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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. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Performance standard
Delegation
Problem-solving meetings
Root cause
2. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Problem-solving meetings
Brainstorming meetings
Value Statement
Master schedule
3. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Favoritism
Action plan
Affection
Certification
4. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Mediation
Problem solving
Involuntary termination
Sales projections
5. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Cross-functional team
Teamwork
Directing
Affection
6. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Action meetings
Mission Statement
Performance review cycles
Floaters
7. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Commissions
Agenda
Terminable acts
Team
8. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Leadership
Organizational communication
Management schedule
Motivators/Satisfiers
9. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Cross-functional team
Ground rules
Debrief meeting
Nepotism
10. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Standard
Voluntary termination
Goal
Information receiver
11. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Control
Collective bargaining agreement
Message context
Documentation
12. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Wage
Strategic priority
Motivation
Message
13. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Norming
Self-directed teams
Measurable results
Individual performance of objectives
14. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Personal treatment
Workplace Ethics
Minutes
Payroll standards
15. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Historical sales information
Delegation
Control
Management schedule
16. 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)
Performing
Stress Management
Agenda
17. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Cross-functional team
Root cause
Nonverbal communication
Bonuses
18. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
SWOT analysis
Deployment chart
Professionalism
Evacuation
19. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Directing
Interfunctional team
Supporting
Favoritism
20. A potential solution to a problem
Vision Statement
Contact list
Workplace Ethics
Alternative
21. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Departmental/team objectives
Environmental noise
Value Statement
Crew schedule
22. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Problem-solving team
Information meetings
Management schedule
Shift leaders
23. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Progressive disciplinary action
Delegation
Performance review cycles
Crisis
24. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Budget
Management schedule
Conflict resolution
Interfunctional team
25. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Collective bargaining agreement
Principles
Workplace Ethics
Departmental/team objectives
26. The environment that a message travels through
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Unpreventable crisis
Controllable costs
Message context
27. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Decoding
Cross-functional team
Minutes
Internal communication
28. Costs that management cannot control
Storming
Control
Floaters
Noncontrollable costs
29. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Mentor
Organizational communication
Vision Statement
Contact list
30. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Stress
Objective
Spin
Alternative
31. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Forming
Workplace Ethics
Principles
Budget
32. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Stress
Forming
Problem-solving model
Work styles
33. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Ground rules
Budget
Strategic priority
Evacuation
34. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Progressive disciplinary action
Forming
Problem
Unstructured exit interview
35. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Documentation
Progressive disciplinary action
Shift leaders
Parking lot
36. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Cross-functional team
Meeting
Problem solving
Information sender
37. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Involuntary termination
Cross-training
Structured exit interview
Nonverbal communication
38. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
SWOT analysis
Terminable acts
Interfunctional team
Standard
39. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Stress
Sales projections
Compensation
Work styles
40. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Crisis
Vision Statement
Stress
Ground rules
41. Statements of desired results
Delegation
Directing
Employee absence policy
Goal
42. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Noncontrollable costs
Structured exit interview
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Sexual harassment
43. Indicates that you have demonstrated a high level of skill and have met specific performance requirements by participating in a rigorous process to become certified
Core values
Certification
Leadership
Norming
44. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Scheduling
Action meetings
Empathy
Measurable results
45. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Work styles
Self-directed teams
Mediation
Agenda
46. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Inclusion
Mission Statement
Work styles
Facilitator
47. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Planning
Merit pay
Encoding
Formal communication
48. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Organizational goals
Planning
Time-off request policy
Inclusion
49. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Problem
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Communication
Internal communication
50. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Progressive disciplinary action
Action plan
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Team