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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. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Teamwork
Self-directed teams
Favoritism
Cross-functional team
2. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Noncontrollable costs
Leadership
Information receiver
3. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Parking lot
Communication
Empathy
Nepotism
4. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Message context
Wage
Covers
Historical sales information
5. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Documentation
Ground rules
Media policy
Networking
6. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Motivation
Deployment chart
Informal communication
Parking lot
7. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Mission Statement
Formal communication
Professionalism
Problem-solving team
8. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Formal communication
Organizational communication
Meeting
Sexual harassment
9. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Directing
Terminable acts
Standard
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
10. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Leadership
Problem-solving model
Covers
Message context
11. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Forming
Information meetings
Contact list
Affection
12. Meetings that share communication
Delegation
Information meetings
Evacuation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
13. 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
Management
Directing
Motivation
Workplace Ethics
14. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Exit interview
Professionalism
Message context
Environmental noise
15. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Voluntary termination
Stress
Next steps
Personal treatment
16. 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
Core values
Meeting
Listening
Accountability
17. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Root cause
Networking
Inclusion
Evacuation
18. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Certification
Personal treatment
Collective bargaining agreement
Networking
19. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Noncontrollable costs
Alternative
Standard
Sales projections
20. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Commissions
Exit interview
Control
Action plan
21. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Individual performance of objectives
Unpreventable crisis
Message
Information sender
22. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Action meetings
Environmental noise
Mediation
Standard
23. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Cross-training
Problem
Media policy
Negotiation
24. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Workplace Ethics
Action meetings
Stress
Forming
25. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Contingency plan
Brainstorming meetings
Delegation
Contact list
26. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Warm-up activity
Voluntary termination
Management schedule
Spin
27. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Bonuses
Problem
Measurable results
Employee absence policy
28. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Empathy
Budget
Preventable crisis
Conflict resolution
29. Meals to be served
Payroll standards
Delegation
Master schedule
Covers
30. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Listening
Self-disclosure
Problem
Mentor
31. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Mentor
Work styles
Message context
Organizational communication
32. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Action meetings
Benchmark
Cross-training
Involuntary termination
33. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Cross-training
Warm-up activity
Root cause
34. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Professionalism
Management
Progressive disciplinary action
Performing
35. 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
Core values
Shift leaders
Merit pay
36. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Internal communication
Root cause
Delegation
Inclusion
37. Developing the message to be sent
Decoding
Empathy
Encoding
Message context
38. 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
Forming
Performance review cycles
Brainstorming
Certification
39. 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
Performance review cycles
Personal treatment
Storming
Noncontrollable costs
40. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Problem solving
Voluntary termination
Interfunctional team
Planning
41. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Nepotism
Compensation
Control
Message channel
42. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Professionalism
Debrief meeting
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Crisis
43. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Payroll standards
Action meetings
Conflict resolution
Benchmark
44. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Historical sales information
Work styles
Action item
Cross-functional team
45. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Sexual harassment
Brainstorming meetings
Motivators/Satisfiers
Call/emergency meetings
46. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Norming
Call/emergency meetings
Leadership
Formal communication
47. Costs that management cannot control
Message
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Noncontrollable costs
Documentation
48. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Mediation
Listening
Preventable crisis
Information meetings
49. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Wage
Message
Empathy
Control
50. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Deployment chart
Delegation
Supporting