When an employee's personal characteristics such as gender influence a supervisor's evaluation of his or her performance, the problem of ________ has occurred.
A) bias
B) stereotyping
C) central tendency
D) halo affect

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Bias occurs when personal characteristics, such as gender, influence a supervisor's evaluation of an employee's performance. Stereotyping refers to making generalizations about someone based on their group membership, such as assuming all women are not as competent as men. Central tendency refers to the tendency to rate all employees as average, while the halo effect is when an employee's positive traits overshadow any negative traits in the evaluation.

When an Employee's Personal Characteristics Such as Gender Influence a Supervisor's