Which Performance Appraisal Error Reflects the Tendency to Rate Every

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which performance appraisal error reflects the tendency to rate every employee at the low end of the rating scale,regardless of actual performance?

• A)error of central tendency
• B)contrast errors
• C)negative halo error
• D)errors of strictness

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Definitions:

General Ability

A person's overall capability to perform a wide variety of tasks, often associated with cognitive functions like reasoning, problem-solving, and understanding.

Scale Development

The process of designing, testing, and validating a scale or instrument for measurement, typically of attitudes, attributes, or behaviors.

Thurstone Scales

A psychometric scale developed by L. L. Thurstone, used to measure attitudes by asking respondents to agree or disagree with a series of statements, each weighted according to their position on an agree-disagree continuum.

Likert Scale

A Likert scale is a psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires. It is the most widely used approach for scaling responses in survey research, such that the term is often used interchangeably with rating scale, even though the two are not synonymous.