An experienced critical care nurse left an intensive care unit staff nurse position to finish a master's degree. Periodically, he would return to work as a per diem nurse in the intensive care unit
The staff was impressed with the nurse's performance; however, one staff member com-plained that he was unfamiliar with the new telemetry monitors when he first returned to work several months ago. This comment showed up in his evaluation, resulting in a poorer overall evaluation from the nurse manager compared with previous evaluations. This is an example of ____. a. A halo effect
b. A horn effect
c. Recent behavior bias
d. Similar-to-me effect
B
A horn effect occurs when a manager perceives one negative aspect about an employee or that employee's performance and generalizes it into an overall poor appraisal rating. A halo effect occurs when a manager perceives one positive aspect about an employee or that employee's per-formance and generalizes it into an overall high rating. A recent behavior bias occurs when the rater remembers behavior primarily from the most recent period of the employee's performance period as opposed to the entire rating period. A similar-to-me effect occurs when a manager rates the employee performance higher when a person is perceived accurately or inaccurately to have the same characteristics as the manager.
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