Your team asks you why you assess consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus of their individual behaviors at every performance appraisal. Which explanation do you give them? These variables are used to weight performance appraisal scores. Monitoring these variables is an important part of documentation when employees are fired. Just as managers use attribution theory to attribute blame when behaviors are negative, they can use attribution theory to attribute cause when behaviors are positive. As a manager, I want to reward employees whose behavior is positive