Inputs in this context include the employee's time, expertise's, qualifications, experiences, intangible personal qualities such as drive and ambition, and interpersonal skills.
Outcomes included receive reward and flexible work arrangement. Employees who perceive inequity or injustice will seek to reduce it, either by distorting inputs and/ or outcomes in their own minds ( 'cognitive distortion), directly altering inputs and/ or outcomes, or leaving the organisation.