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Recency bias

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, recency bias means: A tendency to give recent events too much influence when judging performance over a longer period.

In Turkish: yakın geçmişe ağırlık verme yanlılığı

How it is used

Use when the latest event overshadows earlier relevant evidence; the time window should be clear.

Example sentences

  1. Recency bias led the manager to overlook nine strong months after one difficult week.

    A short recent period dominates a judgement intended to cover much longer.

  2. Keeping notes throughout the year helped the team check for recency bias at appraisal time.

    Evidence from the whole period counterbalances the prominence of recent memories.

Common collocations

  • avoid recency bias
  • recency bias in reviews
  • performance reviewA regular formal meeting in which a manager and an employee discuss how well the employee has done their job, agree on a rating and set goals for the next period.
  • feedbackComments on how well someone has done a piece of work or behaved, given so that they can keep doing what works and improve what does not.

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