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===Division of labor===
Diffusion of responsibility can manifest itself in the workplace when tasks are assigned to individuals in terms of [[Division of labour|division of labor]]. In an economics context, diffusion of responsibility can be observed in groups when a leader assigns tasks to individuals. To promote the concept of fairness, the leader will generally assign an equal amount of work to individuals within the group. This is in part due to the idea that people in general want to seem fair and kind.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Handbook of Experimental Economics: Volume 2|last=Kagel|first=John|year=1995|isbn=9781400883172|pages=249}}</ref>

According to [[Albert Bandura]], diffusion of responsibility can occur when managers create subtasks in an organization. When people are subdivided into individual tasks they can often forget their role to the organization as a whole and get narrow minded into focusing on their own role. Individuals may unknowingly diffuse their responsibility to an organization by only doing what is required of them in their respective tasks. This is because their focus for accountability is diverted from the organization to their individualized tasks.<ref name=Bandura1999>{{cite journal |last1=Bandura |first1=Albert |title=Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities |journal=Personality and Social Psychology Review |date=August 1999 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=193–209 |doi=10.1207/s15327957pspr0303_3 |pmid=15661671 |citeseerx=10.1.1.596.5502 |s2cid=1589183 }}</ref>