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Ringlemann Effect : Significance And Effects Of Social Loafing

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Have you experienced social loafing or free riding in a team setting? What could have been done or can be done to avoid these effects? Social Loafing is also known as Ringlemann Effect coined after series of experiments conducted by Ringlemann in 1913. According to Ringlemann people working in groups end up using less efforts rather than when working individually. Individuals who are more motivated towards their work engage in more social interactions and people who are less motivated are engaged in social loafing. A free rider can be explained as a person in the team who not contribute his fair share of work and received an equal share of the team’s success. Ways to deal with social loafing and free ridings: 1. Identify the size of the team – precisely look for only the required number of successful people to accomplish the task. 2. Social loafing can be hard to find where there are more number of people contributing towards one goal and it’s hard to find individual contributions in these situations. So, a good way to identify social loafing is to assign individuals with one task rather than assigning them in groups. 3. Also identifying the right person for a specific task can sometimes reduce the problems of social loafing. 4. Significance of the task or the goal may also sometimes play a crucial in a team success. Task significance refers to the relevance of the task to the immediate organization, group, society. 5. Reward Systems are performance appraisals also best

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