Question

Janet is perceived by her dining room manager, Sarah, as the best waitress who ever worked for her. Naturally, Janet's ratings on her performance appraisal are all high. Tom, on the other hand, is an average waiter; yet, after evaluating Janet, Sarah's ratings of Tom are below average. This type of rating error is referred to as:

Answer 1

contrast error

Step-by-step explanation:

Contrast error is a term used when it is necessary to evaluate the performance of two people (or more) who are doing the same activity, but one person's evaluation is influenced by another person's evaluation, as happened with Janet and Tom. , tom was rated negatively, but tom is not a bad employee, his negative rating was because Janet was rated very well and this influenced Tom's rating.