Withholding effort at work: Understanding and preventing shirking, job neglect, social loafing, and free riding
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Book Title
Managing Organizational Deviance
Editor(s)
Roland E. Kidwell & Christopher L. Martin
Description
Throughout modern times, business cycles have contributed to organizational conditions with well-understood implications for the employee-employer relationship. During “boom” periods, qualified employees are scarce and expensive. During these periods, employers express concern about maintaining competitive pay and benefits practices, protecting their “investment” in human resources, creating and maintaining an attractive work environment, and minimizing turnover. During “bust” periods, qualified labor becomes much more easily found, and employers focus on minimizing the cost of human resource “overhead,” downsizing, maximizing operational efficiency, and optimizing the performance of remaining employees. Although macroeconomic conditions are arguably the key driver ...
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ISBN
978-1452266756
Publication Date
2005
Publisher
Sage Publications
City
Thousand Oaks, CA
First Page
113
Last Page
130
Keywords
free riding; group cohesiveness; group performance; job design; neglect; social loafing; staff
Disciplines
Business | Human Resources Management | Organizational Behavior and Theory
Recommended Citation
Bennett, N.,
&
Naumann, S. E.
(2005).
Withholding effort at work: Understanding and preventing shirking, job neglect, social loafing, and free riding.
In Roland E. Kidwell & Christopher L. Martin (Eds.), Managing Organizational Deviance (113–130). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/esob-facbooks/28
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DOI: 10.4135/9781452231105.n5