Question
How can you reduce social loafing in groups? Think of any two incidents of social loafing in school. How did you overcome it?
Solution
Social loading is a negative group influence. For the quality performance of the group, it should be reduced. It can be reduced through the following methods:
(i) By making the efforts of each person identifiable.
(ii) increasing the pressure to work hard (making group-members committed to successful tasks performance).
(iii) increasing the apparent importance or value of a task.
(iv) making people feel that their individual contribution is important.
(v) strengthening group cohesiveness which increases the motivation for successful group outcome.
