Midway Through His First Semester, One of the Teams in Samir's

question 35

Multiple Choice

Midway through his first semester, one of the teams in Samir's class came to him with a problem. Of the four team members, all of them were doing their jobs except Rami. The group had agreed to have Rami as a member since they all knew he had a high GPA and worked hard on all of his individual assignments. However, as a team member the group agreed that they were not getting Rami's best efforts. They felt like he was not working as hard as a group member as he was as an individual. Samir quickly diagnosed the problem as one of ________.

• A) social loafing
• B) role conflict
• C) status differentials
• D) groupthink

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