Investigating Social Loafing Behavior in Higher Education Institutes: A Case of Public University

The purpose of this study is to order the factors determining social loafing hierarchically based on their importance levels, and then suggest cautions against social loafing caused by those factors and managing social loafing actions caused by them. In this concept, 11 academic staff in a public university, have made pairwise comparisons of 19 factors under three main factors determined by both literature and authors, and these compared factors are analyzed and ordered by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. The research is important in terms of determining the social loafing factors proposed by academicians and determining how to prevent them depending on the factors that influence this counterproductive behaviors