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HRI Certification
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Instructions:
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. The environment that a message travels through
Objective
Decoding
Historical sales information
Message context
2. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Nepotism
Professional Development
Delegation
3. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Unpreventable crisis
Accountability
Listening
Involuntary termination
4. Costs that management cannot control
Problem-solving model
Noncontrollable costs
Message context
Evacuation
5. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Ground rules
Standard
Message channel
Commissions
6. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Voluntary termination
Sales projections
Leadership
Controllable costs
7. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Mentor
Departmental/team objectives
Formal communication
Employee absence policy
8. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Call/emergency meetings
Payroll standards
Action meetings
Professionalism
9. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
SWOT analysis
Deployment chart
Performance standard
Directing
10. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Media policy
Bonuses
Storming
Action meetings
11. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Time Management
Supporting
Core values
Environmental noise
12. 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
Motivation
Evacuation
Performance review cycles
Problem-solving meetings
13. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Salaries
Crisis
Nepotism
Exit interview
14. 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
Core values
Problem-solving meetings
Action item
Floaters
15. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Empathy
Measurable results
Meeting
Voluntary termination
16. The person for whom the communication is intended
Unstructured exit interview
Environmental noise
Professionalism
Information receiver
17. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Decoding
Semivariable costs
Empathy
Master schedule
18. 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
Motivation
Standard
Management
Benchmark
19. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Floaters
Storming
Problem-solving model
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
20. 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
Environmental noise
Affection
Exit interview
21. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Problem-solving team
Mission Statement
Supporting
Directing
22. Govern unemployment compensation
Root cause
Unstructured exit interview
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Media policy
23. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Management
Measurable results
Collective bargaining agreement
Negotiation
24. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Control
Performance standard
Team
25. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Objective
Management
Formal communication
Facilitator
26. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Preventable crisis
Problem solving
Employee absence policy
Internal communication
27. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Call/emergency meetings
Action meetings
Action plan
Motivation
28. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Wage
Warm-up activity
Cross-training
Networking
29. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Structured exit interview
Favoritism
Preventable crisis
Compensation
30. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Motivators/Satisfiers
Planning
Favoritism
Evacuation
31. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Ground rules
Cross-functional team
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Covers
32. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Controllable costs
Terminable acts
Debrief meeting
Standard
33. 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
Payroll standards
Motivation
Work styles
Interpersonal communication
34. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Principles
Formal communication
Interpersonal communication
Vision Statement
35. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Principles
Self-disclosure
Terminable acts
36. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Motivators/Satisfiers
Collective bargaining agreement
Work styles
Contingency plan
37. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Nepotism
Negotiation
Internal communication
38. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Encoding
Informal communication
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Information sender
39. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Favoritism
Minutes
Inclusion
Formal communication
40. 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
Wage
Work styles
Mission Statement
Involuntary termination
41. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Wage
Sexual harassment
Departmental/team objectives
Norming
42. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Information sender
Environmental noise
Message
Interfunctional team
43. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Mediation
Mission Statement
Problem-solving meetings
Unpreventable crisis
44. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Workplace Ethics
Teamwork
Problem-solving team
Terminable acts
45. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Ground rules
Encoding
Meeting
Organizational goals
46. Developing the message to be sent
Alternative
Contact list
Encoding
Compensation
47. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Professional Development
Employee absence policy
Meeting
Spin
48. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Motivation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Crisis
Core values
49. 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
Stress Management
Debrief meeting
Spin
Cross-functional team
50. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Message channel
Planning
Problem-solving meetings
Time-off request policy