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Individual Motivation within Groups: Social Loafing and Motivation Gains in Work, Academic, and Sports Teams

Editat de Steven Karau
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 oct 2019

Evoluția cercetării în psihologia socială și organizațională a translatat în ultimele decenii de la simpla observare a performanței de grup către o înțelegere nuanțată a mecanismelor cognitive și motivaționale care guvernează individul în interiorul colectivului. Individual Motivation within Groups, coordonat de Steven Karau, reflectă această maturizare a domeniului, oferind o sinteză riguroasă a modului în care dinamica de grup poate fie să diminueze efortul individual prin fenomenul de „social loafing”, fie să îl potențeze prin câștiguri motivaționale neașteptate.

Descoperim în această lucrare o structură tripartită care ghidează cititorul de la fundamentele teoretice către aplicații practice complexe. Prima parte stabilește cadrul conceptual prin Modelul Efortului Colectiv, în timp ce secțiunea a doua explorează medii specifice, de la echipe sportive la contexte academice colaborative. Notăm cu interes includerea unor teme de actualitate, precum stabilitatea temporală a efortului și impactul leadershipului de tip „servant” în atenuarea lenei sociale. Comparabil cu Motivation: Theory and Research de Harold F. O'Neil în rigurozitate, volumul de față este actualizat pentru complexitatea mediilor de lucru moderne și a noilor tehnologii (precum exergames), integrând totodată perspective cross-culturale esențiale.

Ultima parte a cărții realizează conexiuni vitale cu fenomene precum ostracismul și dilemele sociale, demonstrând că motivația nu este un element izolat, ci rezultatul unei interacțiuni constante între individ și structura socială. Spre deosebire de Groups at Work, care pune accent pe convergența dintre studiile organizaționale și cele sociale, lucrarea de față se concentrează pe mecanismele psihologice fine care determină dacă un membru al echipei va alege să exceleze sau să se retragă în anonimatul grupului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780128498675
ISBN-10: 0128498676
Pagini: 372
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Public țintă

Applied, social, and organizational psychologists; academics and researchers in these same areas, as well as those in the field of leadership

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru psihologii organizaționali, cercetătorii în leadership și cadrele didactice care doresc să înțeleagă de ce unele echipe generează sinergie, în timp ce altele se confruntă cu pasivitatea membrilor. Cititorul câștigă acces la strategii bazate pe dovezi pentru optimizarea performanței colective, învățând cum să identifice și să contracareze lenea socială prin aplicarea corectă a teoriilor motivaționale moderne în sport, educație sau afaceri.


Descriere scurtă

Individual Motivation within Groups: Social Loafing and Motivation Gains in Work, Academic, and Sports Teams explores the state of our scientific understanding of when and why individuals are most and least likely to work hard as members of groups and work teams. This book addresses key psychological phenomena such as social loafing, social dilemmas, social facilitation, and ostracism, with each chapter creating connections to related topics such as leadership, performance in learning groups, isolated teams, and more. This volume provides a summary of the field’s history, synthesizes related research, and, using the Collective Effort Model and other key motivational theories, looks at the current level of understanding of both motivation losses and gains in groups. Individual Motivation within Groups is a vital resource for social, organizational, and applied psychologists as well as academics and researchers in these fields and related areas such as leadership and team performance.


  • Explores individual motivation in multiple contexts such as work teams, educational settings, sports teams, and more
  • Highlights recent research advances, future directions, and linkages with related research areas
  • Discusses cross-cultural and international implications
  • Examines factors that detract from and contribute to group motivation/individual motivation within groups

Cuprins

Part 1: Foundations
1. Social Loafing and Motivation Gains in Groups: An Integrative Review
Part 2: Advances and Applications
2. Social Loafing in Organizational Work Groups: The Mitigating Effect of Servant Leadership
3. Individual Motivation, Team Learning, and Performance in Collaborative Academic Contexts
4. Effort Losses and Effort Gains in Sports Teams
5. Back to the Future: The Kohler Motivation Gain in Exergames
6. Sustaining Individual Motivation in High-Demand Team Environments
7. Temporal Stability of Effort Gains in Teams
Part 3: Linkages
8. Social Loafing in the Management of Social Dilemmas
9. Social Facilitation and Social Loafing: Opposite Sides of the Same Coin
10. Ostracism and Motivation in Groups

Recenzii

"Steve Karau is a preeminent scholar known for his pioneering research on how working in groups can lead individuals to work especially hard, while at other times lead to social loafing.  This book integrates classic and contemporary research conducted across a variety settings, which through the lens of the Collective Effort Model, provides new insights into when and why individuals expend high or low levels of effort when working in groups and teams.  With chapters written by leading experts, this book seamlessly integrates basic and applied work in a clear and compelling fashion.  This is an incredibly important book which I expect will aid practitioners in their quest to design better groups, while also aiding researchers in stimulating future work on this topic." -- Robert B. Lount, Jr., Professor of Organizational Behavior, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, USA
"For this edited volume, Dr. Steven Karau has assembled an impressive team of top scientists to provide a cutting-edge review and analysis of the motivational processes that influence group productivity and other critical outcomes. While the book is highly scholarly, reflecting the expertise of the well-known authors, the writing is consistently assessible. Therefore, it will appeal not only to scholars, but also to anyone interested in understanding the psychological and social dynamics that influence the degree to which people exhibit effort, focus, pride, cooperation, and other key intragroup attitude, emotions, and behaviors. While much of the book focuses on work, academic, and sports settings, the basic principles, that are clearly illuminated, are applicable to any setting involving relatively small groups of people working together toward a common goal. It’s an excellent and much needed book that is sure to advance the science of group dynamics in general and stimulate new empirical work and theoretical developments. Given the scholarly yet accessible nature of the work, and the well-thought-out organization (10 chapters couched under three sections), I can also see this book being adopted for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in social psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, business, management, or a related area." --  Jay W. Jackson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Director, Intergroup Relations Lab, Purdue.
"Steve Karau's excellent Individual Motivation with Groups explains everything there is to know about the personal and interpersonal factors that cause groups of highly talented individuals to so often fail to reach their potential. Its chapters, written by the preeminent researchers in the study of motivation, performance, and team science, explain some of the field's greatest mysteries: When do other people spur us to work harder, and when do they sap our motivational zeal? What can be done to push groups to reach beyond their limitations, working at the highest level of performance possible? When does a group become greater than the sum of its parts? Each chapter summarizes prior research investigating motivation and performance—which is some of the most creative and theoretical rich work in the field of group dynamics—before offering an accessible interpretation of the work and suggestions for improving a group's performance. Anyone who truly cares about groups—their dynamics, their efficiencies, and the foibles—will want to read every one of the excellent chapters in this book." -- Donelson R. Forsyth, Professor, University of Richmond