The ________ Bias Can Explain Why Managers Doing Performance Appraisals

question 15

Multiple Choice

The ________ bias can explain why managers doing performance appraisals give more weight to recent employee behaviors than to behaviors of 6 or 9 months earlier.

• A) self-serving
• B) availability
• C) distinction
• D) confirmation
• E) hindsight

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Definitions:

Hiring Standards

The criteria and qualifications required for a candidate to be eligible for a particular job position.

Legal Challenge

A dispute brought before a court, questioning the legality or constitutionality of a law, regulation, decision, or action.

Disparate Impact

An effect of policies or practices that adversely affect one group of people more significantly than another, even if unintentional.

Substantially-Equal-Work

Refers to a legal standard requiring tasks that require comparable skill, effort, and responsibility, and performed under similar working conditions, to be compensated equally.