Equity Theory of Employee Motivation. John Stacey Adams' Equity Theory argues that employees are motivated when they perceive their treatment in the workplace to be fair and unmotivated when ...

Workplace motivation is based on five major theories, ... The equity theory of John Stacey Adams is based on the concept of fair treatment and the ways in which it helps to motivate workers.

By Vidya Hattangadi. Adams’ Equity Theory, also known as the Equity Theory of Motivation, was developed in 1963 by John Stacey Adams, a Belgian psychologist known for workplace behaviour.

The higher paid employees’ frustration would have been predicted by J. Stacey Adams, the organizational psychologist who, in the 1960s, laid the foundation for the equity theory of motivation ...