Social Facilitation and Social Loafing
Social Facilitation and Social Loafing One undeniable fact can be stated about the effects of groups on individual performance. ... Social facilitation and social loafing play a huge role on group performance and are a huge impact on the organizational behavior of the individualistic culture present in American society. ... In some cases, our performance improves when others are present, an effect known as social facilitation. In other cases, however, our performance actually worsens when others are present, an effect known as social loafing. Social facilitation primarily results in enhanced task performance. ... Arousal can lead to what is known evaluation apprehension, which is the social anxiety that occurs when we believe that our behavior is under scrutiny and faces evaluation. ... It is believed that increased arousal during social facilitation is a product of the conflict between paying attention to others and paying attention to the task at hand. ... The main reason social loafing occurs is because workers feel that high-level performance goes un-rewarded.