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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 situation in which management must terminate an employee for one of four reasons - including lack of work for the individual - lack of funding - unsatisfactory performance - or violating a company policy
Benchmark
Crew schedule
Involuntary termination
Problem
2. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Performing
Professionalism
Deployment chart
Message channel
3. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Evacuation
Meeting
Measurable results
Nonverbal communication
4. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Commissions
Debrief meeting
Involuntary termination
5. Statements of desired results
Involuntary termination
Goal
Delegation
Delegation
6. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Goal
Exit interview
Stress Management
Environmental noise
7. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Management schedule
Forming
SWOT analysis
8. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Budget
Objective
Crisis
Voluntary termination
9. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Parking lot
Supporting
Interpersonal communication
Mentor
10. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Agenda
Voluntary termination
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Self-disclosure
11. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Internal communication
Message
Directing
12. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Next steps
Affection
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Arbitration
13. Meetings that share communication
Brainstorming meetings
Information meetings
Interfunctional team
Environmental noise
14. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Favoritism
Individual performance of objectives
Standard
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
15. Meals to be served
Negotiation
Covers
Informal communication
Involuntary termination
16. Developing the message to be sent
Strategic priority
Delegation
Sexual harassment
Encoding
17. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Formal communication
Terminable acts
Salaries
18. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Alternative
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Individual performance of objectives
Objective
19. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Vision Statement
Work styles
Principles
Master schedule
20. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Decoding
Problem-solving team
Message context
Directing
21. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Cross-training
Measurable results
Payroll standards
Environmental noise
22. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Performance review cycles
Cross-functional team
Workplace Ethics
Crisis
23. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Compensation
Sexual harassment
Structured exit interview
Interpersonal communication
24. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Parking lot
Planning
Vision Statement
Meeting
25. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Debrief meeting
Informal communication
Historical sales information
Strategic priority
26. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Communication
Controllable costs
Evacuation
Scheduling
27. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Control
Problem solving
Personal treatment
Standard
28. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Listening
Inclusion
Organizational goals
29. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Facilitator
Conflict resolution
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Semivariable costs
30. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Action item
Evacuation
Noncontrollable costs
Mediation
31. 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
Encoding
Evacuation
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Stress Management
32. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Accountability
Sexual harassment
Self-directed teams
Teamwork
33. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Individual performance of objectives
Delegation
Parking lot
Performance standard
34. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Problem solving
SWOT analysis
Decoding
Action plan
35. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Planning
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Performance review cycles
36. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Control
Contingency plan
Networking
Action meetings
37. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Problem solving
Stress
Cross-functional team
Listening
38. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Action meetings
Individual performance of objectives
Departmental/team objectives
39. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Motivation
Performing
Nonverbal communication
Involuntary termination
40. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Interpersonal communication
Problem
Noncontrollable costs
Value Statement
41. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Controllable costs
Sexual harassment
Message channel
Goal
42. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Norming
Departmental/team objectives
Information meetings
Objective
43. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Unpreventable crisis
Voluntary termination
Delegation
Employee absence policy
44. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Brainstorming meetings
Unpreventable crisis
Objective
Decoding
45. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Exit interview
Principles
Problem-solving model
46. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Structured exit interview
Problem-solving meetings
Facilitator
Agenda
47. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Listening
Communication
Professionalism
Alternative
48. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Action meetings
Organizational goals
Vision Statement
Directing
49. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Documentation
Encoding
Accountability
Contact list
50. Costs that management cannot control
Core values
SWOT analysis
Interfunctional team
Noncontrollable costs