An important part of performance management is evaluating performance. When properly executed, performance evaluation helps to increase employee motivation and goal achievement. In reality, performance evaluations can be wrought with error due to evaluators$$ personal attributions and perceptions. This activity is important because understanding the most common perceptual errors in performance evaluations will help you to minimize their influence on your own evaluations of others$$ performance, thereby increasing the accuracy, and usefulness, of your evaluations.

The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of common perceptual errors and how they are exemplified in the workplace.