Author Question: If diffusion of responsibility is a valid explanation of social loafing, which of the following ... (Read 124 times)

biggirl4568 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

If diffusion of responsibility is a valid explanation of social loafing, which of the following would be expected to REDUCE social loafing in a group of workers?

a. evaluating the performance of the group as a whole.
b. monitoring the performance of each individual worker.
c. setting a performance goal for the group as a whole.
d. offering the group a reward for meeting a performance goal.

Question 2

If the null hypothesis is true, what value should we expect for the F-ratio? Why?

What will be an ideal response?

ebenov · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

If the null hypothesis is true, we would expect the F-ratio to be 1 or very close to 1 . We expect this because the null hypothesis states that there are no differences between the conditions and this means that the between-groups variance should be about the same as the within-groups variance, thus leading to an F-ratio of about 1.