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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. 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
Vision Statement
Departmental/team objectives
Motivation
Terminable acts
2. 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
Controllable costs
Next steps
Evacuation
Covers
3. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Information receiver
SWOT analysis
Professionalism
Planning
4. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Agenda
Control
Environmental noise
Brainstorming meetings
5. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Contingency plan
Media policy
Value Statement
Performance standard
6. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Bonuses
Master schedule
Control
Next steps
7. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Norming
Nepotism
Scheduling
Budget
8. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Spin
Next steps
Bonuses
Call/emergency meetings
9. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Control
Self-directed teams
Planning
Semivariable costs
10. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Organizational goals
Networking
Meeting
Spin
11. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Semivariable costs
Debrief meeting
Value Statement
Problem-solving team
12. A potential solution to a problem
Empathy
Alternative
Time Management
Controllable costs
13. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Standard
Facilitator
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Delegation
14. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Planning
Structured exit interview
Agenda
Action plan
15. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Involuntary termination
Decoding
Sexual harassment
Message
16. Developing the message to be sent
Encoding
Nonverbal communication
Control
Problem solving
17. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Leadership
Standard
Ground rules
Team
18. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Work styles
Personal treatment
Minutes
Mediation
19. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Information meetings
Alternative
Internal communication
Action item
20. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Inclusion
Arbitration
Spin
Work styles
21. 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
Progressive disciplinary action
Exit interview
Involuntary termination
Time Management
22. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Leadership
Controllable costs
Cross-functional team
Structured exit interview
23. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Mentor
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Forming
Organizational communication
24. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Budget
Mediation
Covers
Motivators/Satisfiers
25. The environment that a message travels through
Benchmark
Management
Information sender
Message context
26. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Covers
Problem solving
Involuntary termination
Parking lot
27. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Sales projections
Documentation
Commissions
Progressive disciplinary action
28. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Motivation
Measurable results
Interfunctional team
Cross-functional team
29. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Internal communication
Nepotism
Benchmark
Principles
30. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Team
Sales projections
Wage
Cross-functional team
31. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Networking
Sexual harassment
Alternative
Information sender
32. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Storming
Unpreventable crisis
Personal treatment
Listening
33. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Accountability
Ground rules
Involuntary termination
Personal treatment
34. Meals to be served
Performance review cycles
Favoritism
Covers
Brainstorming meetings
35. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Sexual harassment
Scheduling
Involuntary termination
Minutes
36. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Message context
Formal communication
Benchmark
Ground rules
37. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Work styles
Unpreventable crisis
Scheduling
Objective
38. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Networking
Crew schedule
Departmental/team objectives
Professionalism
39. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Informal communication
Planning
Benchmark
Individual performance of objectives
40. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Historical sales information
Information receiver
Problem
Voluntary termination
41. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Unpreventable crisis
Alternative
Contingency plan
Performance standard
42. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Storming
Action plan
Unpreventable crisis
Stress Management
43. Differs from other forms of communication in that there are usually only a few participants involved (often just two people) - the individuals are in close proximity to each other as shown - and the feedback is immediate
Structured exit interview
Principles
Controllable costs
Interpersonal communication
44. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Interfunctional team
Sales projections
Conflict resolution
Core values
45. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Wage
Personal treatment
Professional Development
Crisis
46. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Accountability
Organizational goals
Problem-solving model
Scheduling
47. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Departmental/team objectives
Value Statement
Crew schedule
Evacuation
48. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Problem-solving team
Covers
Spin
49. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Cross-training
Forming
Performance standard
Stress
50. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Management schedule
Warm-up activity
Empathy
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)