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The halo effect occurs when a supervisors overall positive impression of an employeeoften triggered by a single outstanding trait or achievementcolors their judgment across all other performance criteria. In this scenario, the supervisors assessment of excellent in every category is a direct result of one high-visibility success, causing them to overlook the employees otherwise average performance         Central tendency bias This error involves rating all employees as average or in the middle of the scale to avoid extremes, rather than rating them as excellent based on one success.  Leniency bias This is a general tendency to rate all employees higher than their actual performance merits, regardless of specific recent projects or single traits.  Recency bias While the high-visibility project was recent, recency bias specifically refers to over-weighting an employees most recent actions positive or negative over their performance for the entire period. It does not inherently involve generalizing one trait to all other criteria.  Horn effect This is the inverse of the halo effect it occurs when one negative trait or failure causes a supervisor to rate an employee poorly in all other areas

During performance appraisal, a supervisor rates an employee as “excellent” in all criteria simply because the employee performed exceptionally well in one recent high-visibility project, ignoring average performance in other areas. This error most likely represents ____

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