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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 process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Core values
Listening
Delegation
Merit pay
2. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Ground rules
Terminable acts
Individual performance of objectives
Motivators/Satisfiers
3. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Merit pay
Certification
Empathy
Measurable results
4. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Supporting
Budget
Self-directed teams
Cross-training
5. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Parking lot
Motivators/Satisfiers
Standard
Collective bargaining agreement
6. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Stress Management
Action meetings
Standard
7. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Objective
Collective bargaining agreement
Directing
Spin
8. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Scheduling
Message channel
Time Management
Standard
9. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Decoding
Spin
Wage
Message
10. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Benchmark
Team
Brainstorming
Organizational communication
11. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Environmental noise
Teamwork
Floaters
12. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Unpreventable crisis
Problem-solving meetings
Management schedule
Parking lot
13. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Information receiver
Problem solving
Informal communication
Management
14. Meals to be served
Principles
Motivation
Certification
Covers
15. Govern unemployment compensation
Covers
Compensation
Brainstorming meetings
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
16. 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
Cross-training
Compensation
Stress Management
Communication
17. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Cross-functional team
Problem
Cross-training
Semivariable costs
18. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Next steps
Exit interview
Mediation
19. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Deployment chart
Nepotism
Compensation
Progressive disciplinary action
20. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Management schedule
Principles
Workplace Ethics
Interfunctional team
21. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Teamwork
Debrief meeting
Arbitration
Stress Management
22. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Mediation
Self-directed teams
Shift leaders
Nepotism
23. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Personal treatment
Decoding
Principles
Standard
24. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Supporting
Affection
Stress
Nonverbal communication
25. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Facilitator
Bonuses
Planning
Arbitration
26. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Delegation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Brainstorming
Time Management
27. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Communication
Planning
Measurable results
Performing
28. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Contingency plan
Employee absence policy
Control
Performing
29. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Contact list
Message
Performance review cycles
Agenda
30. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Information meetings
Organizational goals
Voluntary termination
Compensation
31. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Payroll standards
Historical sales information
Strategic priority
Problem
32. Personal characteristics that are work-related
SWOT analysis
Employee absence policy
Work styles
Stress
33. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
SWOT analysis
Nonverbal communication
Problem
Unstructured exit interview
34. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Supporting
Encoding
Control
Time Management
35. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Objective
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Wage
Departmental/team objectives
36. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Spin
Brainstorming
Preventable crisis
Facilitator
37. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Professional Development
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Problem-solving meetings
Teamwork
38. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Organizational goals
Information receiver
Crisis
Compensation
39. 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
Arbitration
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Planning
40. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Contact list
Commissions
Management
Merit pay
41. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Documentation
Parking lot
Brainstorming
Contingency plan
42. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Encoding
Ground rules
Self-disclosure
Sexual harassment
43. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Contact list
Planning
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Workplace Ethics
44. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Minutes
Action item
Interfunctional team
Historical sales information
45. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Progressive disciplinary action
Empathy
Standard
Certification
46. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Listening
Action plan
Certification
Supporting
47. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Organizational goals
Workplace Ethics
Self-disclosure
Facilitator
48. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Organizational goals
Performing
Inclusion
Delegation
49. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Preventable crisis
Self-directed teams
Organizational communication
Problem-solving team
50. The person for whom the communication is intended
Terminable acts
Compensation
Scheduling
Information receiver