Free-Riding:
benefitting from the efforts of the other group members while contributing no effort in
the performance of the group task. |
A team members' effort
is dispensable if success can be achieved without any effort on that persons' part.
Though similar, free-riding is different from social loafing. With social loafing, there is
a reduction in effort because individual efforts cannot be identified. Whereas with
free-riding, there is no effort applied by an individual because any effort would be
dispensable. |