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Social facilitation

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, social facilitation means: Improved performance on some tasks when other people are present, especially when the task is well practised.

In Turkish: sosyal kolaylaştırma

How it is used

Use for a possible audience or co-actor effect; other people's presence can hinder difficult or unfamiliar tasks instead.

Example sentences

  1. The trainer discussed social facilitation after experienced staff worked faster during a public demonstration.

    The presence of observers is considered as a possible influence on a familiar task.

  2. We did not assume social facilitation would help new employees learning an unfamiliar procedure.

    Task familiarity matters when interpreting the effect of others' presence.

Common collocations

  • social facilitation effect
  • social facilitation in performance
  • performance reviewA regular formal meeting in which a manager and an employee discuss how well the employee has done their job, agree on a rating and set goals for the next period.
  • team buildingActivities and efforts that help team members trust each other, communicate better and work well together, from workshops to social events.

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