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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. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Terminable acts
Motivators/Satisfiers
Performance standard
Leadership
2. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Information sender
Wage
Voluntary termination
Master schedule
3. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Problem-solving model
Compensation
Problem-solving meetings
Master schedule
4. 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
Directing
Mediation
Supporting
Message context
5. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Information receiver
Delegation
Informal communication
Supporting
6. 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
Cross-training
Message
Value Statement
Next steps
7. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Motivation
Self-disclosure
Contact list
Professional Development
8. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Inclusion
Mediation
Message
Control
9. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Interpersonal communication
Networking
Crisis
Warm-up activity
10. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Collective bargaining agreement
Noncontrollable costs
Merit pay
Management
11. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Facilitator
Stress
Communication
12. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Collective bargaining agreement
Nonverbal communication
Encoding
Payroll standards
13. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Agenda
Sales projections
Root cause
Spin
14. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Management
Contact list
Documentation
Goal
15. An official record of key points discussed or covered at a meeting - as well as anything that might have been decided or completed during the meeting
Noncontrollable costs
Workplace Ethics
Minutes
Strategic priority
16. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Progressive disciplinary action
Problem
Wage
Exit interview
17. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Collective bargaining agreement
Action plan
Directing
18. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Root cause
Nonverbal communication
Accountability
Employee absence policy
19. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Brainstorming meetings
Problem-solving team
Problem-solving meetings
Progressive disciplinary action
20. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Cross-training
Master schedule
Self-disclosure
Delegation
21. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Communication
Salaries
Deployment chart
Professionalism
22. The person for whom the communication is intended
Management schedule
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Mission Statement
Information receiver
23. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Inclusion
Call/emergency meetings
Environmental noise
Problem
24. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Sales projections
Information sender
Forming
Structured exit interview
25. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Floaters
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Informal communication
Objective
26. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Departmental/team objectives
Interpersonal communication
Meeting
Message
27. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Warm-up activity
Mission Statement
Evacuation
Shift leaders
28. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Objective
Delegation
Merit pay
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
29. 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
Progressive disciplinary action
Professionalism
Noncontrollable costs
30. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Next steps
Structured exit interview
Brainstorming meetings
Problem
31. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Covers
Storming
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Conflict resolution
32. Meetings that share communication
Favoritism
Management schedule
Leadership
Information meetings
33. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Action meetings
Message context
Historical sales information
Benchmark
34. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Decoding
Listening
Employee absence policy
Principles
35. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Agenda
Organizational goals
Nonverbal communication
Standard
36. 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
Team
Standard
Involuntary termination
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
37. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Call/emergency meetings
Organizational goals
Certification
Principles
38. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Call/emergency meetings
Problem-solving team
Preventable crisis
Unpreventable crisis
39. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Affection
Benchmark
Delegation
Environmental noise
40. Differs from other forms of communication in that there are usually only a few participants involved (often just two people) - the individuals are in close proximity to each other as shown - and the feedback is immediate
Interpersonal communication
Employee absence policy
Meeting
Ground rules
41. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Problem-solving team
Self-disclosure
Minutes
42. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Stress
Directing
Standard
Action plan
43. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem-solving model
Compensation
Action meetings
Problem-solving team
44. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Time-off request policy
Collective bargaining agreement
Inclusion
Commissions
45. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Information meetings
Performing
Value Statement
Standard
46. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Message channel
Professionalism
Parking lot
Unstructured exit interview
47. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Arbitration
Budget
Individual performance of objectives
Problem-solving meetings
48. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Cross-training
Action meetings
Problem solving
Payroll standards
49. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Action meetings
Sexual harassment
Facilitator
Measurable results
50. Costs that management can control
Documentation
Controllable costs
Employee absence policy
Budget