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.
Equity theory states that if a person perceives that there is an inequity at work,he/she will increase or reduce inputs (in this case: The number of hours available for tutoring each day)in order to bring about a sense of equity to what is believed to be an inequitable situation.

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The situation described aligns with equity theory, not expectancy theory. Equity theory focuses on perceived fairness and adjusting inputs to restore balance, which is what the student is doing by reducing their hours.

You Are a Graduate Student in the Biology Department at Fair