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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 report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Departmental/team objectives
Preventable crisis
Cross-functional team
Documentation
2. 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
Meeting
Directing
Forming
Benchmark
3. The environment that a message travels through
Motivators/Satisfiers
SWOT analysis
Message context
Next steps
4. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Goal
Delegation
Problem-solving team
5. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Delegation
Meeting
Formal communication
Commissions
6. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Management
Conflict resolution
Problem
Budget
7. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Ground rules
Delegation
Motivators/Satisfiers
Information meetings
8. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Media policy
Motivation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Scheduling
9. Statements of desired results
Agenda
Goal
Inclusion
Time Management
10. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Delegation
Payroll standards
Problem solving
Action meetings
11. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Interfunctional team
SWOT analysis
Controllable costs
Informal communication
12. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Principles
Performance review cycles
Information sender
Problem solving
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
Workplace Ethics
Principles
Forming
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
14. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Mentor
Crew schedule
Progressive disciplinary action
Floaters
15. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Performance standard
Crisis
Work styles
Individual performance of objectives
16. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Work styles
Self-disclosure
Storming
Facilitator
17. Developing the message to be sent
Control
Encoding
Delegation
Delegation
18. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Stress Management
Root cause
Exit interview
Internal communication
19. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Delegation
Contact list
Arbitration
Shift leaders
20. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Vision Statement
Merit pay
Root cause
Motivation
21. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Warm-up activity
Conflict resolution
Communication
Cross-functional team
22. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Benchmark
Mission Statement
Budget
Warm-up activity
23. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Decoding
Warm-up activity
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Delegation
24. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Scheduling
Problem-solving meetings
Compensation
Action item
25. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Problem solving
Media policy
Brainstorming meetings
Motivators/Satisfiers
26. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Merit pay
Information receiver
Departmental/team objectives
27. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Performing
Time-off request policy
Performance standard
Parking lot
28. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Value Statement
Standard
Supporting
Motivation
29. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Contact list
Control
Environmental noise
Time Management
30. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Mentor
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Information meetings
Historical sales information
31. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Call/emergency meetings
Measurable results
Strategic priority
Historical sales information
32. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Semivariable costs
Personal treatment
Unstructured exit interview
Interpersonal communication
33. Meetings that are scheduled on a regular basis between the employee and employer to discuss the employee's job performance and additional pay - if any - for the coming year
Norming
Motivation
Performance review cycles
Performance standard
34. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Favoritism
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Problem-solving team
Organizational goals
35. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Scheduling
Agenda
Communication
Listening
36. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Message
Networking
Performing
Vision Statement
37. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Cross-functional team
Noncontrollable costs
Norming
Information meetings
38. 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
Vision Statement
Voluntary termination
Nepotism
Involuntary termination
39. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Shift leaders
Root cause
Nepotism
Documentation
40. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Accountability
Action plan
Cross-functional team
Shift leaders
41. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Debrief meeting
Ground rules
Commissions
Interfunctional team
42. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Call/emergency meetings
Goal
Professionalism
Parking lot
43. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Interpersonal communication
Departmental/team objectives
Brainstorming
Spin
44. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Organizational communication
Strategic priority
Preventable crisis
Motivators/Satisfiers
45. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Ground rules
Personal treatment
Organizational goals
Bonuses
46. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Value Statement
Salaries
Covers
Sexual harassment
47. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Core values
Cross-training
Delegation
Information meetings
48. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Organizational communication
Performing
Problem-solving team
Commissions
49. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Accountability
Favoritism
Spin
Cross-functional team
50. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Salaries
Supporting
Structured exit interview
Crew schedule