Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance

The use of teams in organisations is often plagued by reduced individual effort which is termed social loafing. Therefore the study proposed that by making people aware that they are part of a group and introducing intergroup competition, social loafing would be reduced and turned into social labour...

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Main Author: Botha, Corlia
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10117
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spelling ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-101172020-10-07T05:11:32Z Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance Botha, Corlia Organisational Psychology The use of teams in organisations is often plagued by reduced individual effort which is termed social loafing. Therefore the study proposed that by making people aware that they are part of a group and introducing intergroup competition, social loafing would be reduced and turned into social labouring. The study further investigated the potential mediating effect of social dominance orientation on the relationship between group membership salience and task performance. 2014-12-26T14:14:35Z 2014-12-26T14:14:35Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10117 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Commerce Organisational Psychology
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Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance
description The use of teams in organisations is often plagued by reduced individual effort which is termed social loafing. Therefore the study proposed that by making people aware that they are part of a group and introducing intergroup competition, social loafing would be reduced and turned into social labouring. The study further investigated the potential mediating effect of social dominance orientation on the relationship between group membership salience and task performance.
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title_short Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance
title_full Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance
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