Marco's department met or exceeded all of its productivity goals this year. When completing performance evaluations, Marco gave all members of his staff above average or excellent ratings, without considering individual effort. This is an example of a distributional rating error.

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The statement describes a leniency error, which is a type of distributional rating error where the rater gives higher ratings than deserved to all employees, without considering individual differences in performance.

Marco's Department Met or Exceeded All of Its Productivity Goals