Data Analysis of the Relationship Between Social Loafing and Team Effectiveness

Abstract

AbstractIn a fierce market environment, organizations based on teamwork tend to appear more competitive. Therefore, the social loafing behavior in the team and its impact on team effectiveness have increasingly become the focus of scholars. Based on the team effectiveness model and social exchange theory, our study used IBM SPSS Statistics v23.0, which processed and analyzed the questionnaire data, to construct the research model and examine the internal mechanism of leader-member exchange relationship, job characteristics, social loafing, and team effectiveness, clarifying the influence path of social loafing to team effectiveness. The results show that: (1) Social loafing negatively affects team effectiveness; (2) Job characteristics and leader-member exchange relationship positively affect team effectiveness; (3) Job characteristics have a significant moderating effect between social loafing and team effectiveness (4) The leader-member exchange relationship has no moderating effect between social loafing and team effectiveness. Finally, according to our findings, we provide suggestions for management practices and future research.KeywordsSocial loafingJob characteristicsTeam effectivenessLeader-member exchange relationshipData analysis