An Effect of Internal Incentives to Task Performance on Social Loafing

Abstract

Studied the effect of personal involvement in task performance on the elimination of social loafing. Human Subjects: 180 normal male Japanese adults (undergraduate students). Subjects worked on a simple paper-folding task under conditions of (1) high or low identifiability and control and (2) internal or internal-external task incentive. The effects of member motivation and co-worker performance were assessed. (English abstract) ((c) 1999 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved)