What does SET stand for?

Together, Gouldner's norm of reciprocity and Blau's social exchange theory look to explain the giving and taking that occurs within organizations.

The theoretical concept is grounded in the social exchange theory (Sparrowe and Liden, 1997).

The social exchange theory (Blau, 1964) provides the theoretical framework to rationalize the motivation behind managers undertaking empowerment interventions.

Further, theories of motivation, such as goal setting theory, actualization theory (Maslow, 1970) Herzberg's two-factor theory (Hertzberg, 1982), cognitive theory (Gross, 1992), expectancy theory (Tolman, 1959), social exchange theory (Thibaut and Kelley, 1959) etc.

Gillis noted that organizational trust is rooted in two communication theories that help explain how people interact within organizations: * Social exchange theory assumes that people gauge the outcomes of interactions and rationally choose the action that will provide the best result for them based on the track record of past exchanges, shared values and communication strategies.

It was organized around the notion of conceptual frameworks with articles on evolutionary psychology, social exchange theory, symbolic interactionism, social learning theory, and systems theory.

Understanding attrition in female competitive gymnastics: Applying social exchange theory.

A particularly good example of this process is provided by social exchange theory (Cosmides, 1989; Cosmides & Tooby, 1989b) where knowledge of the constraints inherent in a paleolithic social environment revealed that humans must have evolved unique abilities to process information if they were to be successful in solving their adaptive problems and that the design features of these evolved cognitive mechanisms must operate on a cost-benefit representation of the exchange interaction and be able to perform an inferential procedure which enhances the probability of detecting cheating on a social contract.