1. Using the variables outlined in Adams's equity theory, describe how you believe feelings of inequity would evolve in the following circumstances:

• non-union workers in a manufacturing comparing themselves to union workers in another manufacturing plant in the same town
• a Hispanic worker passed over for promotion three times in favor of a Caucasian worker with less experience
• the glass ceiling in any company

2. Identify five companies or professions that you believe would be best suited to employee involvement programs. Explain your reasoning. Identify five companies or professions that would be least suited to employee involvement programs. Explain your reasoning.

3. In the field of marketing, the product life-cycle model explains how a product reaches the market (introduction), grows, reaches maturity or saturation, begins to decline, and dies. The same model has been applied to business types, such as drive-in theaters and mom-and-pop grocery stores. Do these analogies bear any resemblance to the stages of group development described in this chapter? What are the primary similarities and differences?