You Are Reviewing the Performance Appraisal Conducted by Your Middle

question 49

Multiple Choice

You are reviewing the performance appraisal conducted by your middle managers.You notice that Carrie tends to give each employee the same score across all dimensions of the evaluation.For example,Brian's scores all are in the average range while Karl's all tend to be in the excellent range,even though you know that each man has done very well on some and very poorly on some of the dimensions.Brian and Karl's evaluations exhibit a:

• A) severity error.
• B) halo error.
• C) leniency error.
• D) central tendency error.

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