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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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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. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Media policy
Nepotism
Bonuses
Core values
2. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Facilitator
Root cause
Crisis
Budget
3. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Agenda
Forming
Merit pay
Facilitator
4. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Planning
Vision Statement
Salaries
Empathy
5. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Control
Master schedule
Merit pay
Departmental/team objectives
6. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Warm-up activity
Standard
Exit interview
Sales projections
7. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Mentor
Call/emergency meetings
Interfunctional team
Motivators/Satisfiers
8. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Self-directed teams
Next steps
Work styles
Root cause
9. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Mission Statement
Leadership
Message channel
Work styles
10. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Contact list
Workplace Ethics
Unpreventable crisis
Exit interview
11. Differs from other forms of communication in that there are usually only a few participants involved (often just two people) - the individuals are in close proximity to each other as shown - and the feedback is immediate
Problem-solving model
Progressive disciplinary action
Favoritism
Interpersonal communication
12. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Parking lot
Cross-training
Root cause
Internal communication
13. Meals to be served
Agenda
Semivariable costs
Interpersonal communication
Covers
14. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Norming
Preventable crisis
Ground rules
Next steps
15. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Contact list
Favoritism
Arbitration
Next steps
16. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Historical sales information
Management schedule
Value Statement
Terminable acts
17. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Directing
Contact list
Exit interview
Facilitator
18. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Brainstorming meetings
Action plan
Time Management
Parking lot
19. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Individual performance of objectives
Bonuses
Agenda
Benchmark
20. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Covers
Time-off request policy
Vision Statement
Team
21. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Preventable crisis
Problem solving
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Stress
22. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Brainstorming meetings
Formal communication
Professionalism
Favoritism
23. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Collective bargaining agreement
Inclusion
Interfunctional team
Warm-up activity
24. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Call/emergency meetings
Directing
Crew schedule
Internal communication
25. 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
Stress
Action meetings
Semivariable costs
Voluntary termination
26. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Problem-solving team
Root cause
Problem-solving meetings
Documentation
27. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Empathy
Problem-solving meetings
Problem-solving team
Terminable acts
28. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Accountability
Information sender
Interfunctional team
Principles
29. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Stress
Historical sales information
Brainstorming meetings
Documentation
30. A potential solution to a problem
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Alternative
Structured exit interview
Directing
31. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Time-off request policy
Motivation
Workplace Ethics
Personal treatment
32. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Motivation
Problem-solving model
Problem-solving team
Strategic priority
33. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Leadership
Structured exit interview
Management schedule
Planning
34. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Problem-solving meetings
Negotiation
Favoritism
Spin
35. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Bonuses
Work styles
Media policy
Documentation
36. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Self-disclosure
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Interpersonal communication
Problem solving
37. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Teamwork
Storming
Self-disclosure
Supporting
38. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Delegation
Action plan
Formal communication
Negotiation
39. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Unstructured exit interview
Problem
Spin
Employee absence policy
40. A conversation without prepared questions
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Crisis
Documentation
Unstructured exit interview
41. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Involuntary termination
Information receiver
SWOT analysis
Forming
42. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Action plan
Internal communication
Media policy
Encoding
43. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Professionalism
Progressive disciplinary action
Minutes
Management
44. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Scheduling
Meeting
Nepotism
Spin
45. Govern unemployment compensation
Conflict resolution
Management
Core values
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
46. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Interpersonal communication
Interfunctional team
Historical sales information
Action meetings
47. Statements of desired results
Message
Goal
Root cause
Delegation
48. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Nepotism
Decoding
Benchmark
Evacuation
49. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Stress
Stress Management
Favoritism
Collective bargaining agreement
50. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Preventable crisis
Principles
Terminable acts
Motivation