A department manager has personally decided to hire a new employee.This employee's performance,however,proves to be below expectations.Nevertheless,the manager decides to keep the employee,explaining away his current performance as merely part of the learning process.This escalation of commitment may be due to:
A)Perceptual biases.
B)Judgmental biases.
C)Impression management.
D)All of the above

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Perceptual biases may lead the manager to believe that the employee will eventually improve, regardless of current performance. Judgmental biases may cause the manager to overvalue their own decision to hire the employee and continue to support them despite poor performance. Impression management may be at play if the manager is concerned about how it would reflect on them to admit they made a mistake in hiring the employee. All three factors may contribute to the escalation of commitment in this situation.

A Department Manager Has Personally Decided to Hire a New