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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. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Media policy
Payroll standards
Semivariable costs
Standard
2. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Involuntary termination
Planning
Professional Development
Ground rules
3. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Teamwork
Shift leaders
Motivation
Evacuation
4. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Exit interview
Professional Development
Value Statement
Problem solving
5. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Personal treatment
Internal communication
Call/emergency meetings
Norming
6. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Shift leaders
Stress Management
Cross-functional team
Professional Development
7. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Preventable crisis
Core values
Performance standard
Warm-up activity
8. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Agenda
Delegation
Mediation
Parking lot
9. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Deployment chart
Information sender
Environmental noise
Call/emergency meetings
10. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Professional Development
Media policy
Next steps
11. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Performance standard
Management schedule
Planning
Principles
12. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Spin
Core values
Environmental noise
13. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Warm-up activity
Bonuses
Unstructured exit interview
Self-disclosure
14. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Problem-solving team
Wage
Arbitration
Negotiation
15. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Interpersonal communication
Forming
Standard
Brainstorming
16. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Floaters
Crisis
Historical sales information
Arbitration
17. 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
Motivation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Brainstorming
Management
18. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Compensation
Mediation
Action item
Problem-solving model
19. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Performance standard
Merit pay
Stress
Formal communication
20. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Historical sales information
Stress Management
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Voluntary termination
21. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Personal treatment
Professionalism
Stress
Arbitration
22. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Unpreventable crisis
Motivators/Satisfiers
Motivation
Contingency plan
23. The person for whom the communication is intended
Delegation
Information receiver
Debrief meeting
Management schedule
24. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Mentor
Departmental/team objectives
Objective
Self-directed teams
25. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Delegation
Self-disclosure
Communication
Preventable crisis
26. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Information receiver
Strategic priority
Crew schedule
Noncontrollable costs
27. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Nonverbal communication
Delegation
Contingency plan
Deployment chart
28. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Value Statement
Brainstorming
Self-directed teams
Action meetings
29. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Sales projections
Minutes
Master schedule
Contact list
30. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Control
Inclusion
Problem-solving meetings
Information meetings
31. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Cross-training
Teamwork
Networking
Message channel
32. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Standard
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Contingency plan
Problem
33. Those factors that cause a person to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner and may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli
Brainstorming
Motivation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Principles
34. 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
Principles
Certification
Sexual harassment
Internal communication
35. 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
Individual performance of objectives
Motivation
Parking lot
Stress Management
36. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Motivators/Satisfiers
Shift leaders
Standard
Communication
37. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Personal treatment
Message context
Call/emergency meetings
Storming
38. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Structured exit interview
Message
Payroll standards
Spin
39. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Inclusion
Covers
Management
Performance standard
40. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Negotiation
Delegation
Empathy
Exit interview
41. 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
Problem
Alternative
Involuntary termination
Stress Management
42. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Networking
Performance standard
Work styles
Storming
43. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Teamwork
Terminable acts
Strategic priority
Delegation
44. 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
Inclusion
Goal
Certification
45. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Networking
Contingency plan
Sexual harassment
Warm-up activity
46. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Arbitration
Departmental/team objectives
Professionalism
Information sender
47. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Time-off request policy
Certification
Action item
Historical sales information
48. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Message context
Empathy
Performing
Evacuation
49. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Interfunctional team
Work styles
SWOT analysis
Root cause
50. 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
Message
Performance review cycles
Delegation
Preventable crisis