Principles of compliance in Personal Relationships and the Workplace

Principles of compliance in Personal Relationships and the Workplace

Instructions: 3-4 page Paper

(1) Consider the various ways that the principles of compliance have influenced your own choices in your relationships or your actions in the workplace.

(2) For example, when did they play a role in your choice to pursue a relationship or a job?

(3) How have they influenced the continuing development of your relationships or work habits, and /or your decisions to stay in relationships or jobs that aren’t ideal?

(4) Have they also influenced decisions you’ve made to leave relationships or jobs?

(5) Identify two or three examples that seem to best illustrate the impact of these psychological principles on your relationships and discuss them in a 3-4 page paper.

Your discussion of each example should include:

1. The name of the principle that affected you:
2. How it played a role in that relationship or workplace choice:
3. Your reflections on that choice, knowing what you know now about how your choice was influenced by a principle of compliance.

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The principle of compliance is a type of social influence where people tend to do what they have been requested by someone else.

The first principle of compliance is reciprocity which states that after being provided a concession or a favor at one point, one should not object complying with a request from the person who provided the favor. There are three reciprocity based tactics and one of them is unsolicited gift. This tactic is of the opinion that once you provide people with something, they should reciprocate. Another reciprocity…..

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