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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Action item
Organizational goals
Certification
Standard
2. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Problem-solving team
Nonverbal communication
Certification
Warm-up activity
3. A conversation without prepared questions
Action plan
Crew schedule
Unstructured exit interview
Leadership
4. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Workplace Ethics
Interfunctional team
Brainstorming
5. Statements of desired results
Floaters
Goal
Semivariable costs
Self-disclosure
6. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Environmental noise
Minutes
Encoding
Organizational goals
7. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Performing
Facilitator
Interfunctional team
Listening
8. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Scheduling
Merit pay
Documentation
Certification
9. 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
Brainstorming
Bonuses
Stress
Directing
10. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Floaters
Professionalism
Communication
Planning
11. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Crew schedule
Scheduling
Management
Parking lot
12. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Shift leaders
Structured exit interview
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Compensation
13. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Performing
Teamwork
Motivation
Mission Statement
14. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Wage
Time Management
Action item
Motivation
15. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Involuntary termination
Parking lot
Agenda
Facilitator
16. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Problem-solving meetings
Empathy
Master schedule
Networking
17. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Interfunctional team
Collective bargaining agreement
Employee absence policy
Standard
18. Costs that management can control
Message
Evacuation
Controllable costs
Organizational goals
19. Costs that management cannot control
Crisis
Mentor
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Noncontrollable costs
20. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Professional Development
Agenda
Brainstorming
Collective bargaining agreement
21. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Performing
Delegation
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Cross-training
22. 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
Brainstorming meetings
Deployment chart
Time-off request policy
23. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Voluntary termination
Mentor
Problem-solving model
Favoritism
24. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Core values
Message
Nepotism
Spin
25. 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
Minutes
Wage
Information receiver
Collective bargaining agreement
26. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Vision Statement
Inclusion
Parking lot
Information receiver
27. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Empathy
Wage
Inclusion
Informal communication
28. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Documentation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Employee absence policy
Problem-solving team
29. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Involuntary termination
Minutes
Exit interview
Parking lot
30. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Contingency plan
Involuntary termination
Objective
Empathy
31. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Historical sales information
Information sender
Control
Directing
32. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Team
Vision Statement
Budget
Message channel
33. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Unpreventable crisis
Arbitration
Storming
Departmental/team objectives
34. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Evacuation
Wage
Salaries
Information receiver
35. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Parking lot
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Contact list
Objective
36. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Media policy
Voluntary termination
Covers
Organizational communication
37. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Information meetings
Budget
Conflict resolution
38. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Motivators/Satisfiers
Sales projections
Problem
Terminable acts
39. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Forming
Information receiver
Planning
Time Management
40. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Personal treatment
Organizational communication
Environmental noise
Payroll standards
41. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Communication
Salaries
Mission Statement
Controllable costs
42. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Work styles
Message context
Merit pay
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
43. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Crisis
Bonuses
Compensation
Problem
44. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Covers
Documentation
Directing
Sexual harassment
45. The ability to plan - organize - direct - staff - control - and evaluate the many functions in a food service organization for the purpose of serving organizational goals
Planning
Management
Information receiver
Mission Statement
46. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
SWOT analysis
Commissions
Inclusion
Covers
47. 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
Vision Statement
Next steps
Time-off request policy
Stress Management
48. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Arbitration
Measurable results
Nonverbal communication
Employee absence policy
49. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Organizational communication
Root cause
Message channel
Warm-up activity
50. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Crisis
Favoritism
Workplace Ethics
Unpreventable crisis