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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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. Developing the message to be sent
Brainstorming meetings
Encoding
Next steps
Standard
2. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Sexual harassment
Delegation
Parking lot
Crew schedule
3. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Crisis
Inclusion
Cross-functional team
Leadership
4. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Action item
Root cause
Unpreventable crisis
Crisis
5. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Problem-solving model
Personal treatment
Performance review cycles
Mediation
6. 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
Self-disclosure
Employee absence policy
Benchmark
7. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Crew schedule
Action plan
Motivators/Satisfiers
Cross-training
8. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Action meetings
Value Statement
Delegation
Conflict resolution
9. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Forming
Problem-solving meetings
Problem solving
Facilitator
10. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Parking lot
Informal communication
Negotiation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
11. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Value Statement
Unstructured exit interview
Norming
Individual performance of objectives
12. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Message channel
Norming
Controllable costs
Benchmark
13. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Collective bargaining agreement
Workplace Ethics
Salaries
Delegation
14. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Problem
Nonverbal communication
Salaries
Self-directed teams
15. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Core values
Management schedule
Next steps
Call/emergency meetings
16. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Root cause
Documentation
Scheduling
Debrief meeting
17. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Self-disclosure
Management
Deployment chart
Performing
18. 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
Workplace Ethics
Information meetings
Facilitator
Certification
19. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Action meetings
Evacuation
Floaters
Progressive disciplinary action
20. Differs from other forms of communication in that there are usually only a few participants involved (often just two people) - the individuals are in close proximity to each other as shown - and the feedback is immediate
Favoritism
Cross-functional team
Interpersonal communication
Information meetings
21. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Norming
Vision Statement
Ground rules
22. 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
Time-off request policy
Parking lot
Directing
Sexual harassment
23. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Formal communication
Mission Statement
Decoding
Nonverbal communication
24. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Stress Management
Message
Wage
Cross-functional team
25. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Interpersonal communication
Goal
Stress
Merit pay
26. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Terminable acts
Formal communication
Departmental/team objectives
Progressive disciplinary action
27. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
SWOT analysis
Merit pay
Directing
Debrief meeting
28. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Historical sales information
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Bonuses
Organizational goals
29. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Contingency plan
Strategic priority
Call/emergency meetings
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
30. 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
Performance review cycles
Time Management
Core values
Formal communication
31. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Covers
Facilitator
Arbitration
Spin
32. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Shift leaders
Information receiver
Exit interview
Empathy
33. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Stress Management
Shift leaders
Stress
Information sender
34. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Performance standard
Nonverbal communication
Negotiation
Covers
35. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Objective
Message channel
Cross-training
Work styles
36. 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
Standard
Information receiver
Self-directed teams
37. 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
Involuntary termination
Brainstorming meetings
Floaters
Parking lot
38. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Delegation
Professional Development
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Employee absence policy
39. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Problem
Problem solving
Workplace Ethics
Organizational communication
40. The environment that a message travels through
Salaries
Message context
Media policy
Call/emergency meetings
41. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Problem-solving team
Progressive disciplinary action
Involuntary termination
Delegation
42. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Documentation
Evacuation
Warm-up activity
Minutes
43. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Workplace Ethics
Internal communication
Voluntary termination
Storming
44. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Empathy
Sexual harassment
Favoritism
Certification
45. Meals to be served
Professionalism
Covers
Floaters
Exit interview
46. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Team
Structured exit interview
Sexual harassment
Media policy
47. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Internal communication
Minutes
Mentor
48. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Debrief meeting
Historical sales information
Information sender
Commissions
49. 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
Brainstorming
Cross-functional team
Debrief meeting
50. A potential solution to a problem
Action plan
Exit interview
Internal communication
Alternative