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DOI: 10.1177/002194367801600102 © 1978 Association for Business Communication Worker Responses To Supervisory Communication Inequity: an Exploratory StudyUniversity of North Carolina-Charlotte 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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