Assistant Professor Dr. Ayers is being evaluated for promotion. The Dean of her department notes that last semester three of her four classes did not have maximum enrollment, and as such he assesses that she is not effective enough as a teacher to be promoted to Associate Professor. As it turns out, the number of students in her classes was reduced because the classes were in the middle of the workday, when fewer students register for courses. This demonstrates that a problem with ________ measures of job performance is that sometimes factors are outside of the employee's control.

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Objective measures of job performance can be influenced by external factors beyond the employee's control, such as class scheduling in this case.