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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. A potential solution to a problem
Ground rules
Root cause
Objective
Alternative
2. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Leadership
Historical sales information
Shift leaders
Commissions
3. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Parking lot
Scheduling
Motivators/Satisfiers
Brainstorming meetings
4. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Controllable costs
Warm-up activity
Forming
Stress Management
5. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Standard
Mediation
Objective
Environmental noise
6. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Inclusion
Motivation
Formal communication
Professional Development
7. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Management
Message context
Historical sales information
Teamwork
8. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Interfunctional team
Measurable results
Teamwork
Professionalism
9. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Standard
Nepotism
Personal treatment
Facilitator
10. Meals to be served
Covers
Storming
Historical sales information
Debrief meeting
11. Statements of desired results
Performance standard
Listening
Parking lot
Goal
12. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Root cause
Empathy
Master schedule
Benchmark
13. 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
Objective
Information receiver
Professional Development
14. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Interfunctional team
Environmental noise
Value Statement
15. Developing the message to be sent
Floaters
Encoding
Information sender
Workplace Ethics
16. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Arbitration
Scheduling
Commissions
Media policy
17. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Performing
Problem-solving meetings
Contact list
Management schedule
18. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Listening
Mentor
Payroll standards
Delegation
19. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Delegation
Sexual harassment
Organizational communication
Time-off request policy
20. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Commissions
Cross-training
Master schedule
Salaries
21. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Progressive disciplinary action
Departmental/team objectives
Time-off request policy
Performance standard
22. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Progressive disciplinary action
Workplace Ethics
Individual performance of objectives
Norming
23. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Semivariable costs
Deployment chart
Professional Development
Stress
24. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Historical sales information
Floaters
Accountability
Empathy
25. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Conflict resolution
Decoding
Information meetings
Favoritism
26. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Floaters
Stress Management
Problem
Strategic priority
27. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Noncontrollable costs
Commissions
Standard
Accountability
28. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Salaries
Benchmark
Nepotism
Employee absence policy
29. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Crew schedule
Brainstorming
Decoding
Cross-functional team
30. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Management schedule
Warm-up activity
Favoritism
31. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Problem-solving team
Action meetings
Personal treatment
Performing
32. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Departmental/team objectives
Brainstorming meetings
Budget
Teamwork
33. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Individual performance of objectives
Message
Call/emergency meetings
Crew schedule
34. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Exit interview
Action meetings
Information receiver
Empathy
35. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Objective
Empathy
Progressive disciplinary action
Networking
36. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Networking
Contact list
Bonuses
Crew schedule
37. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Leadership
Root cause
Arbitration
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
38. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Problem
Goal
Vision Statement
Spin
39. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Encoding
Performing
Work styles
Standard
40. 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
Merit pay
Noncontrollable costs
Preventable crisis
Semivariable costs
41. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Decoding
Informal communication
Performance standard
Planning
42. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Budget
Progressive disciplinary action
Warm-up activity
Negotiation
43. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Standard
Agenda
Performance review cycles
Spin
44. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Value Statement
Parking lot
Media policy
Contingency plan
45. 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
Facilitator
Controllable costs
Involuntary termination
Semivariable costs
46. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Decoding
Problem solving
Delegation
Objective
47. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Action meetings
Sales projections
Planning
Core values
48. 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)
Management schedule
Brainstorming
Debrief meeting
49. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Facilitator
Favoritism
Principles
Professional Development
50. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Inclusion
Environmental noise
Budget
Listening