Working Harder or Hardly Working? Posting Performance Eliminates Social Loafing and Promotes Social Laboring in Workgroups
研究通过实验发现，公开公布个人绩效能促使员工在群体中比单独工作时表现更好（社会劳动），而不公布则导致群体中表现更差（社会惰化），揭示了社会比较对群体绩效的积极作用。
The current paper examines how posting performance—an act that triggers increased social comparisons between workers—influences employees' motivation when working in groups. In the study, posting employee performance moderated the relationship between groupwork and employee motivation. When individual performance was publicly posted in the workplace, employees working in a group performed better than when working alone (i.e., social laboring); however, when individual performance was not posted, employees working in a group performed worse than when working alone (i.e., social loafing). The findings shed light on how social comparisons can have positive implications for employee performance in groups. This paper was accepted by Jesper Sørensen, organizations.