You are a graduate student in the Biology department at Fair University.You have several graduate student friends who have graduate appointments in the business department and the English department.While everyone's compensation and employee benefits are exactly the same,your department requires you to always show-up and tutor students at least four hours each day and to serve on one university committee each semester.Graduate students at the other departments are not required by their management to follow these rules.Lately,you are doing your best to limit your daily obligation to 2 ½ to 3 hours each day.Relating your situation to one of the theories we have studied,your goal of limiting inputs is explained by expectancy theory.

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Expectancy theory suggests that individuals are motivated to act in a certain way based on the expected outcome or reward. Limiting inputs due to perceived unfairness in workload compared to peers aligns more with equity theory, which focuses on fairness and balance in input-output ratios.

You Are a Graduate Student in the Biology Department at Fair