Fundamentals of Human Resource Management 3rd Edition by Raymond Andrew Noe, Patrick Wright, John Hollenbeck,Barry Gerhart

Exercise 5

Suppose you work in the HR department of a manufacturing company that is planning to enrich jobs by having production workers work in teams and rotate through various jobs. The pay structure will have to be adjusted to fit this new work design. How would you expect the employees to evaluate the fairness of their pay in their redesigned jobs In terms of equity theory, what comparisons would they be likely to make