MGT5OBR – Assessment 2 Draft Template

MGT5OBR – Assessment 2 Draft Template
Student Name: Student ID:
Topic: Workshop Time:
Workshop Facilitator Name:
Instructions: Read one of your selected articles and complete this form to the best of your ability. Submit a
copy of the completed form to the link on the LMS. You can mention any parts of the article that you did
not understand or points that you were unclear about.
Author(s): Add lines as necessary
1. J. Stacy Adams
Year of publication:
1963
Volume, Issue, Pages: 67, 5, 422-436
Title of Article: Towards an understanding of inequity
Title of Journal: The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
Transfer the above information into a full reference, following either the current version of APA or
Harvard style guidelines:
Adams, J. S. (1963). Towards an understanding of inequity. The Journal of Abnormal and Social
Psychology, 67(5), 422-436.
Identify key issues, concepts (ideas), propositions or theories that the author(s) discussed in the
literature review. How have these issues informed or influenced the current study and its research
questions? Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words:
The key concepts that have been discussed within the article discusses the theories that pertain to the
social inequities that exist within the given social strata. The article majorly deals with the matters that
pertain to the wage inequities that exist within the given society. The concerned article attempts to
present a discussion on a novel theory of the inequity. This might help in the matters that pertain to the
understanding of the concerned phenomenon of inequity and thereby leading to the theories that
pertain to the control of the practices of inequity.
Briefly note the data collection and analysis methods. Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words:
The article entitled “Towards an understanding of inequity” by Adams (1963) depicts the attempts of the
author for the literature review on the wage inequities that might exist within the given society. The
author of the article tends to discuss the matters that pertain to the creation of the two generalised
postulates that are very closely related to the dissonance theory of the inequity. The data in this case
was collected through the secondary data collection methods from the literature that was reviewed. The
data was analysed through the implementation of the thematic analysis and the analysis of the
hypothesis that was conducted.
Who was studied in this research? Paraphrase – i.e., use your own words:
Adams (1963) in the article entitled “Towards an understanding of inequity” attempts to analyse the
existing literature on the matters that pertain to the wage inequities that might exist within the given
society. The author further attempts a discussion on the matters that pertain to the theories that pertain