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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. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Time-off request policy
Parking lot
Stress
Leadership
2. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Sexual harassment
Spin
Certification
Next steps
3. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Spin
Controllable costs
Mediation
Departmental/team objectives
4. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Organizational communication
Delegation
Deployment chart
Directing
5. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Crew schedule
Sales projections
Value Statement
Workplace Ethics
6. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Information meetings
Payroll standards
Action meetings
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
7. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Objective
Information meetings
Directing
Deployment chart
8. 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
Debrief meeting
Core values
Standard
Directing
9. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Personal treatment
Warm-up activity
Inclusion
Mission Statement
10. Those costs that have both a fixed and variable element - such that one part will not change as sales volume changes - whereas the other part will change
Message context
Organizational goals
Semivariable costs
Documentation
11. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Merit pay
Individual performance of objectives
Contact list
Professional Development
12. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Storming
Documentation
Master schedule
Delegation
13. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Problem-solving model
Action item
Problem-solving meetings
Professional Development
14. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Work styles
Brainstorming meetings
Unpreventable crisis
Action item
15. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Unstructured exit interview
Internal communication
Management schedule
Workplace Ethics
16. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Departmental/team objectives
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Affection
Mission Statement
17. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Workplace Ethics
Professional Development
Individual performance of objectives
Informal communication
18. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Stress Management
Departmental/team objectives
Certification
Deployment chart
19. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Meeting
Organizational communication
Shift leaders
Mentor
20. Govern unemployment compensation
Arbitration
Internal communication
Negotiation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
21. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Time-off request policy
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Contingency plan
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
22. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Nonverbal communication
Value Statement
Management schedule
Motivation
23. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Action meetings
Structured exit interview
Team
Performance review cycles
24. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Salaries
Organizational goals
Workplace Ethics
Message channel
25. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Ground rules
Personal treatment
Action item
Historical sales information
26. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem-solving model
Mentor
Informal communication
Certification
27. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Cross-functional team
Bonuses
Delegation
Preventable crisis
28. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Informal communication
Message channel
Unstructured exit interview
Cross-training
29. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Self-disclosure
Brainstorming meetings
Affection
Meeting
30. 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
Environmental noise
Budget
Stress Management
Professional Development
31. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Problem-solving model
Workplace Ethics
Sexual harassment
Payroll standards
32. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Employee absence policy
Floaters
Deployment chart
Measurable results
33. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Warm-up activity
Self-directed teams
Semivariable costs
Contact list
34. 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
Scheduling
Next steps
Involuntary termination
Internal communication
35. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Employee absence policy
Time Management
Commissions
Meeting
36. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Information receiver
Value Statement
Shift leaders
Action meetings
37. 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
Scheduling
Voluntary termination
Motivation
Sales projections
38. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Semivariable costs
Self-directed teams
Minutes
Contingency plan
39. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Vision Statement
Problem-solving meetings
Covers
Warm-up activity
40. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Message channel
Certification
Media policy
Negotiation
41. Statements of desired results
Payroll standards
Professional Development
Goal
Problem-solving team
42. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Contact list
Message
Stress
Action item
43. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Goal
Value Statement
Action plan
44. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Directing
Performing
Conflict resolution
Delegation
45. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Performance standard
Storming
Terminable acts
Information meetings
46. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Sexual harassment
Stress
Measurable results
Agenda
47. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Management schedule
Action plan
Root cause
Problem-solving team
48. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Performance standard
Call/emergency meetings
Crisis
Bonuses
49. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Self-disclosure
Individual performance of objectives
Warm-up activity
Mission Statement
50. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Performance standard
Cross-training
Internal communication
Problem solving