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maychende

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What are some techniques for reducing social loafing?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Brainstorming involves a group coming up with new ideas, while avoiding ________ of those ideas.
 
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Answer to Question 1

Answer:
Techniques for reducing social loafing include:
1) most obvious is to make participants' contributions identifiable.
2) groups can increase members' commitment to successful task performance.
3) increase the apparent importance or value of a task.
4) as much as possible, try to reduce redundancy of member contributions.
5) members should be given some standards of performance, either compared to others or to their own past performance.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: criticism



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