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HRI Certification
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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. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Informal communication
Mentor
Teamwork
Norming
2. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Voluntary termination
Work styles
Brainstorming
Message context
3. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Planning
Favoritism
Action plan
Mission Statement
4. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Departmental/team objectives
Facilitator
Sexual harassment
Problem-solving team
5. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Information meetings
Accountability
Affection
Progressive disciplinary action
6. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Principles
Nonverbal communication
Negotiation
Networking
7. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Historical sales information
Contact list
Listening
Alternative
8. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Sales projections
Progressive disciplinary action
Formal communication
Noncontrollable costs
9. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Organizational goals
Controllable costs
Favoritism
Motivation
10. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Message
Action item
Compensation
Control
11. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Stress Management
Favoritism
Compensation
Objective
12. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Networking
Employee absence policy
Self-disclosure
Unstructured exit interview
13. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Departmental/team objectives
Facilitator
Spin
Supporting
14. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Shift leaders
Message channel
Root cause
Progressive disciplinary action
15. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Norming
Controllable costs
Affection
Compensation
16. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Payroll standards
Semivariable costs
Ground rules
Work styles
17. 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
Involuntary termination
Informal communication
Floaters
Problem-solving team
18. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem-solving model
Payroll standards
Planning
Floaters
19. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Problem-solving meetings
Team
Brainstorming
20. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Measurable results
Inclusion
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Facilitator
21. Developing the message to be sent
Mentor
Encoding
Organizational goals
Stress Management
22. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Employee absence policy
Decoding
Information receiver
Unpreventable crisis
23. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Problem-solving meetings
Empathy
Action item
Delegation
24. A potential solution to a problem
Alternative
Documentation
Organizational communication
Networking
25. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Merit pay
Time Management
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Directing
26. 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
Collective bargaining agreement
Directing
Deployment chart
Control
27. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Supporting
Self-disclosure
Professionalism
Covers
28. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Meeting
Strategic priority
Master schedule
Action plan
29. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Encoding
Vision Statement
Storming
Salaries
30. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Principles
Evacuation
Delegation
Information meetings
31. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Scheduling
Problem
Action plan
Merit pay
32. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Contact list
Standard
Budget
SWOT analysis
33. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Information receiver
Collective bargaining agreement
Involuntary termination
Measurable results
34. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Floaters
Message channel
Accountability
Merit pay
35. The environment that a message travels through
Root cause
Message context
Alternative
Planning
36. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Decoding
Merit pay
Exit interview
Planning
37. 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
Self-directed teams
Core values
Empathy
Leadership
38. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Cross-functional team
Objective
Stress
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
39. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Time Management
Management
Meeting
Commissions
40. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Parking lot
Master schedule
Meeting
Brainstorming
41. The person for whom the communication is intended
Historical sales information
Performance standard
Information receiver
Commissions
42. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Message channel
Mediation
Alternative
Stress
43. Statements of desired results
Internal communication
Goal
Historical sales information
Problem-solving model
44. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Professional Development
Organizational communication
Problem-solving meetings
Mentor
45. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Measurable results
Contingency plan
Root cause
46. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Time Management
Conflict resolution
Decoding
Contingency plan
47. Meals to be served
Affection
Covers
Principles
Sexual harassment
48. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
SWOT analysis
Arbitration
Budget
Departmental/team objectives
49. 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
Strategic priority
Covers
Warm-up activity
50. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Time-off request policy
Measurable results
Norming
Principles