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Appraisal Errors
Appraisal Errors
The tendency of individuals to rate people who resemble themselves more highly than they rate
Tendency of a rater to make an initial positive or negative judgment of others
an employee and allow that first impression to colour or distort later
information
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Tendency of a rater to evaluate people in comparison with The tendency to generalize across groups and ignore individual differences
other individuals rather than against the standards for the
job
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Negative and Positive skew Attribution bias
The opposite of central tendency: the rating of all The tendency to attribute performance
individuals as higher or lower than their failings to factors under the control of the
performance warrants individual and performance successes to
external causes.
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