Telling Raters That Sometimes the Work Environment and System Affect

question 78

Multiple Choice

Telling raters that sometimes the work environment and system affect job performance more than the individual employee's behavior:

• A) helps improve inter-reliability.
• B) leads to higher ratings.
• C) has very little effect on ratings.
• D) leads to lower ratings.

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Definitions:

Point Estimate

Single value used to estimate an unknown population parameter.

Population Parameter

A numerical value that represents a characteristic of an entire population, such as its mean or standard deviation.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, most commonly the mean; it is used to estimate the accuracy of a sample mean compared to the population mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is believed to contain the true value of a population parameter with a certain level of confidence.