The ________ bias can explain why managers doing performance appraisals give more weight to recent employee behaviors than to behaviors of 6 or 9 months earlier.

Also known as the availability heuristic, the availability bias describes a mental shortcut and error in thinking that bases judgements and decisions on available or immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision. Such as the manager does above when he believes an employee has exhibited the worst behaviour the company has ever seen because it is only recent and it is "an immediate example".

bogadu bogadu · Answer 2 · 2020-03-08T04:43:03+01:00

Answer:

availability bias

Explanation:

The availability bias can explain why managers doing performance appraisals give more weight to recent employee behaviors than to behaviors of 6 or 9 months earlier. Availability bias is the tendency for individuals to judge or concluded on a case based on the ease at which that case, a name or individual occurred to your mind. Hence, the manager rated the new employee better because he first came to his mind considering that he/she is a new addition to the workforce compared to the older staff members. For example, after seeing snakes in the toilet of a plane repeatedly you begin to think that it is a occurrence and you refuse to use the toilet of a plane during flights for fear that there may be snakes in them.