For Supervisors ________ Can Help to Explain Why,when Conducting Performance

question 30

Multiple Choice

For supervisors ________ can help to explain why,when conducting performance appraisals,they tend to give more weight to more recent behaviors of an employee than behaviors of six or nine months ago.

• A)premature judgment
• B)bias
• C)availability heuristic
• D)representative heuristic
• E)escalation of commitment

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Degrees of Freedom

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Calculating

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Significant Correlations

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Test Statistic

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