Examples Of Social Loafing

Working in groups gives off the notion that group members will have to do less work. However, we are usually given group work because the project is too much work for a single to person to do alone. Using this idea, each person should still be putting in the same amount of time and effort as if they were doing a project on their own. However, this is not always the case. This is where social loafing comes in. Social loafing is the idea that a person will exert less effort when working in a group then they would if they were working alone. I have worked in many different groups, for school, work, and extracurricular activities, and I have experienced social loafing in all of these situations.
I think my best example of an experience with social loafing happened in my marketing class during my junior year of college. In this class, we had breakout sessions where we were broken into groups of four students. Our semester project required us to do identify a …show more content…
I currently work at a math tutoring center in College Station for students from first grade through high school. Instructors sit at a one table while they are there, working with up to five students at time. Our policy is to have all of the tables cleaned at the end of the day. To take the burden of cleaning all tables while closing, it is the responsibility of each instructor to clean his or her table before clocking out. We have had some problems with some instructors not keeping up with all procedures, but we have mostly just brushed these off as they are new instructors and are still learning the system. However, there was one instructor who repeatedly did not clean his table before leaving. I think his thought that since he was not closing, he did not have to worry about cleaning his area, and that someone else would do it later for him. Although not cleaning a table is not a major deal, he still was not pulling his weight in cleaning