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HRI Certification
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certifications
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Instructions:
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. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Nonverbal communication
Brainstorming
Preventable crisis
Parking lot
2. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Media policy
Sales projections
Personal treatment
Formal communication
3. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Goal
Payroll standards
Debrief meeting
Principles
4. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Merit pay
Forming
Noncontrollable costs
Planning
5. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Cross-functional team
Action item
Semivariable costs
Listening
6. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Principles
Floaters
Environmental noise
Encoding
7. Govern unemployment compensation
Unpreventable crisis
Salaries
Compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
8. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Crew schedule
Negotiation
Problem-solving team
Facilitator
9. Developing the message to be sent
Encoding
Goal
Employee absence policy
Next steps
10. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem
Problem-solving model
Interpersonal communication
Negotiation
11. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Delegation
Action meetings
Affection
12. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Root cause
Professional Development
Negotiation
Standard
13. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Unpreventable crisis
Semivariable costs
Progressive disciplinary action
Budget
14. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Favoritism
Time-off request policy
Evacuation
Action meetings
15. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Stress Management
Interfunctional team
Internal communication
Self-disclosure
16. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Stress
Problem-solving meetings
Value Statement
Delegation
17. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Brainstorming
Crisis
Strategic priority
Merit pay
18. 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
Sexual harassment
Decoding
Involuntary termination
Crisis
19. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Decoding
Warm-up activity
Vision Statement
20. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Decoding
Problem
Alternative
Internal communication
21. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Alternative
Structured exit interview
Benchmark
Standard
22. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Spin
Nonverbal communication
Performing
Accountability
23. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Noncontrollable costs
Semivariable costs
Alternative
Cross-functional team
24. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Environmental noise
Vision Statement
Collective bargaining agreement
Nonverbal communication
25. The environment that a message travels through
Message context
Control
Networking
Professionalism
26. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Control
Terminable acts
Team
Interfunctional team
27. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Brainstorming meetings
Interpersonal communication
Documentation
Employee absence policy
28. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Motivation
Listening
Floaters
Deployment chart
29. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Personal treatment
Historical sales information
Media policy
Agenda
30. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Benchmark
Nonverbal communication
Workplace Ethics
Inclusion
31. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Supporting
Value Statement
Sales projections
Professional Development
32. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Individual performance of objectives
Preventable crisis
Work styles
Floaters
33. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Nepotism
Scheduling
Performance review cycles
Message channel
34. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Organizational communication
Commissions
Involuntary termination
Collective bargaining agreement
35. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Networking
Inclusion
Performance review cycles
Formal communication
36. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Self-directed teams
Message
Delegation
Contingency plan
37. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Supporting
Stress
Informal communication
Evacuation
38. A conversation without prepared questions
Problem-solving model
Unstructured exit interview
Covers
Bonuses
39. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Employee absence policy
Inclusion
Voluntary termination
Forming
40. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Crisis
Teamwork
Principles
Alternative
41. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Message context
Work styles
Progressive disciplinary action
Bonuses
42. Statements of desired results
Goal
Ground rules
Leadership
Progressive disciplinary action
43. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Problem-solving team
Objective
Time-off request policy
Value Statement
44. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Wage
Controllable costs
45. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Warm-up activity
Departmental/team objectives
Organizational communication
Affection
46. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Problem-solving model
Motivation
Professional Development
Self-directed teams
47. 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
Listening
Next steps
Media policy
Cross-training
48. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Collective bargaining agreement
Nonverbal communication
Progressive disciplinary action
Storming
49. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Storming
Brainstorming
Sexual harassment
50. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Information receiver
Time Management
Terminable acts
Benchmark