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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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 conversation without prepared questions
Spin
Accountability
Unstructured exit interview
Time Management
2. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Message context
Compensation
Evacuation
Norming
3. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Next steps
Favoritism
Cross-functional team
Value Statement
4. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Negotiation
Performing
Crisis
Communication
5. 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
Nonverbal communication
Core values
Meeting
Interpersonal communication
6. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Bonuses
Organizational communication
Principles
Action plan
7. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Crisis
Contingency plan
Root cause
Merit pay
8. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Involuntary termination
Team
Self-directed teams
Information sender
9. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Delegation
Problem
Ground rules
Standard
10. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Directing
Sales projections
Arbitration
Measurable results
11. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Action plan
Evacuation
Professional Development
Message
12. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Documentation
Measurable results
Planning
Mediation
13. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Internal communication
Shift leaders
Self-directed teams
Involuntary termination
14. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Work styles
Problem solving
Objective
15. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Encoding
Voluntary termination
Progressive disciplinary action
Directing
16. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Strategic priority
Involuntary termination
Norming
Problem-solving team
17. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Unstructured exit interview
Problem solving
Unpreventable crisis
Inclusion
18. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem-solving model
Forming
Minutes
Measurable results
19. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Networking
Environmental noise
Exit interview
Covers
20. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Norming
Evacuation
Facilitator
Action item
21. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Media policy
Sexual harassment
Formal communication
Internal communication
22. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Semivariable costs
Documentation
Communication
Self-disclosure
23. An official record of key points discussed or covered at a meeting - as well as anything that might have been decided or completed during the meeting
Personal treatment
Next steps
Self-directed teams
Minutes
24. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Warm-up activity
Delegation
Message context
Networking
25. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Planning
Delegation
Collective bargaining agreement
Documentation
26. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Performance review cycles
Informal communication
Employee absence policy
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
27. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Parking lot
Mentor
Preventable crisis
Accountability
28. The person for whom the communication is intended
Information receiver
Action plan
Measurable results
Informal communication
29. 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
Shift leaders
Inclusion
Departmental/team objectives
Involuntary termination
30. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Exit interview
Preventable crisis
Performance review cycles
Negotiation
31. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Motivation
Parking lot
Spin
Stress
32. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Budget
Call/emergency meetings
Information meetings
Professionalism
33. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Value Statement
Wage
Employee absence policy
Scheduling
34. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Departmental/team objectives
SWOT analysis
Arbitration
Core values
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
Mentor
Management
Shift leaders
Storming
36. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Employee absence policy
Evacuation
Message context
37. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Objective
Media policy
Time-off request policy
38. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Professionalism
Spin
Networking
Negotiation
39. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Mentor
Communication
Noncontrollable costs
Problem-solving team
40. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Problem-solving team
Standard
Terminable acts
Sales projections
41. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Interfunctional team
Crew schedule
Mediation
Ground rules
42. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Preventable crisis
Mediation
Problem
Personal treatment
43. Meals to be served
Covers
Shift leaders
Motivation
Supporting
44. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Cross-training
Root cause
Mission Statement
Core values
45. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Unpreventable crisis
Standard
Parking lot
Vision Statement
46. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Involuntary termination
Strategic priority
Personal treatment
Norming
47. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Information sender
Bonuses
Root cause
Motivators/Satisfiers
48. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Contact list
Organizational goals
Teamwork
Management
49. 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
Problem-solving meetings
Value Statement
Delegation
50. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Problem solving
Salaries
Encoding