A Manager Is Completing Performance Evaluations of His Employees

question 82

Multiple Choice

A manager is completing performance evaluations of his employees.Unwittingly, he allows his perceptions of their attendance to colour his ratings of many specific characteristics, including their quality and quantity of work.Thus, those with poor attendance invariably get poor ratings.What's happened?

• A)Knowledge-of-predictor bias
• B)Harshness
• C)Halo effect
• D)Contrast effects
• E)Similar-to-me effect

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