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HRI Certification
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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. Meals to be served
Cross-training
Leadership
Mission Statement
Covers
2. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Self-disclosure
Payroll standards
Warm-up activity
Unpreventable crisis
3. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Stress
Salaries
Departmental/team objectives
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
4. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Inclusion
Objective
Spin
Brainstorming
5. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Root cause
Team
Professionalism
Sexual harassment
6. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Problem-solving model
Crew schedule
Professional Development
Voluntary termination
7. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Contingency plan
Compensation
Mission Statement
8. Costs that management cannot control
Workplace Ethics
Noncontrollable costs
Preventable crisis
Benchmark
9. 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
Internal communication
Interpersonal communication
Nepotism
Value Statement
10. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Call/emergency meetings
Bonuses
Unstructured exit interview
Directing
11. An official record of key points discussed or covered at a meeting - as well as anything that might have been decided or completed during the meeting
Minutes
Merit pay
Personal treatment
Mission Statement
12. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Internal communication
Unstructured exit interview
Planning
Time Management
13. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Storming
Action meetings
Accountability
Employee absence policy
14. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Environmental noise
Message channel
Time-off request policy
Arbitration
15. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Measurable results
Employee absence policy
Mission Statement
Voluntary termination
16. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Contact list
Floaters
Sales projections
Norming
17. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Alternative
Information sender
Floaters
Professional Development
18. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Call/emergency meetings
Information meetings
19. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Next steps
Control
Environmental noise
Progressive disciplinary action
20. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Management schedule
Deployment chart
Delegation
Empathy
21. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Facilitator
Self-disclosure
Salaries
Strategic priority
22. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Sexual harassment
Media policy
Interpersonal communication
Structured exit interview
23. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
SWOT analysis
Message context
Teamwork
Favoritism
24. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Performing
Formal communication
Information sender
Arbitration
25. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Formal communication
Crisis
Nonverbal communication
Stress Management
26. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Measurable results
Certification
Empathy
Preventable crisis
27. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Exit interview
Wage
Floaters
Organizational communication
28. 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
Scheduling
Information sender
Crisis
29. 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
Merit pay
Networking
Stress Management
Time-off request policy
30. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Crew schedule
Motivation
Delegation
Evacuation
31. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Work styles
Listening
Cross-training
Objective
32. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Standard
Time Management
Management schedule
Mediation
33. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Stress Management
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Sexual harassment
Payroll standards
34. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Brainstorming meetings
Agenda
Master schedule
Storming
35. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Standard
Budget
Facilitator
Merit pay
36. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Conflict resolution
Scheduling
Decoding
37. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Message
Warm-up activity
Team
Floaters
38. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Commissions
Work styles
Arbitration
Information sender
39. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem-solving model
Delegation
Call/emergency meetings
Conflict resolution
40. 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
Meeting
Semivariable costs
Storming
Strategic priority
41. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Stress
Empathy
Parking lot
SWOT analysis
42. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Directing
Teamwork
Networking
Contingency plan
43. 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
Organizational goals
Organizational communication
Management
Professional Development
44. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Inclusion
Standard
Crew schedule
Warm-up activity
45. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Mission Statement
Progressive disciplinary action
Spin
Commissions
46. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Semivariable costs
Communication
Networking
Debrief meeting
47. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Media policy
Self-disclosure
Contact list
Organizational communication
48. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Message channel
Value Statement
Listening
Empathy
49. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Nonverbal communication
Contact list
Call/emergency meetings
Decoding
50. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Accountability
Internal communication
Formal communication
Historical sales information