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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. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Listening
Organizational communication
Interpersonal communication
SWOT analysis
2. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Favoritism
Wage
Sexual harassment
Individual performance of objectives
3. Meetings that are scheduled on a regular basis between the employee and employer to discuss the employee's job performance and additional pay - if any - for the coming year
Networking
Certification
Accountability
Performance review cycles
4. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Payroll standards
Certification
Information sender
Professionalism
5. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Cross-training
Professional Development
Facilitator
Value Statement
6. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Time Management
Action plan
Favoritism
Storming
7. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
SWOT analysis
Action meetings
Message channel
Wage
8. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Time-off request policy
Forming
Crew schedule
Professional Development
9. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Evacuation
Certification
Professionalism
Brainstorming meetings
10. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Evacuation
Unpreventable crisis
Payroll standards
Self-directed teams
11. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Strategic priority
Media policy
Delegation
Budget
12. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Management
Favoritism
Sexual harassment
Problem-solving meetings
13. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Measurable results
Control
Interpersonal communication
14. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Norming
Departmental/team objectives
Strategic priority
Contingency plan
15. 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
Norming
Value Statement
Master schedule
Minutes
16. The person for whom the communication is intended
Measurable results
Planning
Action item
Information receiver
17. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Favoritism
Control
Structured exit interview
Preventable crisis
18. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Next steps
Message context
Brainstorming
Objective
19. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Affection
Self-disclosure
Progressive disciplinary action
Root cause
20. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Work styles
Brainstorming
Problem-solving model
Historical sales information
21. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Information receiver
Team
Delegation
Progressive disciplinary action
22. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Action item
Brainstorming meetings
Historical sales information
Team
23. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Spin
Problem-solving meetings
Encoding
Motivation
24. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Scheduling
SWOT analysis
Crew schedule
Standard
25. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Mission Statement
Departmental/team objectives
Standard
Self-directed teams
26. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Payroll standards
Message
Self-disclosure
Debrief meeting
27. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Call/emergency meetings
Collective bargaining agreement
Terminable acts
Directing
28. Meetings that share communication
Minutes
Standard
Information meetings
Merit pay
29. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Payroll standards
Delegation
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Standard
30. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Action plan
Collective bargaining agreement
Informal communication
Control
31. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Documentation
Message
Facilitator
Organizational goals
32. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Unpreventable crisis
Time Management
Facilitator
Contact list
33. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Information sender
Facilitator
Involuntary termination
Measurable results
34. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Management
Deployment chart
Personal treatment
Directing
35. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Mediation
Workplace Ethics
Merit pay
Shift leaders
36. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Information meetings
Brainstorming
Decoding
Voluntary termination
37. 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
Directing
Time Management
Structured exit interview
Supporting
38. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Next steps
Crisis
Problem-solving meetings
Team
39. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Informal communication
Collective bargaining agreement
Preventable crisis
Performance standard
40. Costs that management can control
Nepotism
Action item
Controllable costs
Message context
41. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Terminable acts
Employee absence policy
Delegation
Preventable crisis
42. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Organizational goals
Norming
Mentor
Crisis
43. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Sexual harassment
Terminable acts
Principles
44. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Action item
Empathy
Historical sales information
Exit interview
45. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Formal communication
Debrief meeting
Motivators/Satisfiers
Deployment chart
46. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Favoritism
Contact list
Voluntary termination
Objective
47. The environment that a message travels through
Environmental noise
Accountability
Message context
Vision Statement
48. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Negotiation
Delegation
Agenda
Formal communication
49. Those costs that have both a fixed and variable element - such that one part will not change as sales volume changes - whereas the other part will change
Semivariable costs
Departmental/team objectives
Stress Management
Warm-up activity
50. A potential solution to a problem
Time-off request policy
Alternative
Teamwork
Work styles