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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. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Standard
Professionalism
Agenda
Motivation
2. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Mediation
Departmental/team objectives
Environmental noise
3. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Minutes
Measurable results
Conflict resolution
Preventable crisis
4. Statements of desired results
Goal
Internal communication
Floaters
Interfunctional team
5. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Alternative
Agenda
Shift leaders
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
6. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Arbitration
Ground rules
Team
Stress Management
7. 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
Motivation
Leadership
Workplace Ethics
Brainstorming
8. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Information meetings
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Action plan
Action meetings
9. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Bonuses
Facilitator
Communication
Stress Management
10. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Self-directed teams
Arbitration
Planning
Structured exit interview
11. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Team
Contingency plan
Performance standard
12. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Conflict resolution
Benchmark
Call/emergency meetings
Employee absence policy
13. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Message
Delegation
Delegation
Problem-solving team
14. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Personal treatment
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Formal communication
Root cause
15. 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
Minutes
Conflict resolution
Shift leaders
Objective
16. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Professional Development
Work styles
Message context
Communication
17. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Delegation
Voluntary termination
Nonverbal communication
Performance review cycles
18. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Decoding
Empathy
Nepotism
Organizational communication
19. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Media policy
Departmental/team objectives
Floaters
Formal communication
20. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Storming
Message context
Work styles
Minutes
21. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Environmental noise
Forming
Action item
Crew schedule
22. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Arbitration
Brainstorming
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Collective bargaining agreement
23. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Benchmark
Leadership
Certification
Mediation
24. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Personal treatment
Formal communication
Message
Commissions
25. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Self-disclosure
Evacuation
Motivators/Satisfiers
Master schedule
26. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Merit pay
Spin
Collective bargaining agreement
Informal communication
27. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Goal
Unpreventable crisis
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Formal communication
28. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Alternative
Workplace Ethics
Planning
Evacuation
29. 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
Management
Listening
Teamwork
30. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Management
Problem-solving model
Brainstorming meetings
Departmental/team objectives
31. The environment that a message travels through
Stress Management
Action item
Message context
Floaters
32. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Personal treatment
Historical sales information
Mission Statement
Message
33. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Favoritism
Motivators/Satisfiers
Planning
Information meetings
34. A conversation without prepared questions
Information meetings
Mentor
Unstructured exit interview
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
35. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Action meetings
Problem-solving model
Directing
Exit interview
36. 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
Information sender
Employee absence policy
Stress
Semivariable costs
37. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Information receiver
Crisis
Semivariable costs
Crew schedule
38. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Debrief meeting
Supporting
Information meetings
Master schedule
39. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Exit interview
Message channel
Spin
Debrief meeting
40. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Wage
Master schedule
Time Management
Norming
41. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Self-directed teams
Meeting
Scheduling
Problem solving
42. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Cross-functional team
Controllable costs
Sales projections
Management
43. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Nonverbal communication
Standard
Self-disclosure
Delegation
44. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Listening
Motivators/Satisfiers
Stress Management
Benchmark
45. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Measurable results
Agenda
Encoding
Root cause
46. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Departmental/team objectives
Standard
Debrief meeting
Brainstorming
47. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Mission Statement
Negotiation
Management schedule
Core values
48. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Professional Development
Leadership
Supporting
Deployment chart
49. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Management
Affection
Environmental noise
Information sender
50. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Unstructured exit interview
Favoritism
Call/emergency meetings
Employee absence policy