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You graduated from college two years ago and began working at Hampstead Electronics. You have received good

performance evaluations and a raise. You just found out that a recent college graduate with no experience has been hired
at a higher salary than you are now making.
Your referent comparison for equity theory is termed xxxxxx.
A) self-inside
B) self-outside
C) other-inside
D) other-outside
E) inside-outside

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Answer:

C) other-inside

Step-by-step explanation:

The equity theory states that individuals within organization are motivated by fairness, and its motivation and impulse and effort they put into their work directly corresponds the fairness in treatment they see with themselves or other workers, in this case would be other, since he is comparissing to someone else, and inside, since it´s a coworker, or someone else working within the same organization.

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