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3 pages in length. The findings provided by Latane et al's Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes & Consequences of Social Loafing and Individual Differences in Social Loafing: Need for Cognitive as a Motivator in Collective Performance by Smith et al enable people to understand how their collective performance in a group activity is not always more powerful or valuable than the efforts exerted by each individual. Both articles are instrumental in providing a significantly better realization of social loafing and how it reflects the extent to which an individual's efforts are wholly dependent upon motivation and accountability. No bibliography.
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a Motivator in Collective Performance by Smith et al enable people to understand how their collective performance in a group activity is not always more powerful or valuable than the
efforts exerted by each individual. Both articles are instrumental in providing a significantly better realization of social loafing and how it reflects the extent to which an individuals efforts
are wholly dependent upon motivation and accountability. Based in the fundamental findings of the Ringelmann Effect, both articles draw their conclusions upon the
proven fact that a given task is not met with greater total force when approached with a group as it is with an individual. Ringelmanns noted experiment tested the
how much effort a group put toward pulling a rope, beginning with a small number of people and slowly adding to the original group. Findings clearly indicated how with
each addition of new people, the total force of the group as a whole did, in fact, increase; however, each individuals force as a single person in that group fell
quite dramatically. Latane et al and Smith et al point out that one of the primary determinates in how much effort a given individual puts forth in a group activity
is how much personal motivation is associated with the event. If two of five participants stand to gain personal benefit from the project - either in the form of
recognition or tangible gain - then only two-fifths of the equation will likely be putting forth equal - and ultimately more - effort. If, for example, three of the
five participants are helping the other two with a favor, the motivational factor is directly related to the two who asked the favor, not the three who were summoned to
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