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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. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Certification
Ground rules
Departmental/team objectives
Negotiation
2. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Noncontrollable costs
Evacuation
Inclusion
Self-directed teams
3. The environment that a message travels through
Controllable costs
Message context
Next steps
Agenda
4. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Ground rules
Wage
Problem
Crisis
5. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Empathy
Bonuses
Nonverbal communication
Next steps
6. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Inclusion
Terminable acts
Ground rules
Floaters
7. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Directing
Employee absence policy
8. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Individual performance of objectives
Terminable acts
Empathy
Negotiation
9. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Forming
Meeting
Contact list
Crisis
10. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Interpersonal communication
Work styles
Budget
Shift leaders
11. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Norming
Self-disclosure
Controllable costs
Planning
12. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Scheduling
Meeting
Contingency plan
Certification
13. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Evacuation
Problem-solving model
Measurable results
Action meetings
14. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Facilitator
Historical sales information
Strategic priority
Wage
15. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Personal treatment
Management schedule
Employee absence policy
Favoritism
16. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Merit pay
Encoding
Performance standard
Internal communication
17. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Unstructured exit interview
Informal communication
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Accountability
18. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Storming
Favoritism
Scheduling
Floaters
19. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Objective
Interfunctional team
Time Management
Principles
20. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Certification
Action meetings
Sales projections
Problem
21. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Listening
Progressive disciplinary action
Time Management
Preventable crisis
22. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Cross-functional team
Performing
Brainstorming
Stress Management
23. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Problem-solving meetings
Sales projections
Unstructured exit interview
Strategic priority
24. Costs that management can control
Motivators/Satisfiers
Mediation
Measurable results
Controllable costs
25. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Master schedule
Commissions
Root cause
Listening
26. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Standard
Interpersonal communication
Evacuation
Core values
27. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Performance review cycles
Work styles
SWOT analysis
Encoding
28. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Merit pay
Brainstorming
Arbitration
Message channel
29. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Interfunctional team
Communication
Self-disclosure
Forming
30. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Parking lot
Agenda
Action plan
Interpersonal communication
31. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Cross-functional team
Team
Progressive disciplinary action
Standard
32. 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
Personal treatment
Performance review cycles
Problem-solving model
Measurable results
33. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Mediation
Arbitration
Message channel
Measurable results
34. A conversation without prepared questions
Interpersonal communication
Motivators/Satisfiers
Structured exit interview
Unstructured exit interview
35. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Certification
Merit pay
Formal communication
Management schedule
36. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Teamwork
Sexual harassment
Bonuses
Facilitator
37. Developing the message to be sent
Encoding
Mediation
Parking lot
Root cause
38. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Stress
Documentation
Preventable crisis
Root cause
39. 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
Collective bargaining agreement
Standard
Certification
40. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Structured exit interview
Decoding
Departmental/team objectives
Covers
41. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Vision Statement
Involuntary termination
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Formal communication
42. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Management schedule
Encoding
Stress Management
Information meetings
43. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Standard
Empathy
Arbitration
44. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Information receiver
Performing
Objective
Historical sales information
45. 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
Principles
Standard
Mentor
Motivation
46. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Departmental/team objectives
Formal communication
Listening
SWOT analysis
47. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Brainstorming meetings
Stress Management
Minutes
Unstructured exit interview
48. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Professionalism
Employee absence policy
Team
Principles
49. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Meeting
Communication
Work styles
Controllable costs
50. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Master schedule
Stress
Benchmark
Bonuses