Just as she had feared, Rayne Pacek's group did not equally share in the work for completing the paper in her management class. She and two other members of the group did their shares as well as the work of the fourth member. This fourth member's contribution to the group could best be described as
A) social loafing.
B) free riding.
C) norming.
D) group induced loafing.
E) internal riding.

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Free riding describes a situation where one or more members of a group do not contribute their fair share of work, relying on others to complete tasks. This matches the scenario where the fourth member did not do their share of the work for the paper.

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