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HRI Certification
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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. Costs that management can control
Action plan
Controllable costs
Directing
Information meetings
2. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Listening
Workplace Ethics
Time-off request policy
Root cause
3. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Alternative
Favoritism
Motivation
Vision Statement
4. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Stress Management
Sexual harassment
Goal
Inclusion
5. The person for whom the communication is intended
Crisis
Affection
Measurable results
Information receiver
6. A potential solution to a problem
Alternative
Organizational goals
Stress Management
Listening
7. 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
Message context
Self-directed teams
Management
Call/emergency meetings
8. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Action meetings
Benchmark
Meeting
Departmental/team objectives
9. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Problem-solving meetings
Budget
Affection
Workplace Ethics
10. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Teamwork
Informal communication
Core values
Supporting
11. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Departmental/team objectives
Environmental noise
Unstructured exit interview
Historical sales information
12. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Measurable results
Media policy
Departmental/team objectives
Noncontrollable costs
13. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Networking
Affection
Contingency plan
Evacuation
14. Those factors that cause a person to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner and may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli
Motivation
Interfunctional team
Scheduling
Next steps
15. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Sales projections
Collective bargaining agreement
Unpreventable crisis
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
16. 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
Workplace Ethics
Value Statement
Vision Statement
Certification
17. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Supporting
Standard
Motivation
Organizational communication
18. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Storming
Cross-functional team
Informal communication
Goal
19. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Personal treatment
Strategic priority
Planning
Meeting
20. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Time Management
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Professionalism
Principles
21. 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
Management schedule
Merit pay
Voluntary termination
Core values
22. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Noncontrollable costs
Supporting
Accountability
Information receiver
23. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Sales projections
Networking
Work styles
Performing
24. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Problem solving
Alternative
Unstructured exit interview
Planning
25. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Crew schedule
Unpreventable crisis
Compensation
Shift leaders
26. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Agenda
Minutes
Problem-solving meetings
Accountability
27. A conversation without prepared questions
Unstructured exit interview
Forming
Management schedule
Structured exit interview
28. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Ground rules
Conflict resolution
Agenda
Sales projections
29. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Accountability
Problem-solving team
Motivators/Satisfiers
Principles
30. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Time Management
Management
Media policy
Crisis
31. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Ground rules
Workplace Ethics
Encoding
Semivariable costs
32. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Deployment chart
Collective bargaining agreement
Covers
Information meetings
33. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Encoding
Mediation
Action meetings
Stress Management
34. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Cross-training
Spin
Problem-solving model
Networking
35. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Cross-training
Bonuses
Interpersonal communication
Brainstorming meetings
36. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Action meetings
Message channel
Alternative
SWOT analysis
37. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Leadership
Problem-solving meetings
Controllable costs
Call/emergency meetings
38. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Problem-solving team
Ground rules
Preventable crisis
Informal communication
39. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Self-directed teams
Self-disclosure
Affection
Inclusion
40. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Payroll standards
Individual performance of objectives
Team
Meeting
41. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Nonverbal communication
Delegation
Message
Performing
42. Costs that management cannot control
Crew schedule
Shift leaders
Message context
Noncontrollable costs
43. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Strategic priority
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Preventable crisis
Decoding
44. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Message
Principles
Value Statement
Problem-solving model
45. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Call/emergency meetings
Departmental/team objectives
Noncontrollable costs
Wage
46. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Value Statement
Core values
Performing
Personal treatment
47. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Collective bargaining agreement
Communication
Warm-up activity
Conflict resolution
48. 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
Evacuation
Unstructured exit interview
Environmental noise
Directing
49. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Performance review cycles
Personal treatment
Action meetings
Delegation
50. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Merit pay
Standard
Evacuation
Networking