While Conducting Performance Appraisals, Mike Gives More Weight to Factors

question 69

Multiple Choice

While conducting performance appraisals, Mike gives more weight to factors such as a problem an employee caused last week or to an award an employee just won. This tendency is specifically referred to as the

• A) recency syndrome.
• B) similarity bias.
• C) proximity bias.
• D) halo effect.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Affective Complexity

The ability to experience and understand complex emotions simultaneously and the capacity to integrate this emotional awareness into cognitive processes.

Reflective Judgment

The cognitive process involved in critically evaluating the validity of differing viewpoints on complex issues.

Relativistic Thinking

The understanding that knowledge and truth are not absolute but can vary based on context and perspective.

Dualism

The philosophical or theological doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often physical and spiritual.