Individual motivation within groups : social loafing and motivation gains in work, academic, and sports teams / edited by Steven J. Karau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karau, Steven J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social groups.

Motivation (Psychology).

Intergroup relations.

Teams in the workplace.

Sports teams.

Physical Description:

xiv, 368 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA, United States : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2020]

Contents:

1 Social Loafing and Motivation Gains in Groups: An Integrative Review p. 3 / Steven J. Karau and Aric J. Wilhau

1.1 Historical overview and classic studies p. 4

1.2 Robustness and magnitude of social loafing p. 9

1.3 Classic theories of social loafing p. 10

1.4 The collective effort model p. 14

1.5 Factors that can reduce or eliminate social loafing p. 20

1.6 Motivation gains in groups p. 33

1.7 Future directions and conclusion p. 39

Part 2 Advances and Applications p. 53

2 Social Loafing in Organizational Work Groups: The Mitigating Effect of Servant Leadership p. 55 / Jeroen Stouten and Robert C. Liden

2.1 Servant leadership: overview of relevance to social loafing p. 58

2.2 Servant leadership and structural elements of social loafing p. 59

2.3 Relational elements p. 60

2.4 Reducing social loafing: comparison of servant leadership with related leadership approaches p. 72

2.5 Suggestions for future research p. 74

3 Individual Motivation, Team Learning, and Performance in Collaborative Academic Contexts p. 81 / Michaéla C. Schippers and Ad W.A. Scheepers

3.1 Research at a large business school p. 83

3.2 Social loafing in academic contexts: something to be avoided at all costs? p. 90

3.3 Interventions aimed at reducing social loafing p. 91

3.4 Social interdependence theory: cooperative goal structures p. 97

3.5 Team reflexivity and social loafing p. 99

3.6 Goal setting p. 100

3.7 Catme as a promising intervention p. 101

4 Effort Losses and Effort Gains in Sports Teams p. 109 / Joachim Hüffmeier and Guido Hertel

4.1 Conceptual and theoretical background p. 110

4.2 Studies on effort losses in sports teams p. 113

4.3 Studies on effort gains in sports teams p. 127

4.4 Studies focusing on the effort of swimmers in relays p. 137

4.5 Avenues for future research on team member effort in sports teams p. 143

5 Back to the Future: The Köhler Motivation Gain in Exergames p. 149 / Stephen Samendinger and Emery J. Max and Deborah L. Feltz and Norbert L. Kerr

5.2 Review of the XRL program of research p. 153

5.3 Forward to the near future p. 180

5.4 Forward to the distant future... p. 182

6 Sustaining Individual Motivation in High-Demand Team Environments p. 191 / James E. Driskell and Eduardo Salas

6.1 Teams in extreme environments p. 193

6.2 Loss of motivation in extreme environments p. 195

6.3 The impact of the primary group p. 197

6.4 Meaningful work p. 205

7 Temporal Stability of Effort Gains in Teams p. 223 / Guido Hertel and Joachim Hüffmeier

7.1 Motivating effects of teamwork p. 225

7.2 Individualistic and collectivism motives as drivers of effort gains in teams p. 225

7.3 Temporal endurance of effort gains in teams p. 228

7.4 Laboratory studies of temporal stability of effort gains in teams p. 229

7.5 Temporal endurance of team effort gains in the field p. 243

Part 3 Linkages p. 259

8 Social Loafing in the Management of Social Dilemmas p. 261 / Craig D. Parks

8.1 Social dilemmas and social loafing: parallels p. 263

8.2 Social loafing interventions applied to social dilemmas p. 274

9 Social Facilitation and Social Loafing: Opposite Sides of the Same Coin p. 297 / Adam J. Brown and Stephen G. Harkins

9.1 A look back p. 299

9.2 The unified model p. 301

9.3 Evaluation: the role of self and external sources p. 303

9.4 The mere effort account p. 308

10 Ostracism and Motivation in Groups p. 331 / Kristin L. Sommer and Julia Leone and Kipling D. Williams

10.1 The collective effort model p. 333

10.2 Temporal need-threat model of ostracism p. 334

10.3 Review of the literature p. 335

10.4 Effects of ostracism on social loafing p. 335

10.5 Effects of loafing on future ostracism p. 344

10.6 Important questions for future research p. 350.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780128498675

0128498676

OCLC:

1120215541