Does Money Increase Your Motivation?

Important: You must watch the W3 Now What? video in the 'Required Excersises' folder in order to answer this discussion question.

Imagine that a coworker is complaining to you about being upset after learning that another coworker is being paid more despite the complaining coworker being at the company a year longer.

Watch the “Now What?” video and discuss the following questions:

• What role do rewards play in this situation? How do the surface and symbolic values of the rewards influence what happens?
• In chapter 5 we discussed equity theory. How do the concepts from equity theory apply to this situation?
• As a manager, what could you have done to better handle the situation? Why would this be a better solution? Please provide 1-2 examples to support your viewpoints that other learners will be able to assess and debate within our weekly discussion forum.

Should be 75-150 words in length