Productivity loss in performance groups: people who see themselves as average do not engage in social loafing

Group Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 118-131

  Huguet, Pascal ^a,b   Charbonnier, Emmanuelle ^a   Monteil, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

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EID: 0004713482     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2699.3.2.118     Document Type: Article

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