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HRI Certification
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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. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Favoritism
Preventable crisis
Action meetings
Control
2. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Semivariable costs
Debrief meeting
Agenda
Commissions
3. Govern unemployment compensation
Action meetings
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Debrief meeting
Listening
4. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Brainstorming
Stress
Time Management
Accountability
5. The person for whom the communication is intended
Root cause
Standard
Information receiver
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
6. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Information receiver
Terminable acts
Sales projections
Wage
7. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Employee absence policy
Meeting
Strategic priority
Arbitration
8. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Individual performance of objectives
Information receiver
Documentation
Objective
9. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Voluntary termination
Problem-solving meetings
Strategic priority
Professional Development
10. 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
Deployment chart
Personal treatment
Semivariable costs
Brainstorming
11. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Problem-solving meetings
Self-disclosure
Crew schedule
Self-directed teams
12. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Brainstorming
Structured exit interview
Employee absence policy
Salaries
13. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Standard
Debrief meeting
Stress
Problem solving
14. 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
Salaries
Unstructured exit interview
Core values
Structured exit interview
15. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Message context
Communication
Negotiation
Message channel
16. Costs that management can control
Message channel
Problem solving
Individual performance of objectives
Controllable costs
17. Meetings that share communication
Self-disclosure
SWOT analysis
Information meetings
Core values
18. Meetings that are scheduled on a regular basis between the employee and employer to discuss the employee's job performance and additional pay - if any - for the coming year
Nepotism
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Performance review cycles
Employee absence policy
19. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Controllable costs
Standard
Compensation
20. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Networking
Information meetings
Exit interview
Standard
21. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Master schedule
Employee absence policy
Standard
Structured exit interview
22. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Structured exit interview
Ground rules
Empathy
Individual performance of objectives
23. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Individual performance of objectives
Brainstorming
Bonuses
Salaries
24. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Forming
Organizational goals
Vision Statement
25. 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)
Next steps
Alternative
Internal communication
26. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Mentor
Measurable results
Control
Benchmark
27. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Master schedule
Mentor
Forming
Decoding
28. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Informal communication
Certification
Commissions
Contact list
29. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Progressive disciplinary action
Payroll standards
Call/emergency meetings
Goal
30. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Cross-functional team
Self-disclosure
Contingency plan
Professionalism
31. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Nepotism
Crew schedule
Action item
Problem solving
32. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Storming
Warm-up activity
Message channel
Unpreventable crisis
33. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Performance standard
Nonverbal communication
Covers
Delegation
34. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Vision Statement
Control
Crew schedule
Controllable costs
35. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Accountability
Interpersonal communication
Interfunctional team
Teamwork
36. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Informal communication
Crew schedule
SWOT analysis
Standard
37. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Interpersonal communication
Goal
Team
Norming
38. 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
Exit interview
Message context
Favoritism
39. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Master schedule
Conflict resolution
Professionalism
Performance standard
40. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Departmental/team objectives
Certification
Professional Development
Action meetings
41. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Conflict resolution
Parking lot
Alternative
Action item
42. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Self-disclosure
Cross-training
Personal treatment
Message channel
43. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Information meetings
Master schedule
Benchmark
Agenda
44. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Merit pay
Networking
Action meetings
Floaters
45. Costs that management cannot control
Noncontrollable costs
Benchmark
Information receiver
Documentation
46. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Mentor
Control
Favoritism
Problem-solving team
47. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Stress Management
Crew schedule
Control
Mission Statement
48. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Parking lot
Sexual harassment
Objective
Performance standard
49. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Facilitator
Mission Statement
Nepotism
Involuntary termination
50. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Nonverbal communication
Action item
Arbitration
Stress Management