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social loafing

Source:
A Dictionary of Business and Management
Author(s):

Jonathan Law

social loafing 

The general tendency for people to expend less effort on a task when working as part of a group than when working individually. There have been various attempts to explain this phenomenon. See collective effort model; Ringelmann effect; sucker effect.