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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Deployment chart
Facilitator
Debrief meeting
Terminable acts
2. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Problem-solving team
Organizational goals
Team
Negotiation
3. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Compensation
Message channel
Norming
Problem-solving meetings
4. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Mission Statement
Contact list
Certification
Self-disclosure
5. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Leadership
Preventable crisis
Delegation
Floaters
6. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Organizational communication
Evacuation
Bonuses
Time-off request policy
7. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Objective
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Root cause
Norming
8. 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
Accountability
Next steps
Payroll standards
Time-off request policy
9. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Problem
Noncontrollable costs
Planning
Objective
10. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Time Management
Information meetings
Contingency plan
Organizational goals
11. Indicates that you have demonstrated a high level of skill and have met specific performance requirements by participating in a rigorous process to become certified
Master schedule
Stress Management
Certification
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
12. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Self-directed teams
Nonverbal communication
Norming
Problem
13. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Teamwork
Debrief meeting
Information sender
Cross-training
14. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Unpreventable crisis
Vision Statement
Action plan
Internal communication
15. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem-solving model
Teamwork
Root cause
Interfunctional team
16. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Departmental/team objectives
Action plan
Action item
Norming
17. The person for whom the communication is intended
Terminable acts
Information meetings
Information receiver
Storming
18. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Certification
Accountability
Commissions
Work styles
19. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Vision Statement
Crisis
Performing
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
20. A conversation without prepared questions
Unstructured exit interview
Crew schedule
Bonuses
Problem-solving meetings
21. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Principles
Control
Contingency plan
Master schedule
22. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Networking
Mission Statement
Standard
Interpersonal communication
23. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Problem
Merit pay
Scheduling
Mission Statement
24. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Internal communication
Formal communication
Action item
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
25. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Floaters
Sales projections
Individual performance of objectives
26. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Message
Listening
Evacuation
Management
27. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Self-directed teams
Environmental noise
Vision Statement
Information meetings
28. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Departmental/team objectives
Negotiation
Control
Message
29. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Voluntary termination
Communication
Accountability
Strategic priority
30. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Ground rules
Covers
Call/emergency meetings
31. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Bonuses
Floaters
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Management schedule
32. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Standard
Supporting
Contingency plan
Payroll standards
33. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Teamwork
Root cause
Value Statement
Progressive disciplinary action
34. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Networking
Standard
Nonverbal communication
Budget
35. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Individual performance of objectives
Historical sales information
Performing
Action plan
36. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Action meetings
Warm-up activity
Management
Contingency plan
37. 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
Stress Management
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Budget
Value Statement
38. 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
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Directing
Core values
Environmental noise
39. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Media policy
Principles
Crisis
Certification
40. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Networking
Merit pay
Self-disclosure
Interfunctional team
41. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Mediation
Action plan
Facilitator
Spin
42. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Time-off request policy
Internal communication
Structured exit interview
Semivariable costs
43. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Networking
Next steps
Motivators/Satisfiers
44. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Time Management
Cross-training
Favoritism
Crisis
45. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Leadership
Unstructured exit interview
Parking lot
Inclusion
46. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Empathy
Self-directed teams
Workplace Ethics
Mediation
47. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Budget
Delegation
Preventable crisis
Motivation
48. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Crew schedule
Action plan
Floaters
Cross-functional team
49. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Media policy
Wage
Sales projections
Performance standard
50. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Goal
Historical sales information
Message
Negotiation