Becky Leone is a manager overseeing many cooks and kitchen workers located on oil rig platforms all over the Gulf of Mexico and thus cannot observe all of their behavior on a daily basis. If Becky plays it safe and rates most of them as average rather than high or low, her ratings will show

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Becky's approach of rating most employees as average, despite not observing all their behaviors, is an example of central tendency. This is a common rating error where evaluators avoid using the extremes of a rating scale and rate most employees as average.

Becky Leone Is a Manager Overseeing Many Cooks and Kitchen