Management MGT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Loafing
18 Aug 2016
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It"s immoral to buy the right to pollute. U. s. wanted countries to commit themselves to restrains on emissions and let them buy and sell the right to pollute. Polluting rights make it easier to meet the obligations but undermine the ethic we should try to foster. Creates loopholes that could enable wealthy countries to evade their obligations. Turning pollution into a commodity removes the moral stigma associated with it. Undermines the sense of shared responsibilities between countries. Response: when countries know they can profit or regulations can be met, they will be more likely to agree to reduce the total amount of permitted pollution over time. When people work in groups, they work less hard then than they ought to. Social loafing is when an individual thinks his or her contribution to the group cannot be measured, and thus tends to slack off. Perhaps it"s not from lack of individual effort, but from group inefficiency.
