While Conducting Performance Appraisals,Mac Gives More Weight to Factors Such

question 20

Multiple Choice

While conducting performance appraisals,Mac gives more weight to factors such as a problem the employee caused last week,or to an award the 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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