Keywords
Employees, Rating of employees
Abstract
The effects of training in halo reduction on cognitively complex and noncomplex individuals were studied. Three main hypotheses were tested: 1) There would be a significant negative relationship between cognitive complexity and halo. 2) Training would significantly reduce halo. 3) Training would significantly reduce the amount of halo in the ratings of cognitively noncomplex individuals, but not in the ratings of complex individuals. Forty undergraduate students were given a cognitive complexity test, and high and low complexity groups were identified. Subjects were randomly assigned to either the Training or the No-Training condition. The training groups participated in a lecture-discussion session aimed at rating improvement. The No-Training groups worked on a Sentence-Completion exercise. All subjects viewed a videotaped discussion and rated two discussion participants. The relationship between halo and complexity was not significant for either of the rates; however, for one rate, the results were in the expected negative direction (the product moment correlation coefficient between the rating variance and complexity was .3987, .05
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Graduation Date
1978
Advisor
Burroughs, Wayne A.
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Social Sciences
Degree Program
Industrial Psychology
Format
Pages
45 p.
Language
English
Rights
Public Domain
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Identifier
DP0013119
Subjects
Employees -- Rating of
STARS Citation
Dandage, Kanchan S., "The Effects of Halo Reduction Training on Individuals Varying in Cognitive Complexity" (1978). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 283.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/rtd/283
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