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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
Forming
Individual performance of objectives
Inclusion
Wage
2. The environment that a message travels through
Controllable costs
Norming
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Message context
3. 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
Root cause
Time-off request policy
Unstructured exit interview
4. A conversation without prepared questions
Unstructured exit interview
Planning
Standard
Sales projections
5. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Bonuses
Problem solving
Standard
Favoritism
6. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Contingency plan
Information receiver
Performing
Message context
7. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Standard
Organizational goals
Action item
Performance review cycles
8. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Affection
Action meetings
Principles
Deployment chart
9. 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
Compensation
Benchmark
Involuntary termination
Supporting
10. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Brainstorming meetings
Call/emergency meetings
Empathy
Semivariable costs
11. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Time-off request policy
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Brainstorming
Master schedule
12. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Warm-up activity
Team
Information sender
Action item
13. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Standard
Personal treatment
Collective bargaining agreement
Preventable crisis
14. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Planning
Team
Documentation
Departmental/team objectives
15. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Preventable crisis
Decoding
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Voluntary termination
16. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Unpreventable crisis
Commissions
Value Statement
Control
17. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Wage
Crew schedule
Debrief meeting
Performance review cycles
18. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Semivariable costs
Supporting
Scheduling
Personal treatment
19. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Stress
Spin
Message
Information receiver
20. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Unpreventable crisis
Structured exit interview
Deployment chart
Agenda
21. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Information receiver
Arbitration
Next steps
Delegation
22. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Communication
Planning
Problem
Performing
23. 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)
Delegation
Payroll standards
Minutes
24. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Stress
Inclusion
Vision Statement
Professionalism
25. The person for whom the communication is intended
Information receiver
Evacuation
Professionalism
Directing
26. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Action item
Mentor
SWOT analysis
Norming
27. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Shift leaders
Problem-solving meetings
Evacuation
Contingency plan
28. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Brainstorming meetings
Sexual harassment
Information meetings
Measurable results
29. 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
Involuntary termination
Certification
Debrief meeting
Shift leaders
30. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Forming
Cross-functional team
Objective
Standard
31. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Message context
Formal communication
Bonuses
Documentation
32. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Networking
Self-directed teams
Mediation
Environmental noise
33. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Root cause
Payroll standards
Standard
Information receiver
34. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Evacuation
Storming
Preventable crisis
Involuntary termination
35. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Documentation
Controllable costs
Measurable results
Self-disclosure
36. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Commissions
Message context
Self-disclosure
Standard
37. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Listening
Action plan
Next steps
Leadership
38. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Call/emergency meetings
Problem-solving team
Inclusion
Minutes
39. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Collective bargaining agreement
Management schedule
Information meetings
Favoritism
40. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Employee absence policy
Information sender
Brainstorming
Mediation
41. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Norming
Preventable crisis
Workplace Ethics
Merit pay
42. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Delegation
Action item
Preventable crisis
SWOT analysis
43. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Mediation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Conflict resolution
Nepotism
44. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Decoding
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Root cause
45. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Organizational communication
Empathy
Contact list
Mentor
46. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Spin
Communication
Call/emergency meetings
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
47. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Crisis
Merit pay
Deployment chart
Self-directed teams
48. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Supporting
Control
Delegation
Semivariable costs
49. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Commissions
Storming
Norming
Empathy
50. Statements of desired results
Departmental/team objectives
Inclusion
Goal
Supporting