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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. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Brainstorming meetings
Decoding
Supporting
Control
2. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Exit interview
Message channel
Time-off request policy
Sexual harassment
3. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Nepotism
Motivation
Leadership
Brainstorming
4. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Self-disclosure
Problem-solving team
Crew schedule
Delegation
5. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Wage
Facilitator
Merit pay
Professionalism
6. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Root cause
Organizational communication
Meeting
Performance standard
7. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Encoding
Conflict resolution
Progressive disciplinary action
Environmental noise
8. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Action plan
Personal treatment
Management
Motivators/Satisfiers
9. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Evacuation
Departmental/team objectives
Voluntary termination
Empathy
10. The environment that a message travels through
Message context
Exit interview
Structured exit interview
Semivariable costs
11. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Time-off request policy
Agenda
Scheduling
Internal communication
12. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Informal communication
Message context
Organizational communication
Minutes
13. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Problem-solving meetings
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Performing
Core values
14. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Goal
Leadership
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Individual performance of objectives
15. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Favoritism
Problem
Objective
Storming
16. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Negotiation
Information meetings
Employee absence policy
Forming
17. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Objective
Mediation
Self-disclosure
Norming
18. 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
Shift leaders
Principles
Core values
Structured exit interview
19. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Documentation
Communication
Payroll standards
Self-disclosure
20. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Delegation
Goal
Planning
Self-directed teams
21. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Message channel
Management schedule
Facilitator
Wage
22. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Root cause
Problem-solving meetings
Time Management
Stress Management
23. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Unpreventable crisis
Floaters
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Mentor
24. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Action meetings
Teamwork
Stress Management
Deployment chart
25. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Warm-up activity
Benchmark
Exit interview
Documentation
26. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Salaries
Message context
Stress
Management
27. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Networking
Workplace Ethics
Decoding
Personal treatment
28. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Principles
Stress
Mentor
Delegation
29. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Accountability
Directing
Problem solving
Ground rules
30. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Motivators/Satisfiers
Leadership
Control
Favoritism
31. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Root cause
Employee absence policy
Work styles
Delegation
32. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Sales projections
Agenda
Problem
Vision Statement
33. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Controllable costs
Conflict resolution
Ground rules
Unpreventable crisis
34. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Arbitration
Next steps
Crew schedule
Commissions
35. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Nonverbal communication
Networking
Motivation
Goal
36. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Leadership
Supporting
Control
Contingency plan
37. The person for whom the communication is intended
Unpreventable crisis
Information receiver
Forming
Ground rules
38. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Wage
Preventable crisis
Terminable acts
Controllable costs
39. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Warm-up activity
Unpreventable crisis
Informal communication
40. 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
Measurable results
Involuntary termination
Forming
Self-directed teams
41. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Management schedule
Deployment chart
Delegation
Historical sales information
42. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Teamwork
Problem
Master schedule
Covers
43. 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
Wage
Arbitration
Teamwork
Motivation
44. 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
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
SWOT analysis
Directing
Merit pay
45. Meals to be served
Payroll standards
Covers
Accountability
Cross-training
46. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Conflict resolution
Information receiver
Control
47. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Meeting
Networking
Crisis
48. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Action plan
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Negotiation
Management schedule
49. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Organizational goals
Listening
Master schedule
Vision Statement
50. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Encoding
Motivation
Arbitration
Action meetings