Question

1. According to the Stanford research on values, more effective companies have three qualities in common around their values:

   1. Agreement, commitment & communication

   2. Consensus, clarity & Intensity

   3. Capacity, inclusion & involvement

   4. Explanation, authenticity & application

2. Distributive justice refers to

   1. Employee perceptions about the fairness of outcomes

   2. Employee perception about the fairness of process

   3. Employee perception about the fairness of content

   4. Employee perception about the fairness of timing

3. If a salesperson’s performance is given a low rating in comparison with that of another salesperson, without the rater having considered that different territories have different sales potentials, then this is an example of:

   1. significance.

   2. balanced rating.

   3. contamination.

   4. A, B and C are all incorrect.

4. All the following are known to increase self-efficacy, except

   1. intrinsic motivation

   2. task mastery

   3. vicarious experience of observing others

   4. verbal persuasion

5. Which of the following options is a results-based method of performance review?

   1. Balanced scorecard

   2. Individual behavioural rating scale

   3. Comparison method

   4. Peer review

6. When a performance reviewer makes an unintentional judgement based on one impressive factor that overshadows the entire performance review, they are known to have made a

   1. Stereotyping fault

   2. in-group error

   3. out-group error

   4. halo error

Answer 1

According to the Stanford research on values, more effective companies have three qualities in common around their values:

A. Agreement, commitment & communication

Distributive justice refers to

A. Employees perceptions about the fairness of outcomes.

If a salesperson’s performance is given a low rating in comparison with that of another salesperson, without the rater having considered that different territories have different sales potentials, then this is an example of:

C. Contamination

All the task mastery, vicarious experience of observing others and verbal persuasion are known to increase self-efficacy, except

A. Intrinsic motivation

Which of the following options is a results-based method of performance review?

B.Individual behavioural rating scale

When a performance reviewer makes an unintentional judgement based on one impressive factor that overshadows the entire performance review, they are known to have made a

D. Halo error