The Role of the Decision-Making Regime on Cooperation in a Workgroup Social Dilemma: An Examination of Cyberloafing
| dc.contributor.author | Corgnet, Brice | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hernán-González, Roberto | |
| dc.contributor.author | McCarter, Matthew W. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-19T14:59:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-19T14:59:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-11-05 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2021-04-19T14:59:04Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | A burgeoning problem facing organizations is the loss of workgroup productivity due to cyberloafing. The current paper examines how changes in the decision-making rights about what workgroup members can do on the job affect cyberloafing and subsequent work productivity. We compare two different types of decision-making regimes: autocratic decision-making and group voting. Using a laboratory experiment to simulate a data-entry organization, we find that, while autocratic decision-making and group voting regimes both curtail cyberloafing (by over 50%), it is only in group voting that there is a substantive improvement (of 38%) in a cyberloafer’s subsequent work performance. Unlike autocratic decision-making, group voting leads to workgroups outperforming the control condition where cyberloafing could not be stopped. Additionally, only in the group voting regime did production levels of cyberloafers and non-loafers converge over time. | |
| dc.description.department | Management | |
| dc.identifier | doi: 10.3390/g6040588 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Games 6 (4): 588-603 (2015) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/350 | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 United States | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | autocratic decision-making | |
| dc.subject | cyberloafing | |
| dc.subject | group voting | |
| dc.subject | social dilemma | |
| dc.subject | workgroup performance | |
| dc.title | The Role of the Decision-Making Regime on Cooperation in a Workgroup Social Dilemma: An Examination of Cyberloafing | |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |