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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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1. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Media policy
Arbitration
Parking lot
Interpersonal communication
2. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Deployment chart
Exit interview
Sales projections
Standard
3. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Exit interview
Debrief meeting
Listening
Standard
4. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Warm-up activity
Delegation
Work styles
Exit interview
5. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Performing
Motivators/Satisfiers
Self-disclosure
Self-directed teams
6. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Management
Problem-solving model
Favoritism
Media policy
7. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Information receiver
Organizational goals
Nonverbal communication
Warm-up activity
8. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Message
Empathy
Voluntary termination
Self-directed teams
9. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Voluntary termination
Mission Statement
Minutes
Personal treatment
10. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Organizational goals
Evacuation
Work styles
Exit interview
11. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Delegation
Supporting
Debrief meeting
Action meetings
12. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Facilitator
Networking
Informal communication
Covers
13. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Commissions
Principles
Deployment chart
Meeting
14. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Favoritism
Brainstorming meetings
Networking
Supporting
15. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Floaters
Inclusion
Brainstorming
Workplace Ethics
16. A conversation without prepared questions
Ground rules
Scheduling
Unstructured exit interview
Contingency plan
17. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Networking
Merit pay
Professionalism
Measurable results
18. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Empathy
Self-disclosure
Message channel
Directing
19. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Workplace Ethics
Organizational communication
Strategic priority
Parking lot
20. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Message channel
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Time-off request policy
Leadership
21. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Meeting
Self-disclosure
Motivation
Mediation
22. Developing the message to be sent
Problem
Communication
Encoding
Planning
23. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Employee absence policy
Value Statement
Measurable results
Documentation
24. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Contingency plan
Workplace Ethics
Organizational goals
Problem
25. 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
Delegation
Next steps
Compensation
Deployment chart
26. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Action plan
Informal communication
Decoding
Favoritism
27. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Historical sales information
Directing
Contact list
Standard
28. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Noncontrollable costs
Salaries
Encoding
Parking lot
29. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Compensation
Scheduling
Listening
Performance standard
30. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Unpreventable crisis
Self-directed teams
Compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
31. Meetings that share communication
Interpersonal communication
Information meetings
Storming
Terminable acts
32. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Accountability
Empathy
Voluntary termination
Cross-training
33. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Certification
Listening
Supporting
Informal communication
34. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Problem solving
Salaries
Action meetings
Information meetings
35. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Listening
Problem-solving meetings
Time Management
Preventable crisis
36. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Communication
Information meetings
Problem-solving meetings
Formal communication
37. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Teamwork
Time-off request policy
Problem-solving model
Controllable costs
38. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Evacuation
Negotiation
Principles
Debrief meeting
39. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Core values
Encoding
Nepotism
Management
40. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Meeting
Communication
Master schedule
Internal communication
41. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Budget
Leadership
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Parking lot
42. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Problem-solving team
Controllable costs
Call/emergency meetings
Storming
43. 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
Directing
Problem-solving model
Accountability
Listening
44. 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
Information meetings
Budget
Standard
45. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Decoding
Affection
Sexual harassment
Budget
46. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Evacuation
Commissions
Listening
Message
47. A potential solution to a problem
Favoritism
Problem-solving model
Motivation
Alternative
48. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Preventable crisis
Collective bargaining agreement
Accountability
Forming
49. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Standard
Management schedule
Nonverbal communication
Management
50. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Benchmark
Storming
Organizational goals
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)