Answer to Question #259821 in Management for tadee

Question

After six months in his new position as a manager, Binyam was faced with the task of having to conduct performance evaluation of his staffs. He was worried because he had never done performance evaluation and is not sure how to do it. However, in order to easy his ways, he decides to start with Mekdes and she is a recent hire in his department and he felt that she is the most cooperative lady he had hired since he became a manager. What perceptual biases (kind of misperceptions) do you expect likely to come into play while Binyam evaluate the performance of Mekdes? Justify your answer.

Answer 1

Based on the scenario above, the manager is likely to commit the recency bias. This bias includes focusing on the most recent period instead of the total period when conducting a performance evaluation. This kind of bias also happens when the performance is conducted on the most recent employees instead of comparing the work done a while ago by other employees. This unconscious bias can be attributed to how the mind makes associations, especially for a new manager.