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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 state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Wage
Decoding
Teamwork
Debrief meeting
2. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Vision Statement
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Sexual harassment
Crew schedule
3. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Action item
Preventable crisis
Problem
Merit pay
4. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Listening
Motivation
Information meetings
Control
5. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Exit interview
Motivators/Satisfiers
Root cause
Value Statement
6. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Teamwork
Problem-solving meetings
Next steps
Informal communication
7. The environment that a message travels through
Principles
Salaries
Message context
Call/emergency meetings
8. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Norming
Crisis
Motivators/Satisfiers
Team
9. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Formal communication
Noncontrollable costs
Action plan
Contact list
10. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Control
Supporting
Problem-solving meetings
Evacuation
11. 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
Involuntary termination
Team
Management
Storming
12. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Time Management
Bonuses
Performing
Inclusion
13. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Performance standard
Message channel
Stress
Crew schedule
14. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Debrief meeting
Decoding
Crew schedule
Internal communication
15. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Crisis
Master schedule
Decoding
Conflict resolution
16. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Payroll standards
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Forming
Stress
17. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Shift leaders
Message context
Strategic priority
Value Statement
18. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Stress Management
Cross-functional team
Performing
Crisis
19. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Leadership
Master schedule
Networking
Documentation
20. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Merit pay
Stress Management
Performing
Encoding
21. 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
Directing
Terminable acts
Information sender
Crew schedule
22. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Departmental/team objectives
Workplace Ethics
Shift leaders
Objective
23. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Message channel
Parking lot
Empathy
Minutes
24. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Payroll standards
Bonuses
Commissions
Call/emergency meetings
25. 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
Cross-training
Management
Minutes
Informal communication
26. Meals to be served
Management
Communication
Covers
Accountability
27. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Salaries
Forming
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
28. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Work styles
Preventable crisis
Floaters
Mentor
29. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Team
Contingency plan
Arbitration
Unpreventable crisis
30. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Environmental noise
Root cause
Brainstorming
Commissions
31. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Professionalism
Problem-solving team
Spin
32. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Terminable acts
Evacuation
Problem
Structured exit interview
33. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Communication
Problem-solving model
Historical sales information
Wage
34. 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
Mentor
Employee absence policy
Team
Semivariable costs
35. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Parking lot
Terminable acts
Master schedule
Unstructured exit interview
36. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Empathy
Mediation
Minutes
Crisis
37. Costs that management cannot control
Action item
Strategic priority
Noncontrollable costs
Empathy
38. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Brainstorming meetings
Communication
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Problem
39. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Self-disclosure
Message context
Commissions
Internal communication
40. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Listening
Historical sales information
Voluntary termination
41. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
SWOT analysis
Delegation
Unstructured exit interview
Performance review cycles
42. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Interfunctional team
Vision Statement
Principles
Meeting
43. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Motivation
Involuntary termination
Conflict resolution
Unstructured exit interview
44. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Norming
Payroll standards
Action meetings
Self-disclosure
45. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Arbitration
Negotiation
Exit interview
46. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Merit pay
Voluntary termination
Unpreventable crisis
Management
47. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Mentor
Performance review cycles
Debrief meeting
Budget
48. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Sexual harassment
Measurable results
Interfunctional team
Merit pay
49. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
SWOT analysis
Crisis
Organizational communication
Forming
50. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Time-off request policy
Action meetings
Standard
Information meetings