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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. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Formal communication
Control
Shift leaders
Communication
2. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Delegation
Merit pay
Communication
Terminable acts
3. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Structured exit interview
Noncontrollable costs
Problem
Next steps
4. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Work styles
Spin
Unpreventable crisis
Mission Statement
5. Developing the message to be sent
Delegation
Sexual harassment
Encoding
Wage
6. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Problem-solving meetings
Salaries
Networking
Arbitration
7. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Cross-training
Benchmark
Workplace Ethics
Bonuses
8. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Benchmark
Salaries
Cross-training
Media policy
9. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Storming
Sexual harassment
Favoritism
Standard
10. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Problem-solving team
Message
Motivation
Agenda
11. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Shift leaders
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Sales projections
Warm-up activity
12. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Information receiver
Information sender
Principles
13. A potential solution to a problem
Alternative
Personal treatment
Informal communication
Budget
14. 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
Delegation
Affection
Stress Management
Conflict resolution
15. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Agenda
Problem
Mission Statement
Performing
16. A conversation without prepared questions
Exit interview
Unstructured exit interview
Action meetings
Performance standard
17. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Performance review cycles
Norming
Controllable costs
Arbitration
18. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Covers
Work styles
Problem-solving team
Brainstorming
19. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Alternative
Mediation
Master schedule
Team
20. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Delegation
Objective
Warm-up activity
Message
21. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Interfunctional team
Action item
Measurable results
Forming
22. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Core values
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Norming
Floaters
23. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Crisis
Planning
Compensation
Supporting
24. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Master schedule
Internal communication
Personal treatment
Performing
25. Costs that management can control
Contingency plan
Organizational communication
Controllable costs
Crisis
26. Costs that management cannot control
Delegation
Noncontrollable costs
Crew schedule
Problem
27. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Floaters
Merit pay
Exit interview
Scheduling
28. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Brainstorming
Unpreventable crisis
Team
Meeting
29. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Unpreventable crisis
Affection
Forming
Stress Management
30. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Terminable acts
Core values
Root cause
Evacuation
31. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Problem solving
Compensation
Benchmark
Communication
32. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Affection
Media policy
Compensation
Root cause
33. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Crisis
Internal communication
Involuntary termination
Professional Development
34. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Ground rules
Principles
Master schedule
Management schedule
35. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Arbitration
Spin
Encoding
Time-off request policy
36. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Preventable crisis
Leadership
Self-disclosure
Action item
37. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Information meetings
Informal communication
Objective
Strategic priority
38. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Encoding
Deployment chart
Strategic priority
Covers
39. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Storming
Employee absence policy
Deployment chart
Performing
40. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Delegation
Employee absence policy
Self-directed teams
Noncontrollable costs
41. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Planning
Principles
Collective bargaining agreement
Team
42. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Decoding
Standard
Meeting
Warm-up activity
43. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Standard
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Controllable costs
Interfunctional team
44. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Communication
Teamwork
Mediation
Wage
45. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Floaters
Empathy
Information sender
Arbitration
46. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Meeting
Performing
Environmental noise
Unpreventable crisis
47. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Message channel
Salaries
Principles
Cross-training
48. Meetings that share communication
Noncontrollable costs
Problem-solving meetings
Organizational goals
Information meetings
49. 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
Unstructured exit interview
Next steps
Forming
Meeting
50. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Action meetings
Time-off request policy
Documentation
Shift leaders