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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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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. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Performance review cycles
Strategic priority
Evacuation
Self-disclosure
2. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Affection
Mediation
Decoding
Evacuation
3. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Measurable results
SWOT analysis
Cross-functional team
Formal communication
4. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Action item
Professional Development
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Leadership
5. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Crew schedule
Facilitator
Documentation
Floaters
6. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Problem solving
Nepotism
Scheduling
Communication
7. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Empathy
Brainstorming meetings
Principles
Self-directed teams
8. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Documentation
Self-directed teams
Informal communication
Spin
9. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Sexual harassment
Call/emergency meetings
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Controllable costs
10. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Progressive disciplinary action
Personal treatment
Commissions
Interpersonal communication
11. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Nonverbal communication
Employee absence policy
Forming
Motivation
12. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Performing
Storming
Problem-solving meetings
Meeting
13. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Communication
Semivariable costs
Controllable costs
Storming
14. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Interfunctional team
Brainstorming
Vision Statement
15. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Decoding
Delegation
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
16. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Inclusion
Deployment chart
Unstructured exit interview
Organizational communication
17. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Individual performance of objectives
Environmental noise
Sales projections
Delegation
18. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Internal communication
Core values
Nonverbal communication
Time-off request policy
19. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Problem-solving team
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Deployment chart
Management
20. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Deployment chart
Meeting
Employee absence policy
Standard
21. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Structured exit interview
Management schedule
Action meetings
Merit pay
22. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Debrief meeting
Stress
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Team
23. 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
Problem-solving meetings
Motivation
Supporting
Departmental/team objectives
24. 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
Problem solving
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Sexual harassment
Performance review cycles
25. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Supporting
Vision Statement
Self-directed teams
Organizational goals
26. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Leadership
Accountability
Planning
Budget
27. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Root cause
Documentation
Floaters
Preventable crisis
28. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Performance standard
Delegation
Brainstorming
Professionalism
29. Meetings that share communication
Information meetings
Parking lot
Team
Benchmark
30. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Problem-solving team
Employee absence policy
Control
Performance standard
31. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Problem-solving team
Action item
Cross-training
Strategic priority
32. 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
Certification
Problem
Commissions
Action meetings
33. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Conflict resolution
Organizational communication
Mentor
Floaters
34. Identifying what tasks - actions - and other events need to happen as a result of the meeting - as well as setting a date and time for the next meeting
Crisis
Next steps
Professional Development
Meeting
35. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Self-directed teams
Exit interview
Decoding
Accountability
36. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Unpreventable crisis
Brainstorming
Action meetings
Action plan
37. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Cross-training
Objective
Mission Statement
Evacuation
38. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Commissions
Conflict resolution
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Unpreventable crisis
39. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Facilitator
Affection
Team
40. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Encoding
Directing
Listening
Problem-solving team
41. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Crisis
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Floaters
Action item
42. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Environmental noise
Commissions
Mentor
Teamwork
43. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Forming
Shift leaders
Voluntary termination
Merit pay
44. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Communication
Inclusion
Action item
Professional Development
45. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Formal communication
Contact list
Information sender
Motivation
46. A conversation without prepared questions
Unstructured exit interview
Favoritism
Internal communication
Alternative
47. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Informal communication
Organizational communication
Collective bargaining agreement
Workplace Ethics
48. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Message
Media policy
Formal communication
Norming
49. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Informal communication
Crew schedule
Employee absence policy
Involuntary termination
50. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Accountability
Ground rules
Forming
Contact list