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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. Costs that management can control
Media policy
Controllable costs
Self-disclosure
Measurable results
2. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Principles
Management
Standard
Control
3. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Action plan
Historical sales information
Time Management
Standard
4. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Objective
Mission Statement
Bonuses
Root cause
5. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Affection
Informal communication
Delegation
Wage
6. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Floaters
Negotiation
Agenda
Scheduling
7. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Measurable results
Floaters
Interpersonal communication
Arbitration
8. 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
Terminable acts
Payroll standards
Ground rules
9. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Leadership
Agenda
Payroll standards
Bonuses
10. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Contact list
Performance review cycles
Master schedule
Salaries
11. Meals to be served
Objective
Warm-up activity
Crew schedule
Covers
12. Meetings that share communication
Covers
Favoritism
Information meetings
Organizational goals
13. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Ground rules
Delegation
Sales projections
Mediation
14. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Networking
Parking lot
Organizational goals
Directing
15. A potential solution to a problem
Listening
Alternative
Leadership
Work styles
16. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Structured exit interview
Payroll standards
Forming
Problem-solving meetings
17. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Message channel
Mission Statement
Listening
Employee absence policy
18. 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
Semivariable costs
Departmental/team objectives
Unpreventable crisis
Nonverbal communication
19. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Unstructured exit interview
Contact list
Communication
20. 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
Involuntary termination
Standard
Stress
Exit interview
21. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Management
Bonuses
Motivators/Satisfiers
Environmental noise
22. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Problem
Action meetings
Principles
Merit pay
23. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Bonuses
Payroll standards
Delegation
Management schedule
24. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Stress
Inclusion
Collective bargaining agreement
Mediation
25. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Performance review cycles
Empathy
Accountability
Message
26. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Call/emergency meetings
Time-off request policy
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Deployment chart
27. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Performing
Organizational goals
Accountability
Unpreventable crisis
28. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Organizational goals
Cross-functional team
Mediation
29. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Empathy
Voluntary termination
Personal treatment
Standard
30. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Motivation
Master schedule
Crew schedule
Team
31. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Affection
Compensation
Commissions
Debrief meeting
32. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Progressive disciplinary action
Core values
Parking lot
Nonverbal communication
33. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Employee absence policy
Budget
Strategic priority
Stress Management
34. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Networking
Debrief meeting
Collective bargaining agreement
Stress
35. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Listening
Encoding
Interfunctional team
Meeting
36. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Performance review cycles
Control
Cross-training
Structured exit interview
37. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Management
Cross-training
Sexual harassment
Networking
38. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Warm-up activity
Departmental/team objectives
Vision Statement
39. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Mediation
Noncontrollable costs
Progressive disciplinary action
Management schedule
40. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Brainstorming meetings
Inclusion
Supporting
Leadership
41. Statements of desired results
Crisis
Goal
Accountability
Message
42. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Control
Encoding
Individual performance of objectives
Benchmark
43. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Noncontrollable costs
Action meetings
Debrief meeting
Alternative
44. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Information meetings
Message channel
Leadership
Shift leaders
45. 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
Unpreventable crisis
Self-disclosure
Decoding
Next steps
46. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Collective bargaining agreement
Listening
Master schedule
Deployment chart
47. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Master schedule
Arbitration
Interfunctional team
Stress Management
48. 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
Objective
Control
Action item
Core values
49. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Delegation
Core values
Negotiation
Evacuation
50. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Call/emergency meetings
Standard
Motivators/Satisfiers
Ground rules