Mr Pines Thought Ms

Multiple Choice

Mr. Pines thought Ms. Smith was the ideal employee. Smith was an impressive person and attended all social functions of the company. However, during the past year she had trouble meeting sales quotas. Nevertheless, on her performance appraisal, Pines rated Smith as one of the top salespeople. On hearing this, other salespeople complained that Pines must guard against ____ in rating Smith.

A) allowing poor performance on one activity to influence his overall judgment
B) allowing recent performance to be overemphasized
C) discriminating on the basis of gender
D) overemphasizing some issues and underemphasizing others
E) discriminating on the basis of race and age