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Social loafing

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, social loafing means: A tendency to put in less individual effort when working collectively than when one's contribution is separately identifiable.

In Turkish: sosyal kaytarma

How it is used

Use for reduced effort linked to collective work; do not use it as a label for every performance problem.

Example sentences

  1. Social loafing became a concern when ten people shared a task but no contributions were visible.

    Low visibility makes individual effort difficult to distinguish within the group.

  2. The lecturer used group reports to discuss social loafing and ways of making contributions visible.

    The concept concerns effort in group work, not a fixed personal trait.

Common collocations

  • reduce social loafing
  • social loafing in teams
  • accountabilityThe duty to answer for the result of a task or decision, which includes explaining what happened and accepting the consequences, even if others did the work.
  • 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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