A Social Disease: Social Loafing

Year 2013, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 238 - 270, 03.06.2013

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Abstract

Managers have always searched some ways to improve performance of workers and effectiveness of organizations. Presently, it’s getting more important to prevent performance loss under intensely competetive and dynamic circumstances. Since team work has become more weighty in organisations, it has been a necessity for managers to cope with social loafing. Social loafing is the tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually. In this study, the literature about definition, content, background, development, reasons and antecedents of social loafing concept are summarized and argued; finally suggestions are offered for reducing social loafing in organisations.

Keywords

Social Loafing, Social Impact, Collective Effort Model, Evaluation Potential

Toplumsal Bir Hastalık: Sosyal Kaytarma

Abstract

Yöneticiler her zaman çalışanların performanslarını ve örgütün etkililiğini daha fazla arttırabilmenin yollarını aramışlardır. Günümüzün yoğun rekabetçi ve dinamik koşullarında çalışanların performans kayıplarını önlemek giderek daha fazla önem kazanmaktadır. Özellikle ekip çalışmalarının örgütlerde daha fazla ağırlık kazanması sonucunda, sosyal kaytarmayı önlemek yöneticiler açısından zorunlu hale gelmiştir. Sosyal kaytarma, bireylerin ortaklaşa çalıştıklarındaki motivasyon ve çabalarının, bireysel çalışmalarındakine göre azalması durumudur. Sosyal kaytarmanın bireyler, sosyal kurumlar ve toplumlar için olumsuz sonuçlar doğuran bir tür sosyal hastalık olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bu çalışmada, sosyal kaytarma kavramının kapsamı, tarihçe, sebep ve öncülleri konusundaki mevcut literatür özetlenip tartışılmakta; ayrıca örgütlerde sosyal kaytarmayı azaltma önerileri sergilenmektedir.

Keywords

Sosyal Kaytarma, Sosyal Etki, Ortaklaşa Çaba Modeli, Değerlendirme Potansiyeli

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