Corgnet, BriceHernán-González, RobertoMcCarter, Matthew W.2021-04-192021-04-192015-11-05Games 6 (4): 588-603 (2015)https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/350A 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.Attribution 4.0 United Stateshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/autocratic decision-makingcyberloafinggroup votingsocial dilemmaworkgroup performanceArticle2021-04-19