The Rules of Social Exchange: Unchanged but More Important Than Ever
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2018
Abstract
Social exchange theory (SET) is one of the most prominent and well-known theories in the organizational sciences literature (Cropanzano & Mitchell, 2005). In the focal article, Chernyak-Hai and Rabenu (2018) asserted that SET needs to be adjusted to account for changes in the nature of work, workers, and workplace characteristics. Specifically, they identify that workplaces are now more volatile, complex, uncertain, and ambiguous (Bennett & Lemoine, 2014), and work itself has become more flexible, virtual, and technology dependent; accordingly, today's workers are sourced from a global talent pool and more frequently occupy nontraditional employment arrangements (e.g., freelancing). It is undisputable that the workplace landscape is vastly different from that of the workplace landscape during which early forms of SET were originally articulated (Gouldner, 1960; Homans, 1958).
Publication Title
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Volume
11
Issue
3
First Page
535
Last Page
541
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/iop.2018.108
ISSN
17549426
E-ISSN
17549434
Citation Information
Frieder. (2018). The Rules of Social Exchange: Unchanged but More Important Than Ever. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 11(3), 535–541. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2018.108