question archive An employee believes that the performance appraisal was unfairly influenced by a drug error that the employee committed several weeks ago
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An employee believes that the performance appraisal was unfairly influenced by a drug error that the employee committed several weeks ago. The employee states, "The manager focused almost exclusively on this one mistake, and that event characterized my entire appraisal." This employee may have experienced what phenomenon?
A.Central tendency
B.A horns effect
C.A job dimension scale
D.A halo effect
Answer:
B. Horns effect
Horns effect is the tendency for a single negative attribute, situation, or event to make evaluators mark everything on the low end of the scale and affect your whole performance appraisal.