You and Three Team Members Just Won the Sales Competition

Multiple Choice

You and three team members just won the sales competition at work and received $5000 each as a bonus. The team worked well together, and everyone put in equal effort. According to equity theory, what is your likely response?

A) to not work as hard
B) to ask for a promotion or a raise
C) to increase your efforts next month to justify the reward
D) to leave things as they are