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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. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Formal communication
Collective bargaining agreement
Planning
Informal communication
2. Statements of desired results
Goal
Strategic priority
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Shift leaders
3. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Progressive disciplinary action
Evacuation
Message
Professional Development
4. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Floaters
Objective
Networking
Deployment chart
5. Costs that management can control
Shift leaders
Controllable costs
Goal
Contingency plan
6. Meetings that share communication
Professional Development
Information meetings
Informal communication
Media policy
7. Meals to be served
Message context
Departmental/team objectives
Warm-up activity
Covers
8. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Benchmark
Salaries
Professionalism
Floaters
9. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
SWOT analysis
Scheduling
Cross-training
Accountability
10. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Sales projections
Negotiation
Floaters
Supporting
11. The environment that a message travels through
Information sender
Compensation
Problem solving
Message context
12. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Delegation
Crew schedule
Internal communication
Measurable results
13. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Brainstorming
Wage
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
14. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Affection
Sales projections
Meeting
Listening
15. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Performance standard
Voluntary termination
Work styles
Payroll standards
16. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Work styles
Self-disclosure
Problem-solving meetings
Vision Statement
17. A potential solution to a problem
Alternative
Time Management
Action meetings
Semivariable costs
18. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Cross-training
Action meetings
Objective
Problem-solving team
19. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Media policy
Delegation
Mentor
Terminable acts
20. 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
Management
Preventable crisis
Salaries
Floaters
21. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Professional Development
Performance review cycles
Performing
Departmental/team objectives
22. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Unpreventable crisis
Interfunctional team
Spin
Compensation
23. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Master schedule
Semivariable costs
Budget
Performing
24. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Inclusion
Contact list
Cross-functional team
Problem-solving team
25. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Delegation
Individual performance of objectives
Decoding
Nonverbal communication
26. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Negotiation
Value Statement
Involuntary termination
Cross-training
27. A conversation without prepared questions
Problem-solving meetings
Communication
Preventable crisis
Unstructured exit interview
28. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Semivariable costs
Payroll standards
Media policy
Core values
29. Costs that management cannot control
Warm-up activity
Action item
Noncontrollable costs
Organizational goals
30. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Stress Management
Professionalism
Favoritism
Conflict resolution
31. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Problem-solving team
Employee absence policy
Action meetings
Organizational communication
32. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Problem
Crew schedule
Budget
Covers
33. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Individual performance of objectives
Payroll standards
Norming
Information receiver
34. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Action plan
Preventable crisis
Self-disclosure
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
35. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Minutes
Mediation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Accountability
36. 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
Management
Cross-training
Directing
Media policy
37. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Unpreventable crisis
Spin
Crisis
Cross-functional team
38. 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
Merit pay
Budget
Meeting
39. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Control
Ground rules
Warm-up activity
Facilitator
40. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Wage
Arbitration
Benchmark
Warm-up activity
41. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Budget
Standard
SWOT analysis
Collective bargaining agreement
42. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Stress Management
Control
Problem
Self-directed teams
43. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Problem-solving team
Workplace Ethics
Encoding
Terminable acts
44. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Certification
Evacuation
Salaries
Commissions
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
Controllable costs
Motivation
Alternative
Shift leaders
46. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Measurable results
Certification
Individual performance of objectives
Cross-functional team
47. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Collective bargaining agreement
Information sender
Ground rules
Organizational goals
48. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Mediation
Action plan
Call/emergency meetings
Ground rules
49. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Nonverbal communication
Listening
Time Management
Internal communication
50. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Motivation
Personal treatment
Objective
Control