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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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1. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Root cause
Floaters
Workplace Ethics
Message
2. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Certification
Control
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Commissions
3. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Merit pay
Crew schedule
Bonuses
Ground rules
4. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Bonuses
Control
Performing
Individual performance of objectives
5. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Measurable results
Cross-functional team
Interpersonal communication
Time-off request policy
6. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Professionalism
Warm-up activity
Controllable costs
Standard
7. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Communication
Networking
Objective
Forming
8. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Exit interview
Strategic priority
Team
Goal
9. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Parking lot
Informal communication
Unpreventable crisis
Interpersonal communication
10. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Principles
Empathy
Message
11. Costs that management cannot control
Motivators/Satisfiers
Noncontrollable costs
Controllable costs
Covers
12. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Vision Statement
Delegation
Interfunctional team
Warm-up activity
13. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Scheduling
Preventable crisis
Interfunctional team
Debrief meeting
14. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Negotiation
Organizational goals
Action meetings
Problem-solving model
15. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Management
Encoding
Supporting
16. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Certification
Stress
Shift leaders
Agenda
17. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Information sender
Networking
Mentor
Debrief meeting
18. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Controllable costs
Nepotism
Alternative
Supporting
19. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Nonverbal communication
Value Statement
Covers
Historical sales information
20. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Sales projections
Debrief meeting
Accountability
Shift leaders
21. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Control
Internal communication
Arbitration
Conflict resolution
22. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Ground rules
Delegation
Bonuses
Supporting
23. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Action plan
Deployment chart
Warm-up activity
Information sender
24. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Objective
Information receiver
Mediation
Time Management
25. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Contingency plan
Documentation
Exit interview
26. A potential solution to a problem
Alternative
Interfunctional team
Goal
Performance review cycles
27. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Self-directed teams
Root cause
Principles
Bonuses
28. A conversation without prepared questions
Information sender
Team
Unstructured exit interview
Agenda
29. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Warm-up activity
Action meetings
Internal communication
Planning
30. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Organizational communication
Internal communication
Crew schedule
Message channel
31. Meals to be served
Covers
Collective bargaining agreement
Controllable costs
Decoding
32. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Evacuation
Storming
Leadership
Organizational communication
33. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
SWOT analysis
Sales projections
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Deployment chart
34. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Problem
Message context
Scheduling
Voluntary termination
35. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Information meetings
Media policy
Contingency plan
Communication
36. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Meeting
Listening
Time-off request policy
Environmental noise
37. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Departmental/team objectives
Organizational communication
Information receiver
Internal communication
38. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Covers
Problem-solving model
Listening
Problem
39. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Organizational communication
Problem-solving model
Workplace Ethics
Encoding
40. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Covers
Problem solving
Exit interview
Networking
41. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Leadership
Information meetings
Informal communication
Value Statement
42. 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
Sales projections
Semivariable costs
Structured exit interview
Certification
43. 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
Ground rules
Core values
Departmental/team objectives
Encoding
44. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Salaries
Measurable results
Motivators/Satisfiers
Wage
45. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Shift leaders
Problem-solving meetings
Personal treatment
Benchmark
46. 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
Management
Unpreventable crisis
Problem-solving meetings
Strategic priority
47. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Storming
Norming
Controllable costs
Affection
48. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Professionalism
Cross-functional team
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
49. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Mission Statement
Debrief meeting
Leadership
Professional Development
50. Costs that management can control
Terminable acts
Planning
Commissions
Controllable costs