Reciprocity

Throughout the sacred text of the bible, Jesus revealed many truths that resonate and apply to leadership practices of today. Many of those nuggets of truth were spoken in parabolic form. Jesus employed parables in situations when He wanted His listeners to open their minds to some new and abstract content” (Fønebø, 2011, p. 22). Jesus used parables in “everyday situations when He wanted to clarify something, give a response to questions or criticism, or when He was interrupted by incidents”…

Marcel Mauss (2002) in his seminal work The Gift (2002) has said that even though gift-giving is technically a voluntary process and it is allegedly free of any egotism in reality gift giving and receiving is a social obligation and is inundated with self-interest. Mauss adds that the gestures associated with gift-giving, the mask of generosity and disinterestedness, are all mere fictions to appease our sense of propriety. In other words, when people give gifts they do so with the motive of…

effective in achieving the goal of successfully persuading our/your listeners which are reciprocity, scarcity, authority, commitment and consistency, consensus and liking. The identification and understanding of where each principle fit environmentally will assist very well in enhancing your sales position. Principle of Reciprocity Brian Ahearn expressed reciprocity as a mutual exchange or a “give and take principle,” or a principle…

moves in kind, even when these actions are costly without present or future benefits for the reciprocator (Gintis, 2000). This conditional behaviour is called strong reciprocity. Though strong reciprocity applies to both direct and indirect reciprocity, there is very little evidence for strong indirect reciprocity. Social indirect reciprocity has been experimentally analyzed using the helping game (Nowak and Sigmund, 1998) with decisions affected by past behaviour of players leading to the…

growing, return to the beating heart of the forest, gravid with new life. Reciprocity is cultivated between human persons, and ethics emerges as the practice of right relationship within human society. The rest of nature cannot reciprocate our attentions. It can only emerge only if there is some sort of common ground, some common medium through which a mutual exchange can unfold. Language play a big role in the practice of reciprocity. By many indigenous, oral peoples seem to spend just as much…

(Saylororg, 2016) Social psychologist Robert Cialdini [1] offers us six principles of persuasion that are powerful and effective: 1. Reciprocity 2. Scarcity 3. Authority 4. Commitment and consistency 5. Consensus 6. Liking Principle of Reciprocity It has been described as the mutual expectation for exchange of value or service. The principle of reciprocity alludes to the fact that all humans perceive the need to reciprocate especially when they are in receipt of specific favors. (Stategov, 2016)…

1. Reciprocity Relates to the perception that by doing what is requested one will get something in return. It is universally expected that when you provide someone anything he/she will return a favor; this can amount on occasions to just verbal appreciation or gratitude. During this process, the receiving party can be said to ‘owe’ the provider a favor of some sort, therefore the provider has a measure of temporary clout over the receiving party. However, if the provider indicates that is…

the Rule of Reciprocity. I gave equal information in response to some questions and didn’t with others. For example, when talking about Hy-Vee he told me about what it was like working at Hy-Vee in a few sentences. In response I said “I worked at Hy-Vee, I started out as a cashier and then I moved to the kitchen department. When I was in the kitchen I didn’t cook anything, most of the food came out of bags. So it couldn’t be that good.” In this example I used the Rule of Reciprocity fairly well…

throughout multiple cultures, religions, and philosophical ideas. This rule, known collectively as the ethics of reciprocity, appears in Buddhism as “hurt not others with that which pains yourself,” in Judaism as, “though shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” and in other variations throughout Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism. It is important to note, however, that ethics of reciprocity are not only present in religious contexts. Great Philosophers such as John Locke, Voltaire, and Thomas…

Absolute. She is the Other.” (6) A fundamental concept of Other is a reciprocity of self, not exclusive to gender. This exchange is apparent in “primitive societies, in the most ancient mythologies, No group ever defines itself as One without immediately setting up of the Other opposite itself.” (6) Sun-Moon, Day-Night, Good-Evil, God-Lucifer, Yin-Yang, Man-Woman are a few examples. However, a unique element to this reciprocity of Man-Woman is a degree of oppression that appears between man and…