You are a graduate teaching assistant in the biology department at Fairview University. You have several graduate student friend
s 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. Graduates 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 2½ to 3 hours each day. The motivational theory that most closely correlates with your actions is: _________________?
Equity theory is a theory that was developed by John Stacey Adams in 1963. This states that fairness and equity are essential components in a person's motivation. The theory states that people are motivated by fairness, which means that they might lose their motivation if they notice inequities in their group or their referent group. This is the case in this example. As you know that graduate students at other departments are not required to follow the tutoring rules, you are more likely to lose your motivation to follow this rule.
Well for one, they can directly reccomend or discourage you from wearing certain clothing. In addition, if many of your friends are wearing the same piece of clothing or a similar fasion, then you may be influenced to as well, both consiously and subconsciously.
