Sandhya Syama

EVALUATOR ERRORS
Varying standards: Evaluations not being consistent
Recency/Primacy: Focuing on recent/ first behaviour
Central Tendency: Same rating for every one
Leniency: Shun low rating to avoid conflict
Constancy: Rate employee in rank order of previous review
Similarity: Rate employees higher who have similar values and interest to the reviewer
Bias: Based on race, color religion, sex, national origin, disability age, veteran status, sexual orientation, political belief.
Evaluation patterns: The tendency of an evaluator to rate most people the same, always too lenient, always too strict, etc.
Halo/Horns effect: The biased view that everything a person does is good or is always bad.
Contrast error – A person is rated an excellent performer only because he/she is in a poor group or visa versa