We
must have experienced group working. However, there are always a few people who
don’t do anything but just want to enjoy the fruits of other’s labor. When you
ask questions about projects in Facebook group, they just click “LIKE” WITHOUT any reply.
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Why
are they so indifferent (and make their leader go bananas)?
There
is a significant term called Bystander Effect/ Ringelmann Effect in social psychology. (Besides, the
most famous case of this theorem is “Murder of Kitty Genovese”. Click the
link if you are interested in that.)
It
states that if there is only one person in an emergency, he/ she will help
solve the problem out of sense of responsibility. Nevertheless, if there are
many people on the spot, most people do nothing because they think “other
people will stand up for the situation, so none of my business”.
Ringelman’s experiment shows the thoughts of people. He made subjects (受試者) pull the objects. He discovered that the
more people pulled the objects, the fewer efforts they made. Unexpectedly, the
average weight group of people can pull is less than the single one does!!
So… HOW can
we prevent the troublesome problem?
Well, you can assign specific work to others.
Since they can’t shirk their duty, they have to finish the work by themselves. Besides,
supervise their schedule progress regularly lest they delay the work. Moreover,
emphasizing the punishment and reward improves their efficiency.
Ok, now I have to push my team members to do
the report….
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YES!!! It's a problem in a team work.....However, it is a necessary evil to do the team work. Since sometimes the topic we discussed are too difficult for a person to solve. Maybe what we can do just "looking forward to it"?(all the people will start their own work) XD
回覆刪除Yes, I agree with you. Teamwork is still important. We can't deny that power of groups is much more considerable than power of only one person... if you have the "carry" team members. XD
刪除Yes,but when all of the people are unfamiliar,there's usually no one comes out to assign work.:(
回覆刪除I can't agree with you more. It is really embarrassing. >_<
刪除I take a course which divide us into groups for a big report this semester,
回覆刪除however, there are NINE students per group!!!
so terrible. Q_Q...
Yes, it is really troublesome. Assigning the work and monitoring everyone's progress are difficult for the group with too many people....
刪除I have known this effect before, and I quite agree with this theorem since I often ignore what happened in public. Maybe I should change my attitude toward such situation.
回覆刪除So do I...
刪除I also try to be much more positive to concern about the news.
I'm a little bit shocked when I saw that a group of people pulled lighter weight than a single person.....
回覆刪除Sometimes selfishness is very disappointing I think.
Fortunately, most team leaders distribute works to group members nowadays I guess. XD
I am also shocked. Everyone emphasizing "Unity is strength."
刪除Yes, it is true, 田玉薇. But a few team leaders in the high school do all the work themselves because no members want to help. XD
Yeah I always can't get it why Chinese like the phrase so much......==
刪除That's pretty sad!!!!! At least my high school classmates wouldn't do that sort of thing, that's certainly not cool.......
Your high school classmates are really good and responsible!
刪除I am very envious of you! > <