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HRI Certification
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certifications
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hri
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. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Cross-training
Nonverbal communication
Organizational communication
Interpersonal communication
2. Costs that management cannot control
Cross-training
Formal communication
Noncontrollable costs
Control
3. A conversation without prepared questions
Root cause
Progressive disciplinary action
Networking
Unstructured exit interview
4. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Floaters
Spin
Call/emergency meetings
Problem-solving model
5. Meetings that share communication
Delegation
Professionalism
Meeting
Information meetings
6. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Budget
Next steps
Minutes
Arbitration
7. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Spin
Bonuses
Merit pay
Documentation
8. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Sexual harassment
Terminable acts
Stress
Ground rules
9. 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
Compensation
Certification
Unstructured exit interview
Wage
10. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Time-off request policy
Performing
Problem solving
Objective
11. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Control
Noncontrollable costs
Crew schedule
Stress Management
12. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Management schedule
Action meetings
Measurable results
Collective bargaining agreement
13. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Interfunctional team
Information receiver
Work styles
Sexual harassment
14. Costs that management can control
Information sender
Controllable costs
Listening
Time-off request policy
15. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Budget
Accountability
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Information sender
16. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Performance standard
Terminable acts
Contingency plan
Informal communication
17. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Stress
Action plan
Team
Interfunctional team
18. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Problem solving
Professional Development
Debrief meeting
Motivators/Satisfiers
19. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Nonverbal communication
Information sender
Call/emergency meetings
Goal
20. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Forming
Conflict resolution
Value Statement
Ground rules
21. 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
Networking
Core values
Action item
Alternative
22. Statements of desired results
Goal
Agenda
Message channel
Voluntary termination
23. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Structured exit interview
Self-disclosure
Storming
Floaters
24. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Structured exit interview
Mediation
Arbitration
Employee absence policy
25. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Inclusion
Sexual harassment
Objective
26. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Contingency plan
Communication
Evacuation
Professionalism
27. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Warm-up activity
Budget
Media policy
Terminable acts
28. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Wage
Directing
Mission Statement
Stress
29. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Salaries
Noncontrollable costs
Crisis
Controllable costs
30. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Scheduling
Wage
Payroll standards
Contact list
31. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Formal communication
Performance review cycles
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Mediation
32. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Value Statement
Alternative
Management schedule
Budget
33. The environment that a message travels through
Root cause
Unstructured exit interview
Sales projections
Message context
34. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Strategic priority
Compensation
Goal
Self-disclosure
35. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Bonuses
Collective bargaining agreement
Information meetings
Environmental noise
36. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Scheduling
Motivation
Message channel
Standard
37. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Exit interview
Historical sales information
Root cause
Problem-solving team
38. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Planning
SWOT analysis
Problem-solving model
Value Statement
39. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Strategic priority
Performance standard
Departmental/team objectives
Salaries
40. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Environmental noise
Storming
Benchmark
41. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
SWOT analysis
Benchmark
Exit interview
Contact list
42. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Professionalism
Motivation
Time Management
Performing
43. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Planning
Forming
Historical sales information
Work styles
44. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Payroll standards
Facilitator
Agenda
Message channel
45. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Leadership
Value Statement
Principles
Inclusion
46. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Internal communication
Semivariable costs
Commissions
Payroll standards
47. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Collective bargaining agreement
Meeting
Warm-up activity
Action plan
48. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Information sender
Preventable crisis
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Interpersonal communication
49. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Individual performance of objectives
Bonuses
Team
Preventable crisis
50. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
SWOT analysis
Unstructured exit interview
Unpreventable crisis
Involuntary termination