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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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. Costs that management cannot control
Crisis
Standard
Noncontrollable costs
Problem
2. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Affection
Compensation
Vision Statement
Action meetings
3. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Ground rules
Merit pay
Certification
Principles
4. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Problem solving
Norming
Delegation
Leadership
5. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Preventable crisis
Facilitator
Cross-functional team
Semivariable costs
6. 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
Contact list
Covers
Management
Storming
7. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
SWOT analysis
Communication
Departmental/team objectives
Control
8. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Performance standard
Internal communication
Problem-solving team
Cross-training
9. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Internal communication
Certification
Contingency plan
Forming
10. Statements of desired results
Goal
Meeting
Storming
Conflict resolution
11. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Contingency plan
Alternative
Mediation
Objective
12. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Sales projections
Performing
Motivation
Professional Development
13. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Delegation
Formal communication
Professional Development
Parking lot
14. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Performance review cycles
SWOT analysis
Organizational communication
Professional Development
15. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Listening
Compensation
Organizational communication
Principles
16. 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
Communication
Conflict resolution
Minutes
Delegation
17. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Mentor
Favoritism
Value Statement
Vision Statement
18. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Message context
Information meetings
Core values
Decoding
19. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Motivators/Satisfiers
Message channel
Sexual harassment
Individual performance of objectives
20. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Contact list
Information meetings
Floaters
Strategic priority
21. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Interfunctional team
Wage
Workplace Ethics
Voluntary termination
22. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Networking
Cross-functional team
Nonverbal communication
Storming
23. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Interfunctional team
Time-off request policy
Budget
Problem-solving model
24. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Employee absence policy
Negotiation
Cross-functional team
Merit pay
25. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Personal treatment
Call/emergency meetings
Workplace Ethics
Alternative
26. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Stress
Controllable costs
Exit interview
27. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Individual performance of objectives
Motivators/Satisfiers
Brainstorming meetings
Networking
28. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Favoritism
Stress
Time-off request policy
Mission Statement
29. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Interfunctional team
Core values
Problem solving
Historical sales information
30. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Exit interview
Accountability
Personal treatment
Performance review cycles
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
Minutes
Certification
Stress
Contact list
32. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Payroll standards
Negotiation
Sexual harassment
Mission Statement
33. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Favoritism
Professional Development
Team
34. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Commissions
Wage
Exit interview
Ground rules
35. The person for whom the communication is intended
Information receiver
Documentation
Accountability
Unpreventable crisis
36. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Debrief meeting
Message context
Self-directed teams
Communication
37. Costs that management can control
Message channel
Mediation
Stress Management
Controllable costs
38. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Professional Development
Sales projections
Problem
Performance standard
39. Meals to be served
Brainstorming
Covers
Objective
Value Statement
40. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Covers
Deployment chart
Cross-functional team
Time Management
41. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Call/emergency meetings
Conflict resolution
Workplace Ethics
Departmental/team objectives
42. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Contingency plan
Root cause
Involuntary termination
Action item
43. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Workplace Ethics
Crew schedule
Standard
Interfunctional team
44. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Facilitator
Teamwork
Mediation
Motivators/Satisfiers
45. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Personal treatment
Brainstorming meetings
Networking
Problem-solving team
46. 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
Core values
Affection
Involuntary termination
Unstructured exit interview
47. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Organizational goals
Certification
Stress Management
48. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Professionalism
Problem-solving meetings
Stress
Problem
49. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Shift leaders
Action plan
Principles
Information sender
50. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Stress Management
Documentation
Workplace Ethics
Interfunctional team