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HRI Certification
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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. 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
Motivation
Involuntary termination
Interpersonal communication
Formal communication
2. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Ground rules
Cross-training
Debrief meeting
Listening
3. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Salaries
Next steps
Scheduling
Spin
4. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Compensation
Vision Statement
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Mediation
5. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Call/emergency meetings
Brainstorming meetings
Media policy
Collective bargaining agreement
6. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Self-directed teams
Delegation
Core values
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
7. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Problem
Information meetings
Performing
Professionalism
8. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Ground rules
Individual performance of objectives
Norming
Meeting
9. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Work styles
Listening
Salaries
Crew schedule
10. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Parking lot
Payroll standards
Brainstorming
11. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Facilitator
Communication
Accountability
Self-directed teams
12. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Planning
Minutes
Self-disclosure
Compensation
13. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Problem-solving team
Mission Statement
Root cause
Information receiver
14. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Management schedule
Mentor
Stress
15. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Payroll standards
Mentor
Merit pay
Motivation
16. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Principles
Control
Sexual harassment
Empathy
17. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Planning
Information sender
Accountability
Interfunctional team
18. The environment that a message travels through
Performance review cycles
Inclusion
Crew schedule
Message context
19. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Norming
Supporting
Contingency plan
Facilitator
20. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Storming
Stress
Deployment chart
Core values
21. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Standard
Forming
Commissions
Stress Management
22. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Sales projections
Measurable results
SWOT analysis
Delegation
23. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Time-off request policy
Contingency plan
Measurable results
Decoding
24. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Next steps
Organizational communication
Debrief meeting
Covers
25. Statements of desired results
Goal
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Evacuation
Environmental noise
26. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Deployment chart
Certification
Problem-solving team
Teamwork
27. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Benchmark
Structured exit interview
Leadership
28. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Action plan
Master schedule
Informal communication
Collective bargaining agreement
29. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Scheduling
Contingency plan
Bonuses
Teamwork
30. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Conflict resolution
Encoding
Nonverbal communication
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
31. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Compensation
Message context
Agenda
Action plan
32. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Involuntary termination
Action item
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Controllable costs
33. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Problem-solving model
Mediation
Noncontrollable costs
Cross-functional team
34. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Employee absence policy
Historical sales information
Performance standard
Brainstorming
35. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Work styles
Sales projections
Problem-solving meetings
Problem
36. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Time Management
Control
Forming
Brainstorming meetings
37. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Merit pay
Next steps
Formal communication
Terminable acts
38. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Organizational communication
Informal communication
Information sender
Leadership
39. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Problem-solving model
Norming
Message context
Leadership
40. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Principles
Favoritism
Listening
Self-directed teams
41. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Inclusion
Scheduling
Exit interview
Individual performance of objectives
42. Costs that management can control
Call/emergency meetings
Controllable costs
Accountability
Leadership
43. A company's key elements of operation - and they serve as the foundation for the development of both the vision statement and the mission statement
Core values
Motivation
Sales projections
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
44. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
SWOT analysis
Standard
Controllable costs
Informal communication
45. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Management
Progressive disciplinary action
Scheduling
Delegation
46. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Brainstorming meetings
Mediation
Merit pay
Crisis
47. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Leadership
Affection
Structured exit interview
48. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Wage
Salaries
Teamwork
Objective
49. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Contingency plan
Brainstorming
Conflict resolution
Media policy
50. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Standard
Progressive disciplinary action
Vision Statement
Affection