Working with others on group or collective tasks often leads individuals to slack off and
reduce their own efforts, but such motivation losses are not inevitable, and motivation gains …

Although group work has the potential to both reduce and increase the effort expenditure of
its members, effort losses (ie, reduced effort in group-versus individual work) have long been …

Abstract focuses on small groups—specifically, goal-oriented groups in which people work
collectively on a task/describe the phenomenon of social loafing—a non-conscious, non …

Although motivation losses in groups have been fairly easy to document and replicate, the
search for motivation gains in groups has been far more elusive. Recently, the authors …

A recurring question of successful group work is how to maintain high task motivation of the
individual members. This paper reviews research on one well documented group motivation …

In contrast to many demonstrations of social loafing, relatively few studies have documented
group motivation gains. One such exception was O. Köhler's (1926, 1927) finding that team …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to challenge the assumption that process losses of
individuals working in teams are unavoidable. The paper aims to challenge this assumption …

There is considerable evidence from the social loafing literature that groups can often
undermine task motivation (relative to comparable individual performers). There is less but …

The tendency for people to loaf or free ride on the contributions of other people, although
commonplace, is not an inevitable Consequence of working in a group. We now know that …

This research demonstrates social support from fellow group members as unique trigger of
additional effort and performance in groups. Support‐induced effort gains are shown both …