25Apr 2017

SOCIAL LOAFING IN WORK GROUPS-AN IMPERATIVE PLOY OF INDIVIDUAL VARIABLES

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Khalsa College for Women, Civil Lines, Ludhiana.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Khalsa College for Women, Civil Lines, Ludhiana
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Social loafing is a group phenomenon. The coming together of people to form a group also brings along their individual differences, cultural disparities, difference in motivational aspects and their varied reactions to diverse situations. A review of literature shows enormous research on various situational and contextual factors influencing social loafing followed by studies on the role of motivational factors. However, important individual differences like personality orientations, individual beliefs and attitudes etc have always been overlooked and undermined. The present study aims to highlight these individual differences that are integral antecedents of social loafing behavior. It is an effort to gather a comprehensive view on social loafing and combine diverse connotations on part of the individual and his characteristic beliefs and orientations that collaborate and lead to the phenomena of social loafing in organizational settings.

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[Aditi Satija and Priya Kapila. (2017); SOCIAL LOAFING IN WORK GROUPS-AN IMPERATIVE PLOY OF INDIVIDUAL VARIABLES Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Apr). 1501-1507] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Dr Aditi Satija
Khalsa College for Women, Civil Lines, Ludhiana

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3973      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3973

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