Editing Equity theory (section)

===Inputs and outcomes===

====Inputs====
Inputs are defined as each participant’s contributions to the relational exchange and are viewed as entitling them to rewards or costs.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} The inputs that a participant contributes to a relationship can be either assets – entitling them to rewards – or liabilities - entitling them to costs.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} The entitlement to rewards or costs ascribed to each input vary depending on the relational setting.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} In industrial settings, assets such as capital and manual labor are seen as "relevant inputs" – inputs that legitimately entitle the contributor to rewards. In social settings, assets such as physical beauty and kindness are generally seen as assets entitling the possessor to social rewards.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} Individual traits such as boorishness and cruelty are seen as liabilities entitling the possessor to costs.{{sfnp|Walster|Traupmann|Walster|1978}} Inputs typically include any of the following:

* [[Time]]
*Education 
*Εxperience
*Effort
* [[Loyalty]]
*Hard Work
*Commitment
*Ability
*Adaptability
* [[Flexibility]]
* [[Toleration|Tolerance]]
*Determination
* [[Enthusiasm]]
*Personal [[sacrifice]]
*Trust in supervisors
*Support from co-workers and colleagues
*Skill

====Outcomes====
Outputs are defined as the positive and negative consequences that an individual perceives a participant has incurred as a consequence of their relationship with another.  When the ratio of inputs to outputs is close, then the employee should have much satisfaction with their job.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} Outputs can be both tangible and intangible.<ref name="Love and attraction">{{cite book|editor-last=Cook|editor-first=Mark |title=Love and attraction: an international conference |year=1979 |publisher=Pergamon Press |location=Oxford [u. a.] |isbn=008022234X |pages=309–323 |url=http://www.elainehatfield.com/49.pdf |edition=1 |editor2=Wilson, Glenn|access-date=3 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923234812/http://www.elainehatfield.com/49.pdf|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>  Typical outputs include any of the following:

* [[Job security]]
* [[Salary]]
* [[Employee benefit]]
*Expenses
*Recognition
* [[Reputation]]
* [[Moral responsibility|Responsibility]]
*Sense of achievement
*Praise
*Thanks
*Stimuli