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HRI Certification
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certifications
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Instructions:
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 process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Motivators/Satisfiers
Delegation
Value Statement
Covers
2. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Problem-solving team
Crisis
Call/emergency meetings
Alternative
3. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Environmental noise
Spin
Nepotism
Work styles
4. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Professional Development
Measurable results
Message
Delegation
5. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Interfunctional team
Terminable acts
Master schedule
Measurable results
6. Costs that management cannot control
Involuntary termination
Historical sales information
Noncontrollable costs
Salaries
7. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Arbitration
Encoding
Wage
Performance standard
8. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Affection
Noncontrollable costs
Budget
Action plan
9. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Accountability
Problem solving
Information meetings
Conflict resolution
10. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Vision Statement
Mediation
Professionalism
Storming
11. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Communication
Time Management
Motivation
Information sender
12. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Progressive disciplinary action
Wage
Networking
Measurable results
13. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Sales projections
Certification
Agenda
Information receiver
14. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Empathy
Nonverbal communication
Meeting
Call/emergency meetings
15. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Employee absence policy
Terminable acts
Wage
16. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Exit interview
Payroll standards
Next steps
Collective bargaining agreement
17. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Nonverbal communication
Norming
Encoding
Standard
18. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Terminable acts
Organizational communication
Internal communication
Scheduling
19. Developing the message to be sent
Empathy
Next steps
Encoding
Performing
20. 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
Deployment chart
Brainstorming
Problem
21. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Exit interview
Spin
Management schedule
Favoritism
22. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Noncontrollable costs
Organizational goals
Self-disclosure
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
23. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Crisis
Problem solving
Message context
Departmental/team objectives
24. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Cross-functional team
Mediation
Employee absence policy
Nonverbal communication
25. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Value Statement
Interpersonal communication
Communication
Motivation
26. A process managers use to identify what causes stress for them in the workplace as well as in their personal life - and then to apply various strategies to minimize its effects
Affection
Stress Management
Organizational goals
Unstructured exit interview
27. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Standard
Warm-up activity
Encoding
Mission Statement
28. The environment that a message travels through
Message context
Professionalism
Goal
Noncontrollable costs
29. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Documentation
Principles
Organizational goals
30. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Time Management
Delegation
Standard
Salaries
31. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Preventable crisis
Communication
Sexual harassment
Storming
32. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Negotiation
Alternative
Organizational goals
Personal treatment
33. Meetings that share communication
Scheduling
Information meetings
Stress
Professionalism
34. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Conflict resolution
Shift leaders
Motivation
Teamwork
35. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Action item
Controllable costs
Formal communication
Nepotism
36. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Motivators/Satisfiers
Nonverbal communication
Performing
Teamwork
37. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Unpreventable crisis
Action item
Evacuation
Inclusion
38. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Facilitator
Mentor
Scheduling
Message context
39. A situation in which management must terminate an employee for one of four reasons - including lack of work for the individual - lack of funding - unsatisfactory performance - or violating a company policy
Budget
Environmental noise
Problem
Involuntary termination
40. 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
Standard
Next steps
Directing
Benchmark
41. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Contingency plan
Warm-up activity
Formal communication
Delegation
42. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Management
Organizational goals
Scheduling
Employee absence policy
43. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Exit interview
Sales projections
Terminable acts
Agenda
44. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Problem-solving team
Progressive disciplinary action
Professionalism
Deployment chart
45. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Control
Organizational communication
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Ground rules
46. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Shift leaders
Accountability
Sexual harassment
Leadership
47. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Problem-solving meetings
Supporting
Delegation
Delegation
48. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Action meetings
Mission Statement
Compensation
Noncontrollable costs
49. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Problem-solving meetings
Accountability
Message context
Interfunctional team
50. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Controllable costs
Professionalism
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Message