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Norm of reciprocity

David R. Hekman and colleagues (2009) recently found that professional employees, like doctors and lawyers, are most likely to repay POS with better performance when such workers have high levels of organizational identification combined with low levels of professional identification.



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John Thibaut

The early variations of Social Exchange Theory stem from Alvin Ward Gouldner's (1960) norm of reciprocity, which simply argues that people ought to return benefits given to them in a relationship.