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HRI Certification
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certifications
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hri
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Certification
Deployment chart
Minutes
Benchmark
2. 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
Information receiver
Core values
Next steps
Performance standard
3. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Mediation
Professional Development
Accountability
Management schedule
4. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Contingency plan
Debrief meeting
Teamwork
Controllable costs
5. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Structured exit interview
Parking lot
Team
Message channel
6. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Negotiation
Mentor
Terminable acts
7. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Agenda
Action plan
Self-directed teams
Professional Development
8. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Structured exit interview
Delegation
Contact list
Contingency plan
9. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Wage
Commissions
Standard
Stress
10. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Facilitator
Warm-up activity
Inclusion
11. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Brainstorming
Next steps
Interfunctional team
Message
12. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Delegation
Professional Development
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Merit pay
13. Statements of desired results
Goal
Standard
Mediation
Self-directed teams
14. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Environmental noise
Formal communication
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Deployment chart
15. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Conflict resolution
Floaters
Involuntary termination
Value Statement
16. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Shift leaders
Self-disclosure
Minutes
Cross-functional team
17. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Shift leaders
Meeting
Collective bargaining agreement
Listening
18. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Organizational communication
Environmental noise
Problem-solving model
Budget
19. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Alternative
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Commissions
Exit interview
20. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Supporting
Call/emergency meetings
Planning
Nonverbal communication
21. 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
Performance review cycles
Unpreventable crisis
Terminable acts
Certification
22. Meals to be served
Informal communication
Covers
Media policy
Scheduling
23. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Delegation
Call/emergency meetings
Problem-solving team
Commissions
24. A potential solution to a problem
Information meetings
Mediation
Certification
Alternative
25. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Favoritism
Salaries
Meeting
Progressive disciplinary action
26. Costs that management cannot control
Action plan
Next steps
Noncontrollable costs
Debrief meeting
27. 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
Ground rules
Empathy
Semivariable costs
Team
28. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Core values
Problem
Sales projections
Problem-solving team
29. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Team
Environmental noise
Supporting
Documentation
30. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Delegation
Covers
Interfunctional team
Ground rules
31. Developing the message to be sent
Standard
Management schedule
Encoding
Leadership
32. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Bonuses
Mentor
Benchmark
Nonverbal communication
33. 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
Certification
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Favoritism
Decoding
34. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Floaters
Involuntary termination
Warm-up activity
Performance standard
35. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Affection
Media policy
Scheduling
Interfunctional team
36. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Motivators/Satisfiers
Forming
Delegation
Interpersonal communication
37. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Deployment chart
Involuntary termination
Message channel
Inclusion
38. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Spin
Minutes
Vision Statement
Arbitration
39. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Communication
Unstructured exit interview
Individual performance of objectives
40. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Strategic priority
Arbitration
Delegation
Debrief meeting
41. Govern unemployment compensation
Teamwork
Minutes
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Affection
42. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Standard
Measurable results
Noncontrollable costs
Brainstorming meetings
43. 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
Sexual harassment
Involuntary termination
Forming
Shift leaders
44. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Core values
Brainstorming
Nonverbal communication
Management schedule
45. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Controllable costs
Message
Covers
Management schedule
46. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Professionalism
Interfunctional team
Decoding
Contingency plan
47. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Payroll standards
Sexual harassment
Accountability
Interfunctional team
48. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Compensation
Evacuation
Individual performance of objectives
Self-directed teams
49. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Organizational communication
Next steps
Accountability
SWOT analysis
50. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Ground rules
Directing
Listening