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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. 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
Time-off request policy
Exit interview
Certification
Motivation
2. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Decoding
Management
Floaters
Semivariable costs
3. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Networking
Self-disclosure
Performance review cycles
4. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Principles
Interfunctional team
Affection
Message channel
5. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Payroll standards
Favoritism
Problem-solving team
Contingency plan
6. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Value Statement
Involuntary termination
Merit pay
Collective bargaining agreement
7. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Stress Management
Encoding
Problem-solving team
Professional Development
8. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Information sender
SWOT analysis
Payroll standards
Directing
9. 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
Team
Nepotism
Directing
Organizational goals
10. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Compensation
Covers
Personal treatment
Voluntary termination
11. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Payroll standards
Value Statement
Action plan
Cross-training
12. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Work styles
Team
Self-directed teams
Informal communication
13. Identifying what tasks - actions - and other events need to happen as a result of the meeting - as well as setting a date and time for the next meeting
Next steps
Deployment chart
Performance standard
Ground rules
14. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Evacuation
Control
Nonverbal communication
Standard
15. 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
Action meetings
Negotiation
Teamwork
16. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Directing
Value Statement
Supporting
Motivators/Satisfiers
17. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Unstructured exit interview
Floaters
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Contact list
18. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Controllable costs
Crisis
Contingency plan
Decoding
19. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Information meetings
Cross-functional team
Storming
Strategic priority
20. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Commissions
Shift leaders
Cross-training
Information meetings
21. 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
Negotiation
Performance review cycles
Evacuation
Involuntary termination
22. 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
Crisis
Management
Mediation
Next steps
23. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Professionalism
Nepotism
Contact list
Professional Development
24. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Root cause
Payroll standards
Vision Statement
Motivators/Satisfiers
25. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Payroll standards
Standard
Action meetings
26. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Deployment chart
Crisis
Floaters
Measurable results
27. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Standard
Sales projections
Message context
Listening
28. Costs that management cannot control
Problem-solving meetings
Negotiation
Crew schedule
Noncontrollable costs
29. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Action item
Brainstorming meetings
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Problem-solving team
30. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Stress
Professionalism
Ground rules
31. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Structured exit interview
Norming
Minutes
Inclusion
32. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Employee absence policy
Planning
Control
Organizational communication
33. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Information sender
Teamwork
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Directing
34. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Deployment chart
Benchmark
Information receiver
Preventable crisis
35. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Agenda
Individual performance of objectives
Motivators/Satisfiers
Departmental/team objectives
36. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Bonuses
Debrief meeting
Measurable results
Involuntary termination
37. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Salaries
Formal communication
Leadership
Individual performance of objectives
38. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Standard
Commissions
Agenda
Unstructured exit interview
39. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Scheduling
Personal treatment
Cross-training
Alternative
40. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Motivation
Historical sales information
Preventable crisis
Directing
41. 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
Information sender
Semivariable costs
Terminable acts
Meeting
42. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Shift leaders
Conflict resolution
Contact list
Crew schedule
43. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Information receiver
Accountability
Progressive disciplinary action
Message channel
44. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Root cause
Professionalism
Ground rules
Parking lot
45. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Root cause
Documentation
Information meetings
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
46. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Parking lot
Informal communication
Core values
Media policy
47. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Parking lot
Salaries
Involuntary termination
Motivators/Satisfiers
48. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Value Statement
Nepotism
Organizational communication
Affection
49. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Employee absence policy
Message
Wage
SWOT analysis
50. Govern unemployment compensation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Internal communication
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Sexual harassment