While Conducting Performance Appraisals, Mike Gives More Weight to Factors

question 69

Multiple Choice

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