Slackers

Shirking is a redirect to this article. For the economic analysis of shirking see Shirking (Business Administration) .

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Slacker refers to a person who refuses to take over or perform an activity. In business administration , it is understood to mean (analogous to the English term: shirking ) the deliberate reluctance to perform , especially by employees. “Shirking” is also treated as a problem in wage theory and in the economic theory of transaction costs (especially in the case of team production). The term has also found its way into the public discussion with regard to the military .

etymology

The word is based on the pattern of the origin names in -berger (as well as Schlauberger ) and is based on the verb “push oneself”, for which the connotation “secretly get away” has been used since the 13th century.

Interpretations

Under shirking means the reduction of own use under the condition of imperfect control. The work or task not done in this way must then be taken over by others. The slacker likes to avoid work. He plays a typical individual role. Superiors should lead him in an encouraging way, observing leadership rules.

Use of the term in politics

Desertion

→ Main articles : desertion , disobedience  and high treason

At the end of the First World War, there was a large number of German soldiers no longer participating. The military bureaucracy covered this mass phenomenon with the derogatory term "shirking". From a legal point of view, it was sometimes a matter of norms against elements of the Military Criminal Code for the German Reich of 1872.

Conscientious objection

→ Main articles : Conscientious objection  and total conscientious objection

In the course of the 1968 movement and the sudden increase in the number of conscientious objectors , the term came back into public discussion.

Avoid the "German greeting"

Slackers Alley with a bronze track

In Munich , Viscardigasse was popularly referred to as Drückebergergasse during and after the Nazi era , because using it you could bypass the Nazi guards in front of the Feldherrnhalle and thus not have to pay the " German greeting ".

literature

• Louis De Alessi: Nature and Methodological Foundations of Some Recent Extensions of Economic Theory. In: Gerard Radnitzky , Peter Bernholz (Ed.): Economic Imperialism. The Economic Approach Applied Outside the Field of Economics. Paragon House Publishers, New York NY 1987, ISBN 0-943852-11-0 , p. 51 ff.
• Richard Freeman, Douglas Kruse, Joseph Blasi: Worker Responses to Shirking under shared Capitalism. NBER Working Paper No. 14227, August 2008.
• Lutz von Rosenstiel : Leadership with reluctance to perform . In: Alfred Kieser , Gerhard Reber , Rolf Wunderer (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary of leadership (= Encyclopedia of Business Administration. Vol. 10). 2nd, newly designed and expanded edition. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7910-8043-1 , Sp. 1431-1442.

See also

• Efficiency wage
• Procrastination

Web links

Commons : Laziness  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Quitters  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dictionary Leo shirk .
   Oxford Dictionaries shirk . (accessed on November 2, 2015)
2. ^ Claus Rothenbücher: Reluctance to perform in the company. Motivation deficits and inadequate personnel management as the cause for a reduction in the performance level of employees (= Personnel Management Series. Vol. 11). Kovač, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8300-2872-7 (also: Frankfurt am Main, university, diploma thesis).
3. ^ The German dictionary. Lexicographical Institute, Munich 1985, p. 285.
4. ↑ Horst-Joachim Rahn : Successful team leadership (= workbooks leadership psychology. Vol. 16). 6th edition. Windmühle, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937444-66-6 , p. 68.
5. ↑ see Wolfram Wette , Die Slackberger. In: Die Zeit , May 31, 1991.
6. ^ Eva Troelenberg: Munich as the "capital of movement".