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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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1. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Root cause
Payroll standards
Controllable costs
Problem-solving team
2. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Facilitator
Inclusion
Motivation
Spin
3. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Storming
Information meetings
Delegation
Nonverbal communication
4. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Action plan
Conflict resolution
Warm-up activity
Wage
5. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Performance standard
Crisis
Cross-training
Professionalism
6. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Standard
Compensation
Master schedule
Root cause
7. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Brainstorming meetings
Strategic priority
Forming
Benchmark
8. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Professionalism
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Performing
Noncontrollable costs
9. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Problem solving
Accountability
Unpreventable crisis
Controllable costs
10. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Nonverbal communication
Goal
Message channel
Payroll standards
11. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Team
Stress
Parking lot
Encoding
12. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Certification
Control
Self-directed teams
Mission Statement
13. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Delegation
Decoding
Stress Management
14. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Standard
Networking
Message context
Principles
15. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Terminable acts
Information meetings
Professionalism
Salaries
16. 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
Crew schedule
Performance standard
Management
Message channel
17. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Information sender
Commissions
Listening
Empathy
18. 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
Motivation
Stress
Directing
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
19. 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
Personal treatment
Departmental/team objectives
Supporting
20. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Message
Affection
Scheduling
Self-directed teams
21. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Forming
Negotiation
Warm-up activity
Value Statement
22. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Networking
Work styles
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Affection
23. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Collective bargaining agreement
Planning
Merit pay
Leadership
24. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Compensation
Benchmark
Vision Statement
Core values
25. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Time Management
Structured exit interview
Principles
Progressive disciplinary action
26. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Cross-training
Sales projections
Root cause
Self-directed teams
27. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Problem-solving model
Floaters
Departmental/team objectives
Performance review cycles
28. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Master schedule
Management
Preventable crisis
Performing
29. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Preventable crisis
Delegation
Encoding
Self-disclosure
30. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Forming
Organizational communication
Interfunctional team
Benchmark
31. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Ground rules
Management schedule
Cross-training
Time Management
32. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Arbitration
Preventable crisis
Planning
Professionalism
33. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Bonuses
Minutes
Debrief meeting
Commissions
34. A potential solution to a problem
Mentor
Alternative
Unpreventable crisis
Message channel
35. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Cross-functional team
Wage
Debrief meeting
Structured exit interview
36. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Self-directed teams
Contact list
SWOT analysis
Master schedule
37. The person for whom the communication is intended
Individual performance of objectives
Scheduling
Empathy
Information receiver
38. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Decoding
Merit pay
Benchmark
Work styles
39. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Vision Statement
Root cause
Organizational goals
Value Statement
40. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Employee absence policy
Minutes
Message
Agenda
41. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Performance review cycles
Measurable results
Brainstorming
42. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Organizational communication
Goal
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Performance standard
43. Meetings that share communication
Message context
Unstructured exit interview
Communication
Information meetings
44. 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
Floaters
Core values
Supporting
Action meetings
45. Statements of desired results
Management schedule
Professionalism
Performance standard
Goal
46. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Nepotism
Negotiation
Organizational communication
Action meetings
47. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Involuntary termination
Message channel
Action plan
Time-off request policy
48. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Interpersonal communication
Team
Brainstorming meetings
Leadership
49. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Work styles
Message context
Departmental/team objectives
Documentation
50. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Debrief meeting
Noncontrollable costs
Directing
Collective bargaining agreement