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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. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Benchmark
Self-directed teams
Motivation
Evacuation
2. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Sexual harassment
Media policy
Performance standard
Information sender
3. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Unstructured exit interview
Message context
Progressive disciplinary action
Parking lot
4. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Message channel
Semivariable costs
Mission Statement
Brainstorming meetings
5. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Problem
Unstructured exit interview
Measurable results
Involuntary termination
6. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Planning
Personal treatment
Organizational goals
Contingency plan
7. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Master schedule
Floaters
Teamwork
Performance standard
8. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Management schedule
Information receiver
Controllable costs
Standard
9. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Vision Statement
Stress Management
Planning
Contact list
10. 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
Delegation
Stress Management
Parking lot
Media policy
11. 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
Self-directed teams
Directing
Sexual harassment
Scheduling
12. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Nepotism
Voluntary termination
Standard
Forming
13. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Forming
Bonuses
Master schedule
Delegation
14. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Problem-solving meetings
Minutes
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
15. The person for whom the communication is intended
Internal communication
Performing
Information receiver
Documentation
16. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Shift leaders
Debrief meeting
Spin
Stress Management
17. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Norming
Meeting
Media policy
Employee absence policy
18. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Self-directed teams
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Interfunctional team
Principles
19. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Decoding
Time Management
Crisis
Performance review cycles
20. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Master schedule
Stress
Action plan
Structured exit interview
21. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
SWOT analysis
Alternative
Delegation
Media policy
22. The environment that a message travels through
Message context
Cross-functional team
Internal communication
Agenda
23. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Action plan
Self-disclosure
Performing
Time Management
24. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Favoritism
Time Management
Semivariable costs
25. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Principles
Agenda
Deployment chart
Work styles
26. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Favoritism
Noncontrollable costs
Information receiver
Ground rules
27. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Information meetings
Strategic priority
Documentation
Internal communication
28. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Inclusion
Master schedule
Mentor
Professionalism
29. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Formal communication
Standard
Storming
Supporting
30. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Root cause
Interfunctional team
Call/emergency meetings
Semivariable costs
31. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Performance standard
Formal communication
Self-directed teams
32. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Informal communication
Terminable acts
Nepotism
Mission Statement
33. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Delegation
Involuntary termination
Contact list
34. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Departmental/team objectives
Sales projections
Unpreventable crisis
Action plan
35. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Formal communication
Brainstorming meetings
Facilitator
Planning
36. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Measurable results
Structured exit interview
Negotiation
Message context
37. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Problem
Contingency plan
Sales projections
Warm-up activity
38. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Voluntary termination
Cross-training
Unpreventable crisis
Professionalism
39. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Covers
Preventable crisis
Root cause
Problem-solving meetings
40. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Stress
Performance review cycles
Problem-solving meetings
Ground rules
41. An official record of key points discussed or covered at a meeting - as well as anything that might have been decided or completed during the meeting
Professionalism
Environmental noise
Minutes
Preventable crisis
42. 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
Encoding
Conflict resolution
Semivariable costs
Certification
43. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Conflict resolution
Control
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Sexual harassment
44. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Shift leaders
Networking
Meeting
Performing
45. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Listening
Information meetings
Unpreventable crisis
Nepotism
46. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Master schedule
Decoding
Strategic priority
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
47. Statements of desired results
Meeting
Accountability
Networking
Goal
48. Meetings that share communication
Work styles
Information meetings
Value Statement
Employee absence policy
49. A conversation without prepared questions
Communication
Voluntary termination
Unstructured exit interview
Merit pay
50. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Message channel
Documentation
Value Statement
Standard