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Student Perceptions of Social Loafing in Undergraduate Business Classroom Teams
Author(s) -
Jassawalla Avan R.,
Malshe Avinash,
Sashittal Hemant
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
decision sciences journal of innovative education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1540-4609
pISSN - 1540-4595
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4609.2008.00183.x
Subject(s) - social loafing , construct (python library) , psychology , perception , perspective (graphical) , social psychology , applied psychology , pedagogy , computer science , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , programming language
There is a rich body of research devoted to the causes and remedies of social loafing in workplace teams. However, the social loafing phenomenon remains underinvestigated from the perspective of students in undergraduate business classroom teams. In particular, how they define and respond to loafing remains unknown. This article reports findings from a two‐stage study that shows social loafing as a more complex construct than current conceptions suggest. Moreover, students avoid confronting loafers and prefer to have instructors administer postpriori justice based on their self‐report of individual contributions. Based on the findings and recent writings, the article speculates on the causes of these student responses to social loafing in classroom teams.