Ford Motor Company Has Just Announced That It Will Be

question 140

Multiple Choice

Ford Motor Company has just announced that it will be laying off 10 percent of its manufacturing workforce,with layoff decisions based upon supervisor's evaluation of employee performance (i.e. ,the more poorly performing workers are to be laid off) .Supervisors should be careful to avoid ____ in their judgments about employee performance if they hope to avoid charges of discrimination or wrongful discharge by disgruntled employees.

• A) the fundamental attribution error
• B) the self-serving bias
• C) the self-fulfilling prophecy
• D) projection

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