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HRI Certification
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certifications
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hri
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 standard by which something can be measured or judged
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Individual performance of objectives
Benchmark
Sexual harassment
2. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Management schedule
Stress Management
Cross-training
Nonverbal communication
3. Meals to be served
Mission Statement
Information meetings
Work styles
Covers
4. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Management
Brainstorming meetings
Master schedule
Nepotism
5. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Principles
Noncontrollable costs
Ground rules
Team
6. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Problem-solving model
Measurable results
Agenda
Warm-up activity
7. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Communication
Cross-functional team
Spin
Information sender
8. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Arbitration
Progressive disciplinary action
Noncontrollable costs
Action meetings
9. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Information receiver
Progressive disciplinary action
Directing
Standard
10. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Documentation
Next steps
Message
Budget
11. 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)
Budget
Message
Debrief meeting
12. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Salaries
Forming
Self-disclosure
Self-directed teams
13. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Action plan
Collective bargaining agreement
Action item
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
14. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Self-disclosure
Floaters
Employee absence policy
Internal communication
15. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Progressive disciplinary action
SWOT analysis
Facilitator
Value Statement
16. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Empathy
Formal communication
Performance review cycles
Listening
17. Govern unemployment compensation
Contingency plan
Mediation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Unpreventable crisis
18. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Root cause
Empathy
Time-off request policy
Directing
19. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Conflict resolution
Formal communication
Forming
Performance standard
20. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Nonverbal communication
Warm-up activity
Norming
Terminable acts
21. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Management schedule
Workplace Ethics
Action meetings
Master schedule
22. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Semivariable costs
Organizational goals
Delegation
Problem-solving team
23. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Time Management
Meeting
Preventable crisis
Employee absence policy
24. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Principles
Crew schedule
Evacuation
Unpreventable crisis
25. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Organizational communication
Self-directed teams
Master schedule
Next steps
26. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Benchmark
Message context
Crew schedule
Nonverbal communication
27. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Minutes
Negotiation
Personal treatment
Informal communication
28. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Formal communication
Problem-solving meetings
Delegation
Management
29. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Scheduling
Professionalism
Exit interview
Controllable costs
30. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Employee absence policy
Listening
Nepotism
Management schedule
31. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Work styles
Encoding
Ground rules
Individual performance of objectives
32. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Delegation
Benchmark
Problem solving
Goal
33. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Ground rules
Semivariable costs
Teamwork
Message channel
34. 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
Unpreventable crisis
Certification
Delegation
Documentation
35. The environment that a message travels through
Communication
Conflict resolution
Message context
Message channel
36. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Historical sales information
Commissions
Value Statement
Deployment chart
37. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Favoritism
Planning
Involuntary termination
Debrief meeting
38. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Strategic priority
Departmental/team objectives
Collective bargaining agreement
Call/emergency meetings
39. 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
Inclusion
Directing
Objective
Evacuation
40. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Interpersonal communication
Spin
Internal communication
Leadership
41. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Directing
Goal
Mission Statement
42. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Payroll standards
SWOT analysis
Management schedule
Core values
43. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Favoritism
Stress
Sales projections
Problem
44. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Certification
Standard
Collective bargaining agreement
45. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Organizational goals
Affection
Control
Agenda
46. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Crisis
Documentation
Preventable crisis
Terminable acts
47. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Management
Departmental/team objectives
Voluntary termination
Motivation
48. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Stress
Terminable acts
Deployment chart
Mission Statement
49. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Professional Development
Benchmark
Time Management
Exit interview
50. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Empathy
Structured exit interview
Affection
Bonuses