If You Rate an Employee's Performance Based Largely on the Employee's

question 77

Multiple Choice

If you rate an employee's performance based largely on the employee's recent behavior,you are committing a:

• A) leniency error.
• B) contrast error.
• C) recency error.
• D) central tendency error.

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