Ford Motor Company has just announced that it will be laying off 10 percent of its manufacturing workforce,with layoff decisions based upon supervisor's evaluation of employee performance (i.e. ,the more poorly performing workers are to be laid off).Supervisors should be careful to avoid ____ in their judgments about employee performance if they hope to avoid charges of discrimination or wrongful discharge by disgruntled employees.
A) the fundamental attribution error
B) the self-serving bias
C) the self-fulfilling prophecy
D) projection

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The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (internal) explanations for the behavior of others rather than situational (external) factors. If supervisors make layoff decisions based solely on their evaluation of employee performance, they may be prone to attributing poor performance to dispositional factors rather than situational factors, such as lack of training or resources, which could lead to unfair discrimination or wrongful discharge claims.

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