You are reviewing the performance appraisal conducted by your middle managers.You notice that Carrie tends to give each employee the same score across all dimensions of the evaluation.For example,Brian's scores all are in the average range while Karl's all tend to be in the excellent range,even though you know that each man has done very well on some and very poorly on some of the dimensions.Brian and Karl's evaluations exhibit a:
A) severity error.
B) halo error.
C) leniency error.
D) central tendency error.

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The evaluations exhibit a halo error, which occurs when an evaluator's overall impression of an individual (good or bad) influences their ratings on specific dimensions of the individual's performance, leading to uniformly high or low scores across all areas regardless of the individual's actual performance in those areas.

You Are Reviewing the Performance Appraisal Conducted by Your Middle