If you are a manager and have one extremely exceptional employee, you need to guard against __________ when evaluating the work of your other employees, because you may have the tendency to compare the characteristics of your other employees with those of the exceptional employee.
A) contrast effects
B) halo effects
C) selective perception
D) the self-fulfilling prophecy
E) projection

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Contrast effects occur when the evaluation of a person's characteristics is influenced by comparisons with other people recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics. In this scenario, comparing other employees to an exceptionally high-performing employee can lead to unfairly harsh evaluations due to the contrast between the exceptional employee and the others.

If You Are a Manager and Have One Extremely Exceptional