Author Question: Imagine you are an efficiency consultant with social psychological training and the local pickle ... (Read 44 times)

jon_i · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Imagine you are an efficiency consultant with social psychological training and the local pickle company asks you to help it increase individual pickle packing productivity. Considering the phenomenon of social loafing, you should recommend

A) that the number of employees packing pickles should be increased quickly.
B) that the number of employees packing pickles should be increased slowly over time.
C) that the employees packing pickles should wear uniforms.
D) that individual packing productivity be made identifiable in some way.

Question 2

Ringelmann (1913) proposed that social loafing could partly be a result of

A) overly enthusiastic employees who worked too fast and made mistakes.
B) reduced efficiency due to poor coordination among workers.
C) reduced efficiency due to negative stereotypes among workers.
D) workers who were poorly trained.