social facilitation
... Ways in which one could take advantage of positive social facilitation effects and reduce negative social facilitation effects would be to gain more experience in that specific field. ... This contributes to the phenomenon known as social loafing, which is the tendency for people to exert less effort on an additive task as the size of the group increases. The social impact theory explains social loafing in terms of diffused responsibility in that the larger the size of a group, the less each member is influenced by the social forces acting on the group. ... This type of situation will likely result in social loafing. Social loafing can have a serious negative impact on organizational performance and there are 4 actions that can be taken to help avoid this. ... Lastly, threatening to punish workers who are “taking it easy” may reduce social loafing and increase group performance as well.