Few would argue that the workplace has changed tremendously over a short period of time and will continue to evolve in the years to come. Regardless of whether change is major or minor, lightning fast or painfully slow, change in and of itself may not be sufficient cause for substantial revision of existing theories, such as social exchange theory (SET); the formulation of entirely new theories; or the creation of new constructs. This is for two reasons: (a) the possibility that we overestimate the impact of change on the workplace, and (b) change can be readily incorporated into our existing theories. We expand on each of these points below and describe several possible macrolevel trends that may impact SET in the years to come.

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SET：仍然是未来工作的相关理论

很少有人会争辩说，工作场所在短时间内发生了巨大变化，并将在未来几年继续发展。无论变化是大是小，快如闪电还是缓慢得令人痛苦，变化本身可能不足以引起对现有理论（例如社会交换理论（SET））进行实质性修改的充分理由；提出全新的理论；或创建新结构。这有两个原因：（a）我们可能高估了变化对工作场所的影响，以及（b）变化可以很容易地融入我们现有的理论中。我们在下面对这些点进行了扩展，并描述了几种可能在未来几年影响 SET 的宏观层面的趋势。