An example of _______ would be when a manager expects employees to perform badly, they probably will, and when the manger expects them to perform well, they probably will.

A. a self-fulfilling prophecy, or the Pygmalion effect,
B. the recency effect
C. self-serving bias
D. stereotyping
E. employee engagement


A. a self-fulfilling prophecy, or the Pygmalion effect,

The self-fulfilling prophecy, also known as the Pygmalion effect, describes the phenomenon in which people's expectations of themselves or others leads them to behave in ways that make those expectations come true.

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