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HRI Certification
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certifications
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A potential solution to a problem
Planning
Personal treatment
Alternative
Information meetings
2. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Problem-solving team
Accountability
Meeting
Master schedule
3. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Performance review cycles
Team
Brainstorming
Minutes
4. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Commissions
Problem solving
Storming
Contact list
5. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Debrief meeting
Documentation
Time Management
Nonverbal communication
6. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Facilitator
Floaters
Performance review cycles
Storming
7. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Professional Development
Wage
Information meetings
Arbitration
8. Differs from other forms of communication in that there are usually only a few participants involved (often just two people) - the individuals are in close proximity to each other as shown - and the feedback is immediate
Principles
Controllable costs
Strategic priority
Interpersonal communication
9. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Stress Management
Action plan
Standard
10. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Alternative
Formal communication
Root cause
Time Management
11. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Stress
Motivation
Exit interview
12. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Message
Budget
Debrief meeting
Salaries
13. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Strategic priority
Professional Development
Workplace Ethics
14. The person for whom the communication is intended
Environmental noise
Personal treatment
Information receiver
Scheduling
15. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Vision Statement
Spin
Action item
Brainstorming meetings
16. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Favoritism
Noncontrollable costs
Stress
Salaries
17. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Management schedule
Personal treatment
Covers
18. The ability to plan - organize - direct - staff - control - and evaluate the many functions in a food service organization for the purpose of serving organizational goals
Management
Noncontrollable costs
Crisis
Action meetings
19. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Value Statement
Interpersonal communication
Problem-solving team
Progressive disciplinary action
20. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Conflict resolution
Interpersonal communication
Parking lot
Warm-up activity
21. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Organizational communication
Agenda
Team
Stress
22. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Encoding
Agenda
Professional Development
Scheduling
23. Those costs that have both a fixed and variable element - such that one part will not change as sales volume changes - whereas the other part will change
Semivariable costs
Debrief meeting
Problem solving
Unpreventable crisis
24. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Voluntary termination
Structured exit interview
Evacuation
Management schedule
25. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Action meetings
Vision Statement
Standard
Cross-functional team
26. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Professionalism
Root cause
Media policy
Master schedule
27. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Employee absence policy
Standard
Internal communication
Goal
28. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Media policy
Progressive disciplinary action
Covers
Information sender
29. Indicates that you have demonstrated a high level of skill and have met specific performance requirements by participating in a rigorous process to become certified
Salaries
Forming
Certification
Involuntary termination
30. Involves telling the group what specifically needs to be accomplished - establishing guidelines - and providing specifics on the five Ws (who - what - when where - why) and how
Nonverbal communication
Directing
Problem
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
31. Costs that management cannot control
Brainstorming
Self-disclosure
Noncontrollable costs
Scheduling
32. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Deployment chart
Work styles
Environmental noise
Floaters
33. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Next steps
Structured exit interview
Information receiver
Merit pay
34. Meetings that share communication
Information meetings
Informal communication
Bonuses
Certification
35. Developing the message to be sent
Compensation
Agenda
Departmental/team objectives
Encoding
36. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Cross-training
Documentation
Inclusion
Ground rules
37. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Crew schedule
Favoritism
Brainstorming meetings
Inclusion
38. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Delegation
Problem solving
Warm-up activity
Action plan
39. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Deployment chart
Mentor
Organizational communication
Crew schedule
40. A company's key elements of operation - and they serve as the foundation for the development of both the vision statement and the mission statement
Core values
Scheduling
Arbitration
Time Management
41. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Benchmark
Informal communication
Supporting
Standard
42. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Preventable crisis
Norming
Warm-up activity
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
43. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Compensation
Time-off request policy
Meeting
Time Management
44. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Commissions
Progressive disciplinary action
Leadership
Motivators/Satisfiers
45. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Measurable results
Historical sales information
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Message channel
46. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Work styles
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Networking
Time-off request policy
47. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Evacuation
Storming
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Deployment chart
48. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Objective
Action plan
Master schedule
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
49. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Encoding
Compensation
Agenda
Sales projections
50. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Accountability
Involuntary termination
Professional Development
Cross-training