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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. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Wage
Environmental noise
Bonuses
Strategic priority
2. The environment that a message travels through
Semivariable costs
Message context
Message
Standard
3. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Noncontrollable costs
Documentation
Benchmark
Affection
4. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Vision Statement
SWOT analysis
Bonuses
Planning
5. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Sexual harassment
Core values
Conflict resolution
Facilitator
6. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Problem-solving model
Contact list
Decoding
Preventable crisis
7. 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
Planning
Objective
Semivariable costs
Involuntary termination
8. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Brainstorming meetings
Cross-functional team
Interfunctional team
Principles
9. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Preventable crisis
Unstructured exit interview
Facilitator
Listening
10. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Unpreventable crisis
Cross-training
Supporting
Deployment chart
11. 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
Scheduling
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Directing
Team
12. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Accountability
Empathy
Planning
Motivation
13. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Objective
Management
Brainstorming meetings
Management schedule
14. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Historical sales information
Sales projections
Vision Statement
Progressive disciplinary action
15. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Ground rules
Control
Storming
16. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Standard
Professionalism
Arbitration
17. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Time-off request policy
Contact list
Delegation
Master schedule
18. Costs that management can control
Wage
Motivators/Satisfiers
Planning
Controllable costs
19. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Exit interview
Stress
Departmental/team objectives
Standard
20. Costs that management cannot control
Problem solving
Noncontrollable costs
Individual performance of objectives
Budget
21. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Favoritism
Structured exit interview
Mission Statement
22. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Action meetings
Sales projections
Floaters
Performance review cycles
23. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Sales projections
Individual performance of objectives
Performing
Controllable costs
24. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Nepotism
Parking lot
Root cause
Compensation
25. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Parking lot
Nepotism
Cross-training
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
26. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Departmental/team objectives
Problem-solving team
Internal communication
Performance standard
27. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Leadership
Information meetings
Budget
Master schedule
28. 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
Compensation
Principles
Stress Management
Sexual harassment
29. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Problem-solving meetings
Vision Statement
Progressive disciplinary action
30. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Debrief meeting
Problem-solving model
Covers
Organizational communication
31. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Controllable costs
Motivators/Satisfiers
Minutes
Formal communication
32. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Root cause
Brainstorming
Terminable acts
33. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Historical sales information
Communication
Parking lot
Unpreventable crisis
34. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Documentation
Merit pay
Message context
Problem-solving model
35. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Goal
Crew schedule
Motivation
Objective
36. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Media policy
Management schedule
Information receiver
Action plan
37. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Performance review cycles
Decoding
Listening
Mediation
38. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Brainstorming
Objective
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Self-disclosure
39. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Action plan
Sexual harassment
Organizational goals
Warm-up activity
40. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Terminable acts
Information receiver
Documentation
Arbitration
41. 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
Core values
Information receiver
Problem-solving team
Team
42. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Negotiation
Crisis
SWOT analysis
Standard
43. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Measurable results
Standard
Mediation
Departmental/team objectives
44. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Facilitator
Call/emergency meetings
Crew schedule
Performance standard
45. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Terminable acts
Involuntary termination
Interfunctional team
Meeting
46. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Mediation
Agenda
Cross-training
Standard
47. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Action item
Team
Root cause
Collective bargaining agreement
48. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Employee absence policy
Budget
Negotiation
Scheduling
49. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Delegation
Mission Statement
Organizational goals
Forming
50. 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
Evacuation
Brainstorming
Certification
Motivation