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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Delegation
Vision Statement
Leadership
Strategic priority
2. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Root cause
Stress
Work styles
Performing
3. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Encoding
Evacuation
Environmental noise
Controllable costs
4. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Documentation
Problem solving
Listening
Arbitration
5. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Supporting
Motivators/Satisfiers
Mentor
Standard
6. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Measurable results
Ground rules
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Professional Development
7. 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
Communication
Formal communication
Next steps
Floaters
8. The person for whom the communication is intended
Certification
Motivation
Favoritism
Information receiver
9. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Delegation
Listening
Bonuses
Teamwork
10. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Management schedule
Covers
Exit interview
Formal communication
11. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Historical sales information
Employee absence policy
Sales projections
Self-directed teams
12. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Merit pay
Organizational communication
Cross-functional team
Personal treatment
13. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Strategic priority
Problem
Nepotism
Bonuses
14. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Measurable results
Listening
Debrief meeting
Problem-solving meetings
15. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Debrief meeting
Nepotism
Planning
Shift leaders
16. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Individual performance of objectives
Standard
Principles
Documentation
17. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Management
Decoding
Action meetings
Terminable acts
18. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Supporting
Historical sales information
Problem-solving model
Networking
19. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Value Statement
Bonuses
Parking lot
Control
20. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Control
Empathy
Problem-solving team
Sales projections
21. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Information receiver
Team
Self-directed teams
Evacuation
22. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Objective
Mission Statement
Collective bargaining agreement
Documentation
23. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Interfunctional team
Crisis
Shift leaders
Problem solving
24. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Organizational communication
Action plan
Self-disclosure
Contingency plan
25. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Deployment chart
Contingency plan
Problem-solving meetings
Voluntary termination
26. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Parking lot
Action plan
Problem-solving meetings
Supporting
27. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Evacuation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Collective bargaining agreement
Mediation
28. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Internal communication
Control
Action item
Self-disclosure
29. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Conflict resolution
Message
Action item
Salaries
30. 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
Action item
Performance review cycles
Management
Mission Statement
31. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Time-off request policy
Merit pay
Strategic priority
Historical sales information
32. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Problem solving
Performing
Message context
Conflict resolution
33. 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
Inclusion
Organizational goals
Compensation
Stress Management
34. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Exit interview
Alternative
Arbitration
Historical sales information
35. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Delegation
Management schedule
Cross-functional team
Ground rules
36. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Stress Management
Management
Interfunctional team
Formal communication
37. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Collective bargaining agreement
Facilitator
Performing
Informal communication
38. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Historical sales information
Problem-solving model
Directing
Control
39. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Encoding
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Environmental noise
Goal
40. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Shift leaders
Evacuation
Compensation
Networking
41. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Problem
Message context
Time Management
Conflict resolution
42. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Wage
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Time Management
Core values
43. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Compensation
Voluntary termination
Inclusion
Message channel
44. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Call/emergency meetings
Management
Motivators/Satisfiers
Measurable results
45. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Agenda
Floaters
Terminable acts
Professional Development
46. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Teamwork
Work styles
Networking
Communication
47. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Sales projections
Progressive disciplinary action
Minutes
Accountability
48. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Self-disclosure
Message channel
Preventable crisis
Delegation
49. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Performance review cycles
Terminable acts
Spin
Budget
50. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Scheduling
Master schedule
Sales projections
Action plan