Answer to Question #259836 in Management for Wondosen

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 Mekdes .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

Biases involved here are recency bias and selective bias.Binyam want to evaluate Mekdes who was hired recently and select her first since he feel she is the most coorperative worker and keep other employees pending and it may not be true that the lady is the most obedient worker in the institution.