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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. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Leadership
Crisis
Networking
Meeting
2. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Root cause
Nepotism
Internal communication
Covers
3. 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
Next steps
Benchmark
Performing
Covers
4. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Warm-up activity
Performing
Objective
Networking
5. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Message channel
Objective
Standard
Management
6. Meals to be served
Decoding
Vision Statement
Organizational goals
Covers
7. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Time-off request policy
Collective bargaining agreement
Contact list
Performance standard
8. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Formal communication
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Contact list
Media policy
9. Costs that management cannot control
Professionalism
Planning
Noncontrollable costs
Accountability
10. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Arbitration
Organizational communication
Directing
11. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Information receiver
Work styles
Professionalism
Control
12. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Message context
Workplace Ethics
Commissions
Employee absence policy
13. A potential solution to a problem
Arbitration
Self-disclosure
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Alternative
14. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Negotiation
Deployment chart
Meeting
Brainstorming meetings
15. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Payroll standards
Evacuation
Formal communication
Leadership
16. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Structured exit interview
Message channel
Communication
Interfunctional team
17. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Noncontrollable costs
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Message
Mediation
18. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Teamwork
Problem solving
Cross-functional team
Mentor
19. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Stress Management
Bonuses
Storming
Organizational communication
20. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Problem-solving team
Root cause
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Networking
21. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Action meetings
Payroll standards
Self-disclosure
Problem-solving model
22. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Parking lot
Preventable crisis
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Work styles
23. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Organizational goals
Informal communication
Mentor
Inclusion
24. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Alternative
Objective
Organizational communication
Call/emergency meetings
25. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Accountability
Organizational communication
Personal treatment
Sexual harassment
26. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Supporting
Goal
Interpersonal communication
Message context
27. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Control
Merit pay
Floaters
Action plan
28. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Affection
Contact list
Teamwork
Warm-up activity
29. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Involuntary termination
Cross-functional team
Spin
Vision Statement
30. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Structured exit interview
Information receiver
Leadership
Action plan
31. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Value Statement
Problem
Performing
Scheduling
32. Statements of desired results
Structured exit interview
Teamwork
Goal
Certification
33. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Mentor
Favoritism
Delegation
Controllable costs
34. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Formal communication
Terminable acts
Personal treatment
Networking
35. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Vision Statement
Benchmark
Professionalism
Formal communication
36. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Problem
Action item
Problem-solving meetings
Crisis
37. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Motivators/Satisfiers
Scheduling
Delegation
Minutes
38. Costs that management can control
Minutes
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Self-directed teams
Controllable costs
39. Meetings that share communication
Professional Development
Problem
Information meetings
Supporting
40. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Departmental/team objectives
Benchmark
Brainstorming meetings
Sexual harassment
41. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Problem-solving model
Information sender
Evacuation
Personal treatment
42. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Voluntary termination
Problem-solving model
Facilitator
Unstructured exit interview
43. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Professional Development
Vision Statement
Message channel
44. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Nonverbal communication
Favoritism
Empathy
Work styles
45. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Inclusion
Principles
Evacuation
Sales projections
46. 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
Team
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Directing
Stress Management
47. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Self-directed teams
Cross-training
Listening
Communication
48. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Standard
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Warm-up activity
Leadership
49. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Time Management
Evacuation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Organizational communication
50. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Delegation
Crisis
Stress Management
Networking