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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. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Management schedule
Problem-solving team
Problem-solving meetings
Commissions
2. 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
Nepotism
Individual performance of objectives
Problem
Directing
3. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Internal communication
Inclusion
Delegation
Information receiver
4. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Crisis
Storming
Professional Development
5. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Stress Management
Vision Statement
Storming
Problem-solving model
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
Next steps
Problem solving
Stress
Problem-solving model
7. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Employee absence policy
Self-disclosure
Sales projections
Debrief meeting
8. 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
Warm-up activity
Problem
Standard
Motivation
9. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Strategic priority
Warm-up activity
Objective
Time Management
10. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Personal treatment
Workplace Ethics
Spin
Next steps
11. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Brainstorming meetings
Standard
Objective
Communication
12. 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
Professional Development
Spin
Core values
Management
13. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Organizational goals
Warm-up activity
Terminable acts
Core values
14. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Employee absence policy
Arbitration
Sales projections
Organizational communication
15. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Performing
Control
Nepotism
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
16. The person for whom the communication is intended
Personal treatment
Mediation
Next steps
Information receiver
17. 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
Action item
Planning
Objective
18. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Accountability
Media policy
Time-off request policy
Standard
19. Costs that management cannot control
Agenda
Stress
Noncontrollable costs
Unpreventable crisis
20. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Empathy
Media policy
Budget
Strategic priority
21. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Affection
Negotiation
Information meetings
Master schedule
22. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Progressive disciplinary action
Brainstorming
Planning
Organizational communication
23. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Shift leaders
Performance review cycles
Structured exit interview
Organizational communication
24. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Departmental/team objectives
Agenda
Interfunctional team
Mission Statement
25. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Objective
Accountability
Encoding
Warm-up activity
26. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Mediation
Self-directed teams
Media policy
Nepotism
27. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Involuntary termination
Progressive disciplinary action
Problem
Inclusion
28. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Formal communication
Inclusion
Decoding
Storming
29. Developing the message to be sent
Encoding
Certification
Debrief meeting
Problem solving
30. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Standard
Bonuses
Scheduling
31. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Sexual harassment
Unpreventable crisis
Accountability
Objective
32. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Accountability
SWOT analysis
Workplace Ethics
33. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Documentation
Interpersonal communication
Semivariable costs
Supporting
34. 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
Budget
Noncontrollable costs
Team
35. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Value Statement
Team
Next steps
Management schedule
36. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Preventable crisis
Team
Directing
Inclusion
37. 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
Stress Management
Problem-solving model
Call/emergency meetings
Strategic priority
38. Meals to be served
Strategic priority
Core values
Covers
Organizational communication
39. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Preventable crisis
Payroll standards
Exit interview
Action meetings
40. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Salaries
Norming
Interfunctional team
Strategic priority
41. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Alternative
Ground rules
Communication
Personal treatment
42. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Forming
Ground rules
Contingency plan
Performance standard
43. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Organizational goals
Mediation
Media policy
Shift leaders
44. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Contact list
Communication
Cross-training
Information meetings
45. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Deployment chart
Leadership
Benchmark
Mission Statement
46. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Master schedule
Collective bargaining agreement
Message
Sexual harassment
47. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Leadership
Master schedule
Internal communication
Self-disclosure
48. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Compensation
Self-directed teams
Covers
Empathy
49. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Delegation
Problem
Controllable costs
Semivariable costs
50. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Measurable results
Leadership
Floaters
Compensation