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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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 method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Brainstorming
Interfunctional team
Debrief meeting
Next steps
2. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Performance standard
Information sender
Departmental/team objectives
Storming
3. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Interfunctional team
Brainstorming
Mediation
Unstructured exit interview
4. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Action item
Contingency plan
Arbitration
Message context
5. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Information meetings
Problem solving
Personal treatment
Contingency plan
6. 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
Goal
Delegation
Affection
7. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Strategic priority
Directing
Stress Management
Negotiation
8. 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
Call/emergency meetings
Next steps
Self-disclosure
Principles
9. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Delegation
Time Management
Message
Next steps
10. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Time Management
Warm-up activity
Terminable acts
Formal communication
11. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Message channel
Cross-functional team
Performance review cycles
Motivators/Satisfiers
12. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Brainstorming
Problem solving
Nepotism
Forming
13. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Goal
Accountability
Controllable costs
Compensation
14. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Departmental/team objectives
Networking
Message context
Media policy
15. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Standard
Problem
Minutes
Root cause
16. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Leadership
Environmental noise
Facilitator
Strategic priority
17. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Ground rules
Professional Development
Controllable costs
Payroll standards
18. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Scheduling
Information receiver
Covers
Root cause
19. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Principles
Workplace Ethics
Professionalism
20. Meetings that share communication
Crew schedule
Departmental/team objectives
Problem-solving meetings
Information meetings
21. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Warm-up activity
Cross-functional team
Individual performance of objectives
Covers
22. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Problem
Stress
Performance standard
Sales projections
23. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Semivariable costs
Motivation
Strategic priority
Payroll standards
24. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Budget
Teamwork
Employee absence policy
Semivariable costs
25. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Interpersonal communication
Decoding
Benchmark
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
26. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Motivators/Satisfiers
Team
Historical sales information
Supporting
27. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Inclusion
Teamwork
Strategic priority
Voluntary termination
28. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Progressive disciplinary action
Professional Development
Agenda
Cross-training
29. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Parking lot
Motivators/Satisfiers
Team
Informal communication
30. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Contingency plan
Progressive disciplinary action
Inclusion
Unstructured exit interview
31. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Workplace Ethics
Professional Development
Covers
Contact list
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
Cross-training
Work styles
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Certification
33. The ability to plan - organize - direct - staff - control - and evaluate the many functions in a food service organization for the purpose of serving organizational goals
Performance standard
Motivators/Satisfiers
Informal communication
Management
34. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Organizational communication
Leadership
Workplace Ethics
Structured exit interview
35. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Self-disclosure
Contact list
Organizational goals
Call/emergency meetings
36. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Progressive disciplinary action
Terminable acts
Workplace Ethics
37. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Floaters
Formal communication
Standard
Involuntary termination
38. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Evacuation
Commissions
Voluntary termination
Principles
39. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Environmental noise
Root cause
Cross-training
Benchmark
40. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Inclusion
Involuntary termination
Structured exit interview
Interpersonal communication
41. 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
Collective bargaining agreement
Involuntary termination
Compensation
Mentor
42. An official record of key points discussed or covered at a meeting - as well as anything that might have been decided or completed during the meeting
Standard
Minutes
Contingency plan
Master schedule
43. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Parking lot
Meeting
Listening
Problem-solving team
44. 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
Noncontrollable costs
Performance review cycles
Employee absence policy
Documentation
45. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Core values
Brainstorming meetings
Involuntary termination
Work styles
46. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem-solving model
Measurable results
Problem
Workplace Ethics
47. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Informal communication
Noncontrollable costs
Affection
Mission Statement
48. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Professionalism
Merit pay
Mission Statement
Workplace Ethics
49. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Negotiation
Semivariable costs
Delegation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
50. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Information receiver
Information sender
Message channel
Self-disclosure