A person working in a team shows much less efficiency than if he worked himself. And this does not depend at all on the complexity of the task.
Have you ever noticed that completing a task with someone in a pair, you do not give all your best? At a time when you have to cope with various kinds of tasks yourself, you are doing everything that is possible in your power and even more. This is not an accident, there is an explanation for this behavior. This behavior is defined in the scientific world as social laziness, or the Ringelmann effect.
What is it and who is Ringelman? It's simple, Ringelmann is a French psychologist who conducted a series of psychological experiments on people about a hundred years ago. The purpose and task of which was to prove that a person working in a team shows efficiency much less than if he worked himself. And this does not depend at all on the complexity of the task.
An interesting experiment was carried out many years ago, for this they took a group of people, the so-called experimental subjects. They were given the task of lifting the maximum number of kilograms they can. After that, people were divided into pairs and they had to do the same, but in pairs. The results of the experiment shocked scientists. The more people in the group, the less weight each of them could lift compared to the result when they worked on their own. This effect was called social laziness.
Explaining human behavior is very simple. For if a person works himself, then he has no one to rely on and he gives all the best, working for the result. But if a person works in a team, then his logic is very different from the logic of independent work. Working in a team, a person counts on others, on the fact that someone will do something for him, that he will not be able to finish it or not give his best. And no one will notice that he is philonite or does not modify it.
As the number of participants in the group increased, the achievement rate for each dropped. Therefore, teams from large groups of people inhibit the personal development of an individual and do not always have a positive effect on the result as a whole. This is how the human psyche works. Sometimes, in order to achieve maximum results, bosses should not group their employees, otherwise they, on the contrary, relax. This is how life is arranged, there are many parasites in the team that do not work, but skillfully know how to pretend to be active. While someone is really working hard, but his work is overlooked and often not appreciated.
No amount of social technology, training or attitudes can break human thinking. Managers should take this factor into account in their work and conclude that in the group the employee's personal coefficient of opportunity is falling.
