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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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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. 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
Bonuses
Documentation
Delegation
Involuntary termination
2. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Spin
Time-off request policy
Agenda
Meeting
3. 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
Brainstorming meetings
Favoritism
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
4. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Favoritism
Stress Management
Contact list
Empathy
5. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Norming
Covers
Nonverbal communication
Bonuses
6. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Call/emergency meetings
Master schedule
Information meetings
Negotiation
7. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Problem-solving team
Employee absence policy
Contingency plan
Stress Management
8. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Media policy
Interfunctional team
Collective bargaining agreement
Message
9. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Performing
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Agenda
Minutes
10. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Organizational communication
Principles
Self-directed teams
Organizational goals
11. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Environmental noise
Agenda
Unstructured exit interview
Information receiver
12. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Root cause
Storming
Standard
Nepotism
13. 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
Listening
Arbitration
Team
14. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Payroll standards
Stress
Organizational communication
Crew schedule
15. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Controllable costs
Crisis
Norming
Action meetings
16. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Merit pay
Unpreventable crisis
Supporting
Problem-solving meetings
17. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Affection
Information sender
Scheduling
Stress
18. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Delegation
Budget
Professional Development
Decoding
19. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Parking lot
Mentor
Time-off request policy
Motivation
20. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Unstructured exit interview
Accountability
Workplace Ethics
Structured exit interview
21. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Arbitration
Vision Statement
Forming
Terminable acts
22. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Progressive disciplinary action
Stress Management
Departmental/team objectives
Delegation
23. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Problem-solving meetings
Control
Media policy
Interfunctional team
24. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Leadership
Workplace Ethics
Salaries
Wage
25. Statements of desired results
Goal
Nepotism
Problem
Spin
26. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Standard
Measurable results
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Cross-training
27. 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
Action meetings
Unstructured exit interview
Action item
Core values
28. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Organizational communication
Work styles
Forming
Favoritism
29. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Noncontrollable costs
Spin
Terminable acts
Contact list
30. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Decoding
Debrief meeting
Internal communication
Documentation
31. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Organizational communication
Sales projections
Deployment chart
Empathy
32. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Informal communication
Storming
Favoritism
Formal communication
33. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Contingency plan
Conflict resolution
Communication
Principles
34. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Crew schedule
Communication
Cross-functional team
Sexual harassment
35. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Message
Standard
Decoding
Floaters
36. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Directing
Work styles
Planning
Cross-functional team
37. 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
Brainstorming
Negotiation
Environmental noise
Management
38. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Scheduling
Unpreventable crisis
Contact list
Minutes
39. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Salaries
Planning
Organizational goals
Professional Development
40. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Communication
Alternative
Call/emergency meetings
Unpreventable crisis
41. Costs that management cannot control
Contingency plan
Organizational communication
Noncontrollable costs
Semivariable costs
42. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Documentation
Media policy
Covers
Unstructured exit interview
43. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Mediation
Certification
Brainstorming meetings
Problem solving
44. Costs that management can control
Management
Documentation
Scheduling
Controllable costs
45. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Problem-solving model
Arbitration
Ground rules
Standard
46. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Action plan
Benchmark
Delegation
Accountability
47. The environment that a message travels through
Structured exit interview
Meeting
Vision Statement
Message context
48. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Cross-functional team
Professional Development
Affection
Planning
49. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Facilitator
Historical sales information
Brainstorming
Time-off request policy
50. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Departmental/team objectives
Call/emergency meetings
Brainstorming
Nonverbal communication