Individual Motivation within Groups: Performance in Work, Academic, and Sports Teams

Individual Motivation Within Groups: Performance in Work, Academic, and Sports Teams addresses the relationships between social loafing and motivation research, addressing longstanding, key psychological phenomena, such as social dilemmas, social facilitation and ostracism. Each chapter creates connections to related topics, including leadership, performance in learning groups, isolated teams, and more. The book provides a summary of the field's history, synthesizes the research, and, using the Collective Effort Model, looks at the current level of understanding of both motivation losses and gains in groups. Applies individual motivation within groups to a variety of contexts, such as work teams, educational settings, sports teams, and moreHighlights advances in recent research, future directions and linkages with related research areasDiscusses cross-cultural and international implicationsLooks at what detracts from, and contributes to, group motivationCovers motivational losses that occur when people work in groups INDICE: 1. Social Loafing and Motivation Gains in Groups 2. Social Indispensability and Social Competition as Triggers of Effort Gains in Teams 3. Social Loafing in Organizational Work Groups 4. Individual Motivation, Team Learning, and Performance in Collaborative Academic Contexts 5. Sustaining Individual Motivation in High-Demand Team Environments 6. Effort Gains and Effort Losses in Sports Teams 7. Back to the Future: The Kohler Motivation Gain in Exergames 8. Social Loafing in the Management of Social Dilemmas 9. Social Facilitation and Social Loafing 10. Ostracism and Motivation in Groups

• ISBN: 978-0-12-849867-5
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés