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HRI Certification
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certifications
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hri
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. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Control
Networking
Bonuses
Ground rules
2. 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
Communication
Directing
Contact list
Supporting
3. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Call/emergency meetings
Unpreventable crisis
Teamwork
Self-disclosure
4. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Problem
Internal communication
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Contingency plan
5. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Management schedule
Mediation
SWOT analysis
Organizational communication
6. Statements of desired results
Action item
Goal
Favoritism
Salaries
7. Meals to be served
Covers
Exit interview
Noncontrollable costs
Scheduling
8. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Team
Inclusion
Mission Statement
Unstructured exit interview
9. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Norming
Motivation
Information meetings
Organizational goals
10. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Self-disclosure
Mentor
Environmental noise
Merit pay
11. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Root cause
Historical sales information
Interpersonal communication
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
12. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Norming
Benchmark
Root cause
Controllable costs
13. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Delegation
Unpreventable crisis
Semivariable costs
Unstructured exit interview
14. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Information receiver
Agenda
Message
Nonverbal communication
15. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Progressive disciplinary action
Salaries
Organizational goals
Action item
16. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Documentation
Sales projections
Information meetings
Meeting
17. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Message
Semivariable costs
Interfunctional team
Principles
18. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Departmental/team objectives
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Mediation
Evacuation
19. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Principles
Nepotism
Call/emergency meetings
Covers
20. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Collective bargaining agreement
Budget
Interpersonal communication
Involuntary termination
21. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Message channel
Accountability
Warm-up activity
Teamwork
22. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Negotiation
Information meetings
Organizational goals
Management
23. A potential solution to a problem
Alternative
Contact list
Encoding
Information meetings
24. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Performance review cycles
Value Statement
Information meetings
Stress Management
25. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Objective
Wage
Time-off request policy
Problem
26. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Message channel
Workplace Ethics
Internal communication
Brainstorming meetings
27. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Encoding
Evacuation
Budget
Time Management
28. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Preventable crisis
Contact list
Crew schedule
Forming
29. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Principles
SWOT analysis
Progressive disciplinary action
Management schedule
30. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Accountability
Covers
Root cause
Standard
31. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Accountability
Nepotism
Bonuses
Favoritism
32. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Teamwork
Cross-functional team
Empathy
Parking lot
33. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Historical sales information
Master schedule
Work styles
Planning
34. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Motivators/Satisfiers
Organizational communication
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Action plan
35. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Spin
Organizational communication
Information receiver
Communication
36. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Vision Statement
Arbitration
Collective bargaining agreement
Media policy
37. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Measurable results
Crisis
Forming
Decoding
38. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Inclusion
Goal
Problem solving
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
39. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Performing
Problem-solving model
Preventable crisis
Delegation
40. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Standard
Inclusion
Media policy
Standard
41. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
SWOT analysis
Alternative
Benchmark
Negotiation
42. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Information meetings
Leadership
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Terminable acts
43. The environment that a message travels through
Sales projections
Message context
Mentor
Salaries
44. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Professional Development
Standard
Action meetings
Internal communication
45. 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
Spin
Storming
Arbitration
Motivation
46. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Professional Development
Formal communication
Spin
47. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Certification
Delegation
Scheduling
48. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Information sender
Action item
Debrief meeting
Wage
49. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Self-disclosure
Information meetings
Arbitration
Work styles
50. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Self-directed teams
Networking
Action plan
Involuntary termination