Which error occurs when managers or interviewers rate employees based on a single positive attribute?

OUTCOME TEST 3 COVERAGE:

CHAPTER 7 :

Evaluating Employee Performance

reference / IO Psych by Aamodt

Affect - Feelings or emotion.

Performance appraisal review - A meeting between a

supervisor and a subordinate for the purpose of

discussing performance appraisal results.

Forced distribution method - A performance appraisal

method in which a predetermined percentage of

employees are placed into a number of performance

categories.

Forced-choice rating scales - A method of performance

appraisal in which a supervisor is given several

behaviors and is forced to choose which of them is most

typical of the employee.

Graphic rating scale - A method of performance

appraisal that involves rating employee performance on

an interval or ratio scale.

Multiple-source feedback - A performance appraisal

strategy in which an employee receives feedback from

sources (e.g., clients, subordinates, peers) other than

just his/her supervisor.

360-degree feedback - A performance appraisal

system in which feedback is obtained from multiple

sources such as supervisors, subordinates, and

peers.

 Subordinate feedback - is an important component

of 360-degree feedback, as subordinates can provide a very

different view about a supervisor’s behavior.

 Feedback Sandwich - in which the negative feedback

is sandwiched between positive feedback.

Critical incidents - A method of performance

appraisal in which the supervisor records employee

behaviors that were observed on the job and rates

the employee on the basis of that record.

 Employee Performance Record - A standardized use

of the critical-incident technique developed at

General Motors.

Assimilation - A type of rating error in which raters base

their rating of an employee during one rating period on

the ratings the rater gave during a previous period.

Error - Deviation from a standard of quality; also a type

of response to communication overload that involves

processing all information but processing some of it

incorrectly.

Central tendency Error - A type of rating error in

which a rater consistently rates all employees in

the middle of the scale, regardless of their actual

levels of performance.

Leniency Error - A type of rating error in which a

rater consistently gives all employees high ratings,

regardless of their actual levels of performance.

Distribution Errors - Rating errors in which a rater

will use only a certain part of a rating scale when

evaluating employee performance.

Strictness Error - A type of rating error in which a

rater consistently gives all employees low ratings,

regardless of their actual levels of performance.

Halo Error - occurs when a rater allows either a

single attribute or an overall impression of an

individual to affect the ratings that she makes on

each relevant job dimension.

Proximity Error - Proximity errors occur when a

rating made on one dimension affects the rating

made on the dimension that immediately follows it

on the rating scale.

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