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Designing a model of social loafing in working groups; A study in the public sector of the Oil Refining and Distribution Industry
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Fereshteh Ghaleh Agha Babaei1   , Bijan Abdollahi2 , Saeed Jafariniya3 , Jafar Hasani4 |
1- Ph.D. Student of Human recourse management, Faculty of Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. , fereshtehbabai@ymail.com(
2- Associate Professor Education Managementm, Faculty of Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
3- Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management , Faculty of Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.
4- Associate Professor of Psychology, Faculty of psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. |
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Abstract: (2342 Views) |
The purpose of this research was to design a model of social loafing in order to understand its dimensions, effective factors, and consequences in refining and distribution department of oil industry. The data collection was carried out through topic literature and semi-structured interviews with industry experts in the field of group activities by snowball method. Thematic Analysis method (combination) was used to analyze the collected data, then the data was coded and the communicative pattern of the discovered content was drawn as a model. The results showed 78 unique concepts which are presented in two dimensions (competitive loafing and adequacy loafing) for the phenomenon of social loafing, as well as five effective factors (work-related factors, individual factors, group status, organizational and managerial factors, and social factors) and five consequences (individual emotions, Individual performance, group performance, group atmosphere, and organization status).
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| Keywords: social loafing, social disease, work groups, thematic analysis. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Received: 2019/08/28 | Accepted: 2019/11/24 | Published: 2020/09/22
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