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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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. Meetings that share communication
Information meetings
Collective bargaining agreement
Sexual harassment
Supporting
2. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Commissions
Deployment chart
Workplace Ethics
Crisis
3. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Controllable costs
Principles
Agenda
Message channel
4. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Arbitration
Scheduling
Environmental noise
Principles
5. 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
Vision Statement
Stress Management
Inclusion
Standard
6. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Warm-up activity
Delegation
Networking
7. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Semivariable costs
Certification
Goal
Team
8. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Salaries
Budget
Forming
Parking lot
9. 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
Terminable acts
Organizational communication
Principles
10. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Action item
Networking
Norming
11. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Action item
Personal treatment
Agenda
Progressive disciplinary action
12. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Forming
Internal communication
Mentor
Root cause
13. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Cross-functional team
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Wage
Conflict resolution
14. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Covers
Cross-functional team
Team
Time-off request policy
15. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Floaters
Communication
Evacuation
Exit interview
16. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Call/emergency meetings
Control
Parking lot
Ground rules
17. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Root cause
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
SWOT analysis
Supporting
18. 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
Next steps
Minutes
Management
Delegation
19. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Sexual harassment
Principles
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Covers
20. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Management schedule
SWOT analysis
Payroll standards
Brainstorming
21. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Message
Minutes
Historical sales information
Commissions
22. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Encoding
Deployment chart
Performance standard
Networking
23. 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
Management
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Involuntary termination
Vision Statement
24. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Structured exit interview
Information sender
Shift leaders
Bonuses
25. Costs that management cannot control
Performing
Noncontrollable costs
Self-disclosure
Problem
26. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Decoding
Departmental/team objectives
Scheduling
Contingency plan
27. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Workplace Ethics
Preventable crisis
Standard
Empathy
28. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Crisis
Structured exit interview
Message
Information meetings
29. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Sexual harassment
Nepotism
Individual performance of objectives
Workplace Ethics
30. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Unpreventable crisis
Core values
Floaters
Delegation
31. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Facilitator
Message context
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Brainstorming
32. Involves telling the group what specifically needs to be accomplished - establishing guidelines - and providing specifics on the five Ws (who - what - when where - why) and how
Self-directed teams
Action plan
Directing
Performance standard
33. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Contact list
Mediation
Scheduling
Problem-solving team
34. Costs that management can control
Action meetings
Controllable costs
Organizational goals
Minutes
35. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Next steps
Debrief meeting
Professional Development
Management schedule
36. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Spin
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Measurable results
Vision Statement
37. 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
Evacuation
Performing
Storming
38. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Collective bargaining agreement
Action item
Ground rules
Minutes
39. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Departmental/team objectives
Message
Control
Formal communication
40. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Nepotism
Interfunctional team
Departmental/team objectives
Principles
41. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Master schedule
Budget
Goal
Unstructured exit interview
42. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Planning
Salaries
Empathy
Measurable results
43. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Debrief meeting
Action meetings
Interpersonal communication
Interfunctional team
44. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Noncontrollable costs
Management
Professional Development
45. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Brainstorming meetings
Involuntary termination
Self-directed teams
Documentation
46. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Nepotism
Favoritism
Decoding
Parking lot
47. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Problem-solving model
Evacuation
Self-directed teams
Call/emergency meetings
48. 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
Documentation
Semivariable costs
Debrief meeting
Alternative
49. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Commissions
Nepotism
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Interfunctional team
50. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Bonuses
Controllable costs
Cross-functional team
Voluntary termination