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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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1. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Message
Deployment chart
Organizational communication
Minutes
2. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Unpreventable crisis
Management schedule
Supporting
Unstructured exit interview
3. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Scheduling
Control
Time-off request policy
Unpreventable crisis
4. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Management schedule
Certification
Wage
Involuntary termination
5. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Goal
Problem-solving meetings
Value Statement
Directing
6. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Formal communication
Workplace Ethics
Voluntary termination
Exit interview
7. An official record of key points discussed or covered at a meeting - as well as anything that might have been decided or completed during the meeting
Terminable acts
Accountability
Voluntary termination
Minutes
8. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Empathy
Compensation
Master schedule
Stress Management
9. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Informal communication
Brainstorming
Cross-functional team
Warm-up activity
10. 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
Listening
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Performance review cycles
Motivation
11. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Interpersonal communication
Nepotism
Noncontrollable costs
Terminable acts
12. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Information meetings
Message
Personal treatment
Voluntary termination
13. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Performance standard
Floaters
Media policy
Next steps
14. 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
Management
Structured exit interview
Internal communication
Storming
15. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Planning
Message channel
Wage
Time Management
16. A conversation without prepared questions
Problem
Unstructured exit interview
Strategic priority
Management schedule
17. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Empathy
Master schedule
Informal communication
Salaries
18. Costs that management cannot control
Noncontrollable costs
Individual performance of objectives
Progressive disciplinary action
Delegation
19. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Performing
Historical sales information
Crisis
Favoritism
20. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Listening
Action plan
Contact list
Personal treatment
21. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Standard
Accountability
Wage
Goal
22. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Individual performance of objectives
Supporting
Time-off request policy
Professional Development
23. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Time-off request policy
Salaries
Directing
Storming
24. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Ground rules
Encoding
Collective bargaining agreement
Contingency plan
25. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Organizational goals
Preventable crisis
Arbitration
Management schedule
26. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Planning
Norming
Problem solving
Self-disclosure
27. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Management schedule
Interpersonal communication
Problem-solving team
Arbitration
28. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Alternative
Covers
Goal
29. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Contingency plan
Principles
Unpreventable crisis
Cross-training
30. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Delegation
Decoding
Noncontrollable costs
Historical sales information
31. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Crisis
Listening
Performing
Arbitration
32. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Evacuation
SWOT analysis
Scheduling
Payroll standards
33. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Informal communication
Objective
Information meetings
Next steps
34. Meals to be served
Covers
Minutes
Collective bargaining agreement
Control
35. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Problem-solving meetings
Ground rules
Environmental noise
Noncontrollable costs
36. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Standard
Inclusion
Motivation
Cross-training
37. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Agenda
Debrief meeting
Wage
Contingency plan
38. Meetings that share communication
Preventable crisis
Nonverbal communication
Core values
Information meetings
39. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Team
Minutes
Vision Statement
Arbitration
40. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Forming
Historical sales information
Information sender
Value Statement
41. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Minutes
Scheduling
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Decoding
42. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Crisis
Performing
Empathy
Organizational goals
43. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Warm-up activity
Measurable results
Mediation
Information sender
44. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Mentor
Commissions
Team
Agenda
45. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
SWOT analysis
Accountability
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Scheduling
46. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Action plan
Control
Exit interview
Mediation
47. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Message context
Planning
Self-directed teams
Salaries
48. A potential solution to a problem
Bonuses
Alternative
Noncontrollable costs
Cross-training
49. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Encoding
Interfunctional team
Salaries
Directing
50. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Performing
Storming
Benchmark