Selected communication behaviors of a supervisor with eight-member, ex
perimentally created workgroups were varied to create relative conditions
of "overreward "or "underreward. " Information timeliness, receptive
ness to subordinates' questions, and provision of verbal approval state
ments were manipulated to create inequities in experimental groups. Mea
surements sought to determine if subjects perceived communication ineq
uity and to what extent their responses to it were consistent with previous
equity theory testing.
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