April, a production manager at Alton Corp., needs to evaluate the performance of her employees. She asks her subordinate, Tiff, to carry out this job. Tiff uses a rating scale, which ranges from 1 to 10, to rate 50 employees. She gives a score of 3 to 39 employees. In doing so, Tiff commits a _____ error.
Strictness error occurs when raters (e.g., supervisors) judge employee performance to be less than what it is when compared against objective criteria.
