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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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1. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Core values
Terminable acts
Unstructured exit interview
Cross-training
2. 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
Shift leaders
Work styles
Core values
Interpersonal communication
3. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Management schedule
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Stress Management
Planning
4. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Merit pay
Professionalism
Action item
Deployment chart
5. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Involuntary termination
Self-directed teams
Progressive disciplinary action
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
6. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Warm-up activity
Ground rules
SWOT analysis
Informal communication
7. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Listening
Warm-up activity
Action plan
Motivation
8. 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
Self-disclosure
Semivariable costs
Controllable costs
Team
9. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Cross-functional team
Strategic priority
Crew schedule
Team
10. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Action plan
Minutes
Warm-up activity
Structured exit interview
11. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Information sender
Decoding
Problem-solving model
Internal communication
12. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Crisis
Formal communication
Performance review cycles
Forming
13. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Problem solving
Networking
Media policy
Next steps
14. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Documentation
Motivators/Satisfiers
Professionalism
Arbitration
15. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Problem solving
Arbitration
Problem-solving team
Time-off request policy
16. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Negotiation
Formal communication
Leadership
Controllable costs
17. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Personal treatment
Leadership
Nonverbal communication
Self-directed teams
18. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Agenda
Stress Management
Next steps
19. 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
Sexual harassment
Cross-functional team
Next steps
Problem solving
20. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Professional Development
Shift leaders
Standard
Crisis
21. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Spin
Informal communication
Parking lot
Organizational communication
22. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Mentor
Sales projections
Message context
Control
23. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Self-directed teams
Inclusion
Documentation
Affection
24. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Crew schedule
Sexual harassment
Merit pay
Sales projections
25. 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
Problem-solving model
Organizational goals
Contact list
Motivation
26. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Decoding
Alternative
Minutes
Individual performance of objectives
27. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Principles
Ground rules
Brainstorming meetings
Collective bargaining agreement
28. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Problem
Structured exit interview
Information meetings
Brainstorming
29. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Floaters
Planning
Work styles
Accountability
30. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Self-disclosure
Organizational communication
Problem-solving model
Warm-up activity
31. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Cross-training
Negotiation
Action meetings
Action item
32. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Root cause
Commissions
Payroll standards
Mission Statement
33. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Delegation
Management schedule
Encoding
Standard
34. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Motivators/Satisfiers
Delegation
Performing
Arbitration
35. A conversation without prepared questions
Problem-solving model
Decoding
Accountability
Unstructured exit interview
36. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Facilitator
Management schedule
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Benchmark
37. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Employee absence policy
Salaries
Affection
Nonverbal communication
38. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Directing
Evacuation
Problem-solving team
Vision Statement
39. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Management schedule
Time-off request policy
Employee absence policy
Next steps
40. 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
Collective bargaining agreement
Cross-training
Certification
Stress Management
41. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Formal communication
Message
Wage
Organizational goals
42. 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
Standard
Objective
Standard
Core values
43. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Strategic priority
Objective
Accountability
44. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Salaries
Preventable crisis
Environmental noise
Noncontrollable costs
45. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Stress
Action item
Wage
Goal
46. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Compensation
Information sender
Exit interview
Shift leaders
47. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Delegation
Informal communication
Individual performance of objectives
48. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Negotiation
Measurable results
Professional Development
Wage
49. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Departmental/team objectives
Objective
Interpersonal communication
Spin
50. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Planning
Favoritism
Norming
Internal communication