Individual Motivation within Groups

Steven J. Karau is a management professor at Southern Illinois University, teaching courses in organizational behavior, human resources, and social responsibility. He conducts research on a range of organizational behavior issues, with a special focus on motivation within groups, team performance, personality, and ethics. He has published more than 40 articles in a variety of top psychology and management journals and co-developed the Collective Effort Model of individual motivation on group tasks, and Role Congruity Theory of prejudice toward female leaders. His research on social loafing was featured on an episode of ABC News’ 20/20.

Part 1: Foundations 1. Social Loafing and Motivation Gains in Groups: An Integrative Review

Part 2: Advances and Applications 2. Social Loafing in Organizational Work Groups: The Mitigating Effect of Servant Leadership 3. Individual Motivation, Team Learning, and Performance in Collaborative Academic Contexts 4. Effort Losses and Effort Gains in Sports Teams 5. Back to the Future: The Kohler Motivation Gain in Exergames 6. Sustaining Individual Motivation in High-Demand Team Environments 7. Temporal Stability of Effort Gains in Teams

Part 3: Linkages 8. Social Loafing in the Management of Social Dilemmas 9. Social Facilitation and Social Loafing: Opposite Sides of the Same Coin 10. Ostracism and Motivation in Groups