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HRI Certification
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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. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Control
Work styles
Norming
2. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Favoritism
Motivators/Satisfiers
Forming
Contingency plan
3. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Control
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Brainstorming
4. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Benchmark
Stress
Merit pay
Formal communication
5. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Arbitration
Merit pay
Workplace Ethics
Cross-functional team
6. 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
Floaters
Stress Management
Core values
SWOT analysis
7. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Message channel
Control
Exit interview
Self-directed teams
8. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Internal communication
Unstructured exit interview
Agenda
Terminable acts
9. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Alternative
Problem
Strategic priority
Control
10. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Action meetings
Crew schedule
Supporting
11. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Shift leaders
Budget
Facilitator
Cross-functional team
12. Govern unemployment compensation
Progressive disciplinary action
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Spin
Action plan
13. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Cross-training
Action item
Documentation
Information sender
14. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Measurable results
Mentor
Team
Professionalism
15. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Departmental/team objectives
Information sender
Norming
Accountability
16. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Problem solving
Time-off request policy
Motivators/Satisfiers
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
17. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Exit interview
Floaters
Interpersonal communication
Mission Statement
18. Costs that management cannot control
Departmental/team objectives
Noncontrollable costs
Empathy
Individual performance of objectives
19. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Sexual harassment
Time Management
Warm-up activity
Structured exit interview
20. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Agenda
Sexual harassment
Root cause
Message channel
21. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Deployment chart
Favoritism
Norming
Structured exit interview
22. Developing the message to be sent
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Encoding
Interpersonal communication
Nonverbal communication
23. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Planning
Deployment chart
Root cause
Norming
24. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Sales projections
Scheduling
Commissions
Informal communication
25. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Problem solving
Mission Statement
Time Management
Contact list
26. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Minutes
Benchmark
Interpersonal communication
Cross-training
27. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Employee absence policy
Covers
Individual performance of objectives
Decoding
28. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Problem-solving meetings
Personal treatment
Historical sales information
Merit pay
29. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Action meetings
Nepotism
Information meetings
Collective bargaining agreement
30. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Root cause
Crew schedule
Deployment chart
Documentation
31. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Historical sales information
Professionalism
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Strategic priority
32. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Message context
Compensation
Standard
Brainstorming
33. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Supporting
Informal communication
Teamwork
Storming
34. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Measurable results
Affection
Mediation
Problem-solving model
35. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Planning
Professional Development
Master schedule
Delegation
36. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Strategic priority
Salaries
Ground rules
Value Statement
37. 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
Internal communication
Delegation
Motivation
Meeting
38. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Arbitration
Storming
Departmental/team objectives
Performance review cycles
39. Meals to be served
Ground rules
Covers
Bonuses
Collective bargaining agreement
40. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Control
Stress Management
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Principles
41. 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
Sexual harassment
Ground rules
Minutes
Mission Statement
42. 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
Brainstorming
Performing
Personal treatment
Next steps
43. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Crisis
Certification
Time-off request policy
Progressive disciplinary action
44. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Vision Statement
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Leadership
Budget
45. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Favoritism
Information meetings
Performing
Teamwork
46. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Action plan
Supporting
Shift leaders
Action item
47. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Payroll standards
Mediation
Team
Communication
48. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Motivation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Conflict resolution
Facilitator
49. The environment that a message travels through
Message context
Mediation
Work styles
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
50. 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
Root cause
Involuntary termination
Message context
Semivariable costs