Organization generally seek to pay the least possible to minimize costs, so fairness means a wage or salary that is adequate for the demands and requirements of the job. Of course, fairness is a tow-way street. Employees, too, want fair compensation. As we pointed out in our in our earlier discussion of motivation, if employees perceive an imbalance in their efforts-rewards ratio to some comparative standard, they will act to correct the inequity. Thus, both employers and employees pursue fairness.