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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. 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
Motivation
Action plan
Documentation
Unpreventable crisis
2. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Structured exit interview
Communication
Nonverbal communication
Decoding
3. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Personal treatment
Informal communication
Formal communication
Standard
4. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Mediation
Benchmark
Professionalism
Professional Development
5. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Exit interview
Floaters
Time Management
Master schedule
6. 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
Parking lot
Directing
Performing
Structured exit interview
7. The environment that a message travels through
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Message context
Work styles
Strategic priority
8. Developing the message to be sent
Involuntary termination
Encoding
Message channel
Principles
9. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Supporting
Semivariable costs
Individual performance of objectives
Organizational goals
10. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem-solving model
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Time-off request policy
Teamwork
11. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Negotiation
Call/emergency meetings
Vision Statement
Evacuation
12. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Budget
Voluntary termination
Directing
Documentation
13. A conversation without prepared questions
Action item
Accountability
Unstructured exit interview
Management
14. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Self-directed teams
Problem
Networking
Action item
15. 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
Individual performance of objectives
Affection
Semivariable costs
Delegation
16. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Strategic priority
Warm-up activity
Work styles
Delegation
17. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Professionalism
Media policy
Networking
Terminable acts
18. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Control
Organizational goals
Strategic priority
Management
19. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Budget
Workplace Ethics
Agenda
Problem solving
20. 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
Action plan
Minutes
Problem-solving model
Interpersonal communication
21. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Listening
Bonuses
Principles
Individual performance of objectives
22. Costs that management cannot control
Noncontrollable costs
Root cause
Brainstorming meetings
Supporting
23. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Message context
Action meetings
Norming
Merit pay
24. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Semivariable costs
Strategic priority
Standard
Certification
25. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Planning
Self-directed teams
Empathy
Message channel
26. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Objective
Motivation
Listening
Affection
27. 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
Agenda
Professionalism
Next steps
Organizational goals
28. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Noncontrollable costs
Formal communication
Time Management
Message channel
29. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Crew schedule
Nonverbal communication
Spin
Alternative
30. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Strategic priority
Structured exit interview
SWOT analysis
Contingency plan
31. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Delegation
Departmental/team objectives
Strategic priority
Merit pay
32. Meals to be served
Interpersonal communication
Covers
Wage
Call/emergency meetings
33. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Crew schedule
Brainstorming meetings
Listening
Arbitration
34. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Warm-up activity
Sexual harassment
Internal communication
Nonverbal communication
35. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Stress Management
Empathy
Budget
36. 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
Involuntary termination
Value Statement
Performance review cycles
Mediation
37. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Contact list
Salaries
Work styles
Facilitator
38. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Message
Contingency plan
Mission Statement
Stress Management
39. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Networking
Cross-training
Agenda
Core values
40. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Principles
Standard
Progressive disciplinary action
Bonuses
41. 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
Information sender
Certification
Terminable acts
Performance review cycles
42. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Empathy
Semivariable costs
Environmental noise
Crisis
43. 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)
Environmental noise
Sales projections
Teamwork
44. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Salaries
Favoritism
Accountability
Work styles
45. The person for whom the communication is intended
Empathy
Information receiver
Compensation
Informal communication
46. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Ground rules
Controllable costs
Commissions
Parking lot
47. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Employee absence policy
Interpersonal communication
Shift leaders
Listening
48. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Formal communication
Workplace Ethics
Semivariable costs
Listening
49. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Spin
Leadership
Stress Management
Teamwork
50. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Certification
Controllable costs
Brainstorming
Media policy