Abstract

Social loafing behavior refers to the situation in organizations where organizations collectively produce products or services, hiding from the duties and responsibilities of employees and hiding within the group. Social loafing behavior exhibited by employees may have negative consequences for organizations. The phenomenon of work alienation is also a negative situation experienced by employees due to many different reasons. As in social loafing behavior, work alienation behavior can have negative consequences for organizations. In this study, the relationship between work alienation and social loafing behaviors of the employees of an institutional enterprise in Ankara was investigated. In the study, the sub-dimensions of the variables as a result of factor analysis emerged. The relationship between the variables and the sub-dimensions of the variables formed as a result of the analysis were investigated. The data were collected by using survey method. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 21 package program. First of all, descriptive statistics, frequency and normality were obtained and correlation and regression analyzes were performed. Then, t-Test and One-Way Variance (ANOVA) were performed. As a result of the analysis, it was found that there was a positive and significant relationship between work alienation and social loafing behavior. As a result of the regression analysis, it was found that work alienation had a positive and significant effect on the social loafing. In addition, it was found that there was no significant difference in terms of social loafing in terms of age, working time and gender arising from the demographic characteristics of the participants.

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