Working Harder or Hardly Working? Posting Performance Eliminates Social Loafing and Promotes Social Laboring in Workgroups

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lount, Robert B., Jr.; Wilk, Steffanie L.
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2013.1820
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1098-1106
• 关键词: organizational studies; effectiveness performance; motivation; PRODUCTIVITY

摘要

The current paper examines how posting performance-an act that triggers increased social comparisons between workers-influences employees' motivation when working in groups. In the study, posting employee performance moderated the relationship between groupwork and employee motivation. When individual performance was publicly posted in the workplace, employees working in a group performed better than when working alone (i.e., social laboring); however, when individual performance was not posted, employees working in a group performed worse than when working alone (i.e., social loafing). The findings shed light on how social comparisons can have positive implications for employee performance in groups.