Specific goals increase performance, and difficult goals, when accepted, result in higher performance than easy goals.

An employee compares her/his job's inputs-outcomes ratio with that of referents.

If the employee perceives inequity, she/he will act to correct the inequity:

Lower productivity
Reduced quality
Increased absenteeism
Voluntary resignation.
(J. Stacey Adams, 1965)

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