Social loafing and social compensation: the effects of expectations of co-worker performance.
J Pers Soc Psychol
; 61(4): 570-81, 1991 Oct.
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ABSTRACT
Previous research has suggested that people tend to engage in social loafing when working collectively. The present research tested the social compensation hypothesis, which states that people will work harder collectively than individually when they expect their co-workers to perform poorly on a meaningful task. In 3 experiments, participants worked either collectively or coactively on an idea generation task. Expectations of co-worker performance were either inferred from participants' interpersonal trust scores (Experiment 1) or were directly manipulated by a confederate coworker's statement of either his intended effort (Experiment 2) or his ability at the task (Experiment 3). All 3 studies supported the social compensation hypothesis. Additionally, Experiment 3 supported the hypothesis that participants would not socially compensate for a poorly performing co-worker when working on a task that was low in meaningfulness.
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Assunto principal:
Comportamento Cooperativo
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Esforço Físico
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Objetivos
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Processos Grupais
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Motivação
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Pers Soc Psychol
Ano de publicação:
1991
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Article