This appraisal system is the most defensible in court because it is based on observable job performance behaviors.
A manager expects high levels of performance from Ashley, a newly hired employee, because she graduated from a prestigious Ivy League university. A year later, the manager rates Ashley's job performance more highly than her actual performance based on his initial belief.
B.The natural, societal, and task environments must be monitored to examine the strategic factors that have less impact on the firm.
Scanning forces in STEEP analysis include the scanning of sociocultural, technological, economic, ecological, and political-legal environmental forces. Recall that a corporation's task environment is typically focused on the industry within which the firm operates and it is not a component of STEEP analysis. The "T" in the acronym STEEP signifies the technological environment instead of the task environment. Changes in the technological part of the societal environment can also have a great impact on multiple industries.