SOCIAL LOAFING AS A LATENT FACTOR IN ORGANIZATIONS: PRODUCTIVITY LOSS IN GROUP WORK

This paper provides a comprehensive review on social loafing, its antecedents and related concepts. First of all, the concept of social loafing is discussed. In the next part, the factors that are responsible for the occurrence of social loafing and reinforce this dangerous latent factor in organizations are extracted from relevant literature and described. Finally, the current paper presents a comprehensive framework which shows the relationship between the antecedents of social loafing, social loafing, and Individual/group/organizational performance. This paper states that social loafing of individuals leads to productivity loss in group work and organizations. Moreover, the present paper provides further insight, for human resources managers of organizations, on HR practices contribute to appropriate job design and providing proper environment for personnel in workplace.