During your recent performance appraisal, your boss bases th…

During your recent performance appraisal, your boss bases their appraisal on the fact that you recently did a great job on the annual report and are always nice to everyone.  Despite the fact that you are always late to work and often out sick, you got an excellent rating. What type of error is this where one good characteristic overshadows everything else?

This is a performance appraisal method that uses a scale dev…

This is a performance appraisal method that uses a scale developed from critical incidents but using substantially more critical incidents to define specifically all the measure necessary for effective performance.  For example: Teachers give back grades the next day would get a rating of 5 where as teachers do not give back grades prior to the final exam would get a rating of 0.