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Getting Smart: How to Avoid the Free Rider Problem in Teams
Posted 05/17/2016 02:00PM
May 17, 2016 - There's always a team member that doesn't pull their weight. In economics this is called a free rider problem—people who benefit from resources they don't pay for. Wharton professor and author of Originals Adam Grant (building on an old meta analysis by Karau and Williams identified a series of factors that encourage people to contribute their fair share. [read more]