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Article
Publication Date
2015
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.
Recommended Citation
Corgnet, B., Hernán-Gonzalez, R., & McCarter, M.W. (2015). The role of the decision-making regime on cooperation in a workgroup social dilemma: An examination of cyberloafing. Games 6: 588-603. doi: 10.3390/g6040588
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This article was originally published in Games, volume 6, in 2015. DOI: 10.3390/g6040588