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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 many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Accountability
Nonverbal communication
Message context
Goal
2. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Work styles
Root cause
Accountability
Forming
3. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Crew schedule
Problem solving
Deployment chart
Delegation
4. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Bonuses
Voluntary termination
Team
5. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Wage
Networking
Motivation
Voluntary termination
6. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Storming
Cross-training
Personal treatment
Parking lot
7. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Exit interview
Collective bargaining agreement
Professional Development
Agenda
8. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Progressive disciplinary action
Master schedule
Organizational goals
Contingency plan
9. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Progressive disciplinary action
Brainstorming
Bonuses
Planning
10. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Mission Statement
Performing
Departmental/team objectives
Negotiation
11. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Professional Development
Next steps
Deployment chart
Action item
12. The environment that a message travels through
Message context
Performing
Arbitration
Encoding
13. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Favoritism
Salaries
Ground rules
Shift leaders
14. 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
Personal treatment
Call/emergency meetings
Interpersonal communication
Preventable crisis
15. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Organizational goals
Problem solving
Action item
Interfunctional team
16. A potential solution to a problem
Contact list
Parking lot
Information receiver
Alternative
17. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Problem-solving team
Crisis
Decoding
Parking lot
18. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Organizational goals
Principles
Brainstorming
Personal treatment
19. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Motivators/Satisfiers
Environmental noise
Unstructured exit interview
Budget
20. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Informal communication
Facilitator
Agenda
21. 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
Interfunctional team
Stress Management
Management schedule
Spin
22. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Deployment chart
Scheduling
Inclusion
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
23. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Information receiver
Time Management
Merit pay
Commissions
24. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Performance review cycles
Cross-functional team
Formal communication
Message channel
25. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Work styles
SWOT analysis
Employee absence policy
Spin
26. 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
Problem
Strategic priority
Unpreventable crisis
27. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Mentor
Time-off request policy
Ground rules
Collective bargaining agreement
28. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Structured exit interview
Stress
Crisis
Organizational goals
29. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Cross-training
Teamwork
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Sexual harassment
30. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Benchmark
Norming
Crisis
Alternative
31. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Action meetings
Performance standard
Brainstorming meetings
Historical sales information
32. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Delegation
Merit pay
Problem-solving model
Contingency plan
33. Statements of desired results
Goal
Message context
Agenda
Time Management
34. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Performing
Nepotism
Call/emergency meetings
Formal communication
35. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Warm-up activity
Voluntary termination
Message channel
Time Management
36. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Spin
Inclusion
Problem-solving team
Sexual harassment
37. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Progressive disciplinary action
Alternative
Contact list
Shift leaders
38. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Planning
Debrief meeting
Commissions
Documentation
39. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Call/emergency meetings
Strategic priority
Listening
Terminable acts
40. 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
Payroll standards
Facilitator
Professionalism
Semivariable costs
41. 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
Problem-solving meetings
Certification
Team
Problem
42. 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
Action meetings
Standard
Motivation
Problem-solving model
43. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Unstructured exit interview
Message
Problem-solving model
Teamwork
44. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Bonuses
Merit pay
Facilitator
Message
45. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Involuntary termination
Debrief meeting
Cross-training
Mentor
46. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Motivators/Satisfiers
Informal communication
Principles
Self-directed teams
47. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Nepotism
Collective bargaining agreement
Negotiation
Covers
48. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Budget
Compensation
Action plan
49. 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
Noncontrollable costs
Core values
Nepotism
Workplace Ethics
50. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Standard
Teamwork
Self-disclosure
Scheduling