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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. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Progressive disciplinary action
Structured exit interview
Inclusion
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
2. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Alternative
Forming
Preventable crisis
Warm-up activity
3. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Motivation
Storming
Encoding
Listening
4. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Shift leaders
Controllable costs
Sexual harassment
5. 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
Problem-solving meetings
Supporting
Conflict resolution
Performance review cycles
6. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Delegation
Contact list
Communication
7. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Interfunctional team
Spin
Progressive disciplinary action
Management schedule
8. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Problem-solving team
Time Management
Budget
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
9. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Employee absence policy
Terminable acts
Motivators/Satisfiers
Problem-solving team
10. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Communication
Delegation
Arbitration
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
11. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Message channel
Storming
Warm-up activity
Self-disclosure
12. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Unstructured exit interview
SWOT analysis
Benchmark
Exit interview
13. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Personal treatment
Negotiation
Teamwork
Departmental/team objectives
14. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Accountability
Brainstorming meetings
Teamwork
Nonverbal communication
15. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Networking
Leadership
Team
Media policy
16. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Stress Management
Interpersonal communication
Message
Standard
17. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Compensation
Time-off request policy
Action plan
Debrief meeting
18. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Budget
Decoding
Semivariable costs
Ground rules
19. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Value Statement
Exit interview
Performing
Compensation
20. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Arbitration
Team
Voluntary termination
Call/emergency meetings
21. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Brainstorming meetings
Action meetings
Floaters
Encoding
22. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Control
Ground rules
Action plan
Agenda
23. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Media policy
Personal treatment
Strategic priority
Performance review cycles
24. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Favoritism
Problem
Action plan
Brainstorming meetings
25. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Delegation
Professionalism
Message context
Alternative
26. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Delegation
Unpreventable crisis
Organizational goals
Problem-solving meetings
27. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Problem-solving model
Spin
Message context
Problem solving
28. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Merit pay
SWOT analysis
Vision Statement
Favoritism
29. 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
Spin
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Workplace Ethics
Semivariable costs
30. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Salaries
Leadership
Scheduling
31. Costs that management can control
Networking
Controllable costs
Minutes
Historical sales information
32. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Problem-solving meetings
Structured exit interview
Control
Bonuses
33. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Action item
Standard
Warm-up activity
Motivators/Satisfiers
34. 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
Debrief meeting
Next steps
Networking
Affection
35. A conversation without prepared questions
Teamwork
Covers
Unstructured exit interview
Delegation
36. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Exit interview
Bonuses
Nepotism
Norming
37. The environment that a message travels through
Message context
Strategic priority
Delegation
Call/emergency meetings
38. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Problem-solving team
Parking lot
Problem solving
Involuntary termination
39. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Historical sales information
Internal communication
Professionalism
Delegation
40. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Personal treatment
Departmental/team objectives
Workplace Ethics
Organizational communication
41. 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
Involuntary termination
Wage
Certification
Networking
42. 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
Value Statement
Interpersonal communication
Benchmark
Problem-solving model
43. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Message channel
Information meetings
Management schedule
Stress Management
44. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Delegation
Progressive disciplinary action
Workplace Ethics
Conflict resolution
45. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Shift leaders
Goal
Action meetings
Mission Statement
46. 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
Management
Mission Statement
Core values
Inclusion
47. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Decoding
Message context
Workplace Ethics
Facilitator
48. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Action meetings
Informal communication
Agenda
Budget
49. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Wage
Delegation
Contact list
Empathy
50. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Motivators/Satisfiers
Norming
SWOT analysis
Stress