A MODEL OF SOCIAL LOAFING: AN ARTICLE ANALYSIS

This article reviewed the concept of social loafing, and the application of this concept in work groups (Comer, 1995, pp. 647-667). The article focused on those factors that promote member reduction of effort toward group tasks. Factors were reviewed that research has consistently linked with social loafing, such as potential for evaluation of contributions and perceived dispensability of effort. The contributions to the phenomenon of social loafing of less studied factors, such as perceived lack of influence over task outcomes and the wish to avoid the sucker role also were reviewed in the article.

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