Question

LivWell Biotechnology Company has four locations in California. You work as a marketing specialist at the oldest and southernmost location. Your colleagues at the three other locations get an hour off each day to work out because there are workout facilities at each of their locations. You know that you make a little more money than they do, but after measuring the cost of stopping off at the gym on your way home each evening, you realize that your extra compensation does not cover the cost of the membership. You are keeping tabs on marketing positions that may open at the company's other sites. Equity theory suggests that you are motivated to bring a sense of fairness to what you perceive as an inequality.

a. True
b. Fasle

Answer 1

b. Fasle

Step-by-step explanation:

Saying that, according to equity theory, I would be motivated to bring a sense of fairness to what I perceive as an inequality implies that I am trying to convince myself that the inequality is not such, and that´s not the case. If I´m looking to relocate to another place with a better input and output ratio, it means that I recognize the situation as unfair, which is my sense of fairness, meaning what I think about the situation and how fair it is.

In Adams' Equity Theory model, the sense of fairness that influences motivation is built by a person based on the comparison between their input and output ratio with the ratio of others considered to be in a similar situation.