What activity involves keeping closer-than-usual tabs on an employee's behavior and issuing more frequent reminders about the expectation?

• A. Monitoring
• B. Leniency error
• C. Recency error
• D. Halo effect

Answer: (A)

Tracking an employee's behavior more closely and issuing more frequent reminders about what is expected is monitoring. Monitoring involves ongoing supervision and feedback to ensure standards are being met and to catch deviations early, often through closer observation, more frequent check-ins, and reinforcement of policies. The other terms describe biases or errors in judgment rather than a practice of watching and guiding behavior: leniency error is giving too-favorable evaluations regardless of performance, recency error bases judgments on the most recent events, and the halo effect is letting one positive trait unduly influence all judgments. Because the description centers on active observation and reinforcement of expectations, monitoring is the best fit.