When a supervisor overstates an employee's performance, a ________ occurs.
A) rating bias
B) positive leniency error
C) critical incident
D) halo error
E) central tendency misjudgment
Question 2Discuss the three approaches a supervisor might use for conducting performance appraisals.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 3When an evaluator recalls, and then gives greater importance to, employee job behaviors that have occurred near the end of the performance-measuring period, this results in ________.
A) leniency error
B) critical incidents
C) recency error
D) central tendency
E) halo error
Question 4When appraisers rate other people giving special consideration to those qualities that they perceive in themselves, they are making a ________ error.
A) low leniency
B) similarity
C) halo
D) central tendency
E) graphic rating
Question 5Supervisors can overcome barriers to effective performance appraisal by instituting the following EXCEPT ________.
A) combining absolute and relative standards
B) using multiple raters
C) creating central tendency
D) continually documenting employee performance
E) using behaviorally-based measures
Question 6If your appraisal skills are deficient, there is evidence that you can become a more accurate rater by ________.
A) knowing equal opportunity laws
B) starting apprenticeship training
C) participating in performance-appraisal training
D) creating friends in your department
E) becoming closer to your employees
Question 7The halo error is a tendency to rate an individual high or low on all factors as a result of the impression of a high or low rating on some specific factor.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false