equite

(noun)

The lower of the two aristocratic classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.

Related Terms

  • Pontifex Maximus
  • insula
  • plebian
  • pater familias
  • pontifex maximus
  • augury
  • haruspicy
  • plebeian
  • patrician

Examples of equite in the following topics:

  • Fairness

    • Treating employees equitably enables substantial organizational benefits while avoiding unethical operations and the corresponding consequences.
    • Awareness of potential fairness pitfalls, and ensuring that all employees feel valued and equitably treated, can avoid a wide variety of ethical and operational problems, while maximizing employee performance through providing a healthy environment for people to flourish and grow.
    • There are many overt and subtle outcomes of treating employees equitably.
    • While there are many more examples of consequences avoided and benefits achieved from an ethical operational approach, this paints a clear picture of why it is important and how to frame manager's perspectives to ensure equitable behavior.
  • Assessing and Restoring Equity

    • Organizations can ensure collective rewards are maximized through the use of accepted systems for equitably rewarding members.
    • The only way groups can ensure equitable practices are observed is by making it more profitable to behave equitably than inequitably.
    • Thus, an organization will generally reward members who treat others equitably and generally punish (increase the cost for) members who treat others inequitably.
  • Liabilities

    • Liabilities in financial accounting need not be legally enforceable, but can be based on equitable obligations or constructive obligations.
    • An equitable obligation is a duty based on ethical or moral considerations.
  • Trading off Equity and Efficiency

    • Taxes may be considered equitable if they are administered in accordance with the definition of either horizontal or vertical equity.
  • Social Impacts of Monopoly

    • To understand why trends towards consolidation are so dangerous it is useful to frame why competition is of such critical value to equitable markets, particular from a consumer perspective.
    • This allows for revenues, costs, price, and quantity to achieve a balance where the consumer is provided with the optimal amount of a good at the most equitable price.
    • Note that the overall returns derived, costs incurred, quantity produced, and price point all align perfectly to generate an equitable market position.
  • Antitrust Laws

    • Antitrust laws ensure that competitive environments are preserved in order to maintain an efficient and equitable capitalistic system.
    • Antitrust laws perform the critical task of ensuring that competitive environments are preserved in order to maintain an efficient and equitable capitalistic system for firms to operate in.
  • Motivating and Compensating Salespeople

    • Employees are best motivated through effective job design, equitable compensation, and treatment as stakeholders in the company.
    • The first consideration for designing a compensation system is that the base pay system needs to be internally equitable.
  • Equity Theory

    • A) Individuals can maximize collective rewards by evolving accepted systems for equitably apportioning resources among members.
    • B) Groups will generally reward members who treat others equitably and generally punish members who treat each other inequitably.
    • Employees determine what their equitable return should be after comparing their inputs and outcomes with those of their coworkers, a concept referred to as "social comparison."
  • Selling Orientation

    • In today's realm of marketing, selling has developed into a holistic business system required to effectively develop, manage, enable, and execute a mutually beneficial, interpersonal exchange of goods and services for equitable value.
  • Financing the US Government

    • For example, income taxes due to their progressive nature are used to equitably derive revenue by differentiating tax rates by income strata.
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