Social Facilitation effects of Groups on the Individual

Social Facilitation effects of Groups on the Individual:

The social facilitation effect refers to the influence of the presence of others on an individual’s performance.  It is the tendency for performance to improve or decline in response to the presence of others.

While this effect is not entirely a group phenomenon-people can work in the presence of others and not to be good members-the group situation is more likely to provide the condition for social facilitation to occur. The research on social facilitation tells us that performance of simple task tends to be speeded up and done accurately in the presence of others. When the work is more complex, the presence of others is likely to have a negative effect. The assumptions of this research relates to training and development. People perform better task in other’s presence if the task is very well learned and vice-versa.