You are a graduate student in the chemistry department at Equity University. Several of your graduate student friends have positions in the business and English departments. While everyone's compensation and employee benefits are exactly the same, your department requires you to always show up and tutor students at least 4 hours each day and to serve on one university committee each semester. Your friends in the other departments are not required to follow these rules. Lately, you are doing your best to limit your daily obligation to 2 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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Equity theory states that if a person perceives that there is an inequity at work, he or she will increase or reduce inputs (in this case the number of hours tutoring each day) in order to bring a sense of equity to what is believed to be an inequitable situation.

You Are a Graduate Student in the Chemistry Department at Equity