Title

Withholding effort at work: Understanding and preventing shirking, job neglect, social loafing, and free riding

Authors

Nathan Bennett
Stefanie E. Naumann, University of the PacificFollow

Files

Document Type

Contribution to Book

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 ...

Buy Link

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/managing-organizational-deviance/book226307#contents

Find in WorldCat

https://worldcat.org/title/809772689?oclcNum=809772689

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

Comments

DOI: 10.4135/9781452231105.n5

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