The Information Contained in Performance Appraisals Helps Managers

question 184

Multiple Choice

The information contained in performance appraisals helps managers

• A) write job descriptions.
• B) compute the firm's overall performance in terms of a rate of return on investment.
• C) evaluate job applicants.
• D) make decisions about promotions, compensation, training, and firing.

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Definitions:

Antagonistic Pleiotropy

A hypothesis suggesting that a single gene can affect multiple traits in a way that is beneficial in some aspects but detrimental in others.

Hygiene Hypothesis

Suggests that a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms, and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing the natural development of the immune system.

Alleles

Different versions of a gene that determine distinct traits that can be passed on to offspring.

Evolutionary History

The chronological sequence of biological events and processes that have led to the diversity of life and the traits observed in organisms today.