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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. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Wage
Brainstorming meetings
Media policy
Certification
2. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Problem-solving meetings
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Performing
Certification
3. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Management schedule
Arbitration
Listening
Information meetings
4. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Measurable results
Planning
Mediation
Exit interview
5. Identifying what tasks - actions - and other events need to happen as a result of the meeting - as well as setting a date and time for the next meeting
Payroll standards
Cross-training
Next steps
Meeting
6. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Strategic priority
Directing
Benchmark
Crew schedule
7. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Control
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Problem-solving meetings
Storming
8. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Core values
Action item
Preventable crisis
Inclusion
9. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Master schedule
Budget
Departmental/team objectives
Norming
10. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Time-off request policy
Principles
Structured exit interview
Mentor
11. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Cross-functional team
Norming
Negotiation
Nonverbal communication
12. 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
Principles
Wage
Norming
Directing
13. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Professionalism
Terminable acts
Personal treatment
Forming
14. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Crew schedule
Listening
Value Statement
Master schedule
15. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Departmental/team objectives
Environmental noise
Internal communication
Warm-up activity
16. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Action item
Decoding
Root cause
Covers
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
Information receiver
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Environmental noise
18. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Budget
Information sender
Agenda
Measurable results
19. 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
Stress Management
Payroll standards
Brainstorming meetings
Root cause
20. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Voluntary termination
Spin
Professional Development
Unpreventable crisis
21. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Delegation
Message channel
Collective bargaining agreement
Control
22. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Delegation
Historical sales information
Sexual harassment
Problem-solving model
23. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Vision Statement
Nonverbal communication
Wage
Floaters
24. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Decoding
Contact list
Sales projections
Historical sales information
25. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Interfunctional team
Communication
Facilitator
Spin
26. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Progressive disciplinary action
Principles
Information sender
Agenda
27. Developing the message to be sent
Personal treatment
Encoding
Value Statement
Informal communication
28. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Spin
Affection
Crew schedule
Bonuses
29. 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
Core values
Negotiation
Message channel
Root cause
30. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Wage
Professionalism
Formal communication
Problem-solving team
31. 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
Brainstorming
Performance review cycles
Certification
Workplace Ethics
32. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Debrief meeting
Workplace Ethics
Action item
Problem-solving team
33. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Negotiation
Professionalism
Message context
Networking
34. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Warm-up activity
Call/emergency meetings
Budget
Delegation
35. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Minutes
Media policy
Planning
Encoding
36. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Meeting
Team
Storming
Sexual harassment
37. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Payroll standards
Nepotism
Alternative
Time-off request policy
38. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Leadership
Forming
Problem solving
Crisis
39. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Minutes
Standard
Decoding
Teamwork
40. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Contact list
Ground rules
Merit pay
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
41. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Brainstorming meetings
Mentor
Standard
Performing
42. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Crew schedule
Sales projections
Cross-functional team
Debrief meeting
43. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Semivariable costs
Ground rules
Management schedule
Principles
44. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Debrief meeting
Bonuses
Sales projections
Voluntary termination
45. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Time-off request policy
Interpersonal communication
Compensation
Unpreventable crisis
46. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Leadership
Time-off request policy
Nonverbal communication
Teamwork
47. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Internal communication
Commissions
Documentation
Minutes
48. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Structured exit interview
Crew schedule
Delegation
Minutes
49. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Performance review cycles
Environmental noise
Contact list
Preventable crisis
50. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Media policy
Measurable results
Mentor