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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Communication
Favoritism
Structured exit interview
Unstructured exit interview
2. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Problem solving
Standard
Arbitration
Unstructured exit interview
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
Strategic priority
Debrief meeting
Performance review cycles
Minutes
4. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Budget
Listening
Self-directed teams
Teamwork
5. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Time-off request policy
Crisis
SWOT analysis
Message channel
6. Costs that management can control
Nonverbal communication
Mediation
Controllable costs
Problem
7. 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
Accountability
Interpersonal communication
Management
Unpreventable crisis
8. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Networking
Action item
Unpreventable crisis
Planning
9. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Scheduling
Core values
Work styles
Information receiver
10. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Agenda
Problem-solving team
Strategic priority
Action meetings
11. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Ground rules
Objective
Environmental noise
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
12. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Departmental/team objectives
Teamwork
Evacuation
Core values
13. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Stress Management
Preventable crisis
Delegation
SWOT analysis
14. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Supporting
Delegation
Workplace Ethics
Listening
15. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Performing
Standard
Leadership
Information meetings
16. 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
Principles
Measurable results
Motivators/Satisfiers
Next steps
17. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Facilitator
Mentor
Commissions
Work styles
18. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Alternative
Message channel
Cross-functional team
Information sender
19. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Accountability
Delegation
Evacuation
Management schedule
20. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Call/emergency meetings
Leadership
Message context
Cross-functional team
21. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Performing
Documentation
Certification
Unpreventable crisis
22. 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)
Stress
Employee absence policy
Sexual harassment
23. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Action plan
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Bonuses
Motivators/Satisfiers
24. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Internal communication
Vision Statement
Meeting
Performance standard
25. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Personal treatment
Measurable results
Team
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
26. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Performance standard
Message channel
Empathy
27. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Payroll standards
Problem-solving team
Documentation
Time Management
28. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Individual performance of objectives
Message
Commissions
Professional Development
29. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Empathy
Wage
Problem solving
Contingency plan
30. 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
Interfunctional team
Root cause
Sexual harassment
31. 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
Certification
Facilitator
Stress
Professionalism
32. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Terminable acts
Control
Agenda
Media policy
33. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Encoding
Planning
Information receiver
Exit interview
34. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Control
Mediation
Interpersonal communication
Mission Statement
35. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Problem solving
Debrief meeting
Negotiation
Environmental noise
36. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Favoritism
Salaries
Collective bargaining agreement
Root cause
37. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Performance review cycles
Problem solving
Time Management
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
38. 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
Evacuation
Sales projections
Salaries
39. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Master schedule
Compensation
Self-directed teams
Time-off request policy
40. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Bonuses
Problem-solving team
Planning
Terminable acts
41. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Communication
Crew schedule
Cross-training
Shift leaders
42. Costs that management cannot control
Time Management
Message context
Noncontrollable costs
Sexual harassment
43. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Directing
Planning
Media policy
Mission Statement
44. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Information receiver
Vision Statement
Root cause
Principles
45. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Budget
Evacuation
Objective
Problem-solving meetings
46. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Crisis
Controllable costs
Vision Statement
Message context
47. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Environmental noise
Next steps
Problem-solving meetings
Empathy
48. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Evacuation
Problem-solving meetings
Bonuses
Control
49. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Spin
Information meetings
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Documentation
50. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Problem-solving team
Interfunctional team
Work styles
Employee absence policy