Inequity In Social Exchange
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Certain employees will experience unfairness when their inputs are low but their rewards are high.
“Therefore, certain employees will experience unfairness when their inputs are low but their rewards are high.”
From The New Era Workplace Relationships: Is Social Exchange Theory Still Relevant? (2018) · cites this paper as Adams (1965)
Equity theory views any employment relationship as an exchange relationship between employee and organization.
“Equity theory (Adams, 1963(Adams, , 1965) ) as a classic theory to explain job satisfaction (Klein, 1973) views any employment relationship as an exchange relationship between employee and organization.”
Individuals closely examine the outcome/input ratio in the exchange relationship with their organization.
“According to equity theory (Adams, 1963(Adams, , 1965)), individuals closely examine the outcome/input ratio in the exchange relationship with their organization.”
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- Authors
- Adams, J. S.
- Affiliations
- General Electric (United States) (US)
- Corresponding author
- Adams, J. Stacy
- Venue
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 1965
- Pages
- 267-299
- ISSN
- 0065-2601 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2145520874
- Cited by
- 10,818
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 384 · 2025: 409 · 2024: 393 · 2023: 436 · 2022: 408 · 2021: 442 · 2020: 451 · 2019: 432 · 2018: 423 · 2017: 462 · 2016: 434 · 2015: 478 · 2014: 491 · 2013: 455 · 2012: 500
- FWCI
- 170.30
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Advances in experimental social psychology (publishedVersion)
- Intellectum (Universidad de La Sabana) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Keywords
- social exchange, perceived injustice, relative deprivation, distributive justice, perceived justice, motivation, morale, social control
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