A burgeoning problem facing organizations is the loss of workgroup productivity due to cyberloafing. The current paper examines how changes in the decision-making rights about what workgroup members can do on the job affect cyberloafing and subsequent work productivity. We compare two different...

In this paper we analyze the impact of enhancement biases on team formation. We show that learning positively about team partners can promote cooperation among individuals as it reduces the negative effect of commonly observed self-enhancement biases. This is the case because evaluating peers...

There exists extensive evidence that people learn positively about themselves. We build on this finding to develop a model of team formation in the workplace. We show that learning positively about oneself systematically undermines the formation of teams. Agents becoming overconfident tend to...