that increase the effect of group synergy and reduce the spread of social loafing. The article analyses the concept of the social loafing phenomenon distinguishing the essential demotivators in work groups of organizations. The reasons of occurrence and existence of social loafing are analysed as well, differentiating them into groups. The authors also discuss beliefs and behaviour of employees in organizations that lead to the emergence and (or) suppression of the social loafing phenomenon. Based on a comparative and systemic logical analysis of scientific literature, as well as the results of empirical research, there are developed managerial solutions using the modelling method. Keywords: social loafing, group work, group synergy, managerial solutions.Socialinio dykinėjimo organizacijoje mažinimas ir grupės sinergijos didinimas yra neatsiejami žmogiškųjų išteklių valdymo uždaviniai, keliantys aukštus reikalavimus vadybinių sprendimų kokybei. Šio tyrimo tikslas -suformuoti vadybinius sprendimus grupinės sinergijos efektui didinti mažinant socialinio dykinėjimo paplitimo mastą. Atlikta socialinio dykinėjimo reiškinio sampratos analizė ir išskirti esminiai demotyvatoriai organizacijų darbo grupėse. Taip pat išanalizuotos socialinio dykinėjimo reiškinio atsiradimo ir egzistavimo priežastys, sujungus jas į grupes. Aptarti organizacijos darbuotojų įsitikinimai ir elgsenos, lemiančios socialinio dykinėjimo reiškinio atsiradimą ir (arba) slopinimą. Atliktos mokslinės literatūros lyginamosios, sisteminės loginės analizės bei empirinio tyrimo rezultatų pagrindu suformuoti vadybiniai sprendimai pateikiami naudojant modeliavimo metodą. Raktiniai žodžiai: socialinis dykinėjimas, darbas grupėse, grupės sinergija, vadybiniai sprendimai.

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Managerial Solutions that Increase the Effect of Group Synergy and Reduce Social Loafing

Vveinhardt

Banikonytė

2017

Management of Organizations: Systematic Research

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Social Loafing

Türksoy

2020

Organizational Behavior Challenges in the Tourism Industry

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The performance of an employee is quite important for the organizations encountering a severe competition in today's conditions. For the tourism establishments, in which the number of the employees is quite high, providing innovative and quality service, meeting the customer satisfaction, is directly related to the performance of the employee. However, a part of the employees cannot display the expected performance. In literature, this situation is explained as social loafing. In literature, social loafing is the tendency of individuals to expend less effort when working in groups than when working alone. This undesirable situation for the tourism establishments decreases productivity and performance of the business. In the study, firstly the concept of social loafing, the approaches explaining social loafing, the first researches in the literature, and social loafing in the workplace are summarized. Then, the social loafing phenomenon in tourism industry, the studies carried out regarding this subject, and the preventive suggestions for social loafing are given place.

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Study of Social Loafing and Employee Creativity

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Managerial Solutions that Increase the Effect of Group Synergy and Reduce Social Loafing

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