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HRI Certification
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1. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Mediation
Management
Warm-up activity
Favoritism
2. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Problem-solving team
Delegation
Salaries
Information sender
3. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Delegation
Floaters
Facilitator
Action item
4. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Encoding
Action plan
Standard
Deployment chart
5. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Covers
Arbitration
Alternative
Deployment chart
6. 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
Teamwork
Problem-solving meetings
Internal communication
Next steps
7. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Leadership
Sexual harassment
Nepotism
Controllable costs
8. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Conflict resolution
Strategic priority
Alternative
Cross-functional team
9. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Scheduling
Self-directed teams
Crisis
Strategic priority
10. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Floaters
Problem-solving model
Empathy
Collective bargaining agreement
11. Developing the message to be sent
Ground rules
Encoding
Networking
Organizational communication
12. The environment that a message travels through
Problem-solving meetings
Action item
Minutes
Message context
13. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Personal treatment
Warm-up activity
Involuntary termination
Problem-solving team
14. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Work styles
Brainstorming
Unpreventable crisis
Wage
15. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Measurable results
Budget
Brainstorming
Team
16. 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
Spin
Motivation
Historical sales information
Formal communication
17. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Salaries
Teamwork
Professional Development
Meeting
18. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Arbitration
Delegation
Action item
Parking lot
19. A conversation without prepared questions
Listening
Unstructured exit interview
Documentation
Mediation
20. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Communication
Brainstorming
Message context
Time-off request policy
21. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Work styles
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Team
Personal treatment
22. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Self-directed teams
Management schedule
Favoritism
Message context
23. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Action plan
Historical sales information
Message channel
Problem-solving meetings
24. 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
Unstructured exit interview
Brainstorming
Involuntary termination
Problem
25. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Salaries
SWOT analysis
Voluntary termination
Information sender
26. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Conflict resolution
Encoding
Call/emergency meetings
Employee absence policy
27. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Communication
Teamwork
Controllable costs
28. 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
Standard
Internal communication
Exit interview
Directing
29. 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
Professional Development
Favoritism
Strategic priority
Core values
30. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Crew schedule
Evacuation
Directing
Self-disclosure
31. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Departmental/team objectives
Forming
Spin
Exit interview
32. Those costs that have both a fixed and variable element - such that one part will not change as sales volume changes - whereas the other part will change
Problem-solving model
Merit pay
Semivariable costs
Goal
33. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Stress Management
Arbitration
Meeting
Payroll standards
34. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Interpersonal communication
Performance review cycles
Collective bargaining agreement
Media policy
35. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Root cause
Accountability
Forming
Arbitration
36. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Ground rules
Compensation
Semivariable costs
Collective bargaining agreement
37. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Progressive disciplinary action
Nepotism
Controllable costs
38. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Merit pay
Bonuses
Objective
Brainstorming meetings
39. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Message channel
Standard
Terminable acts
Commissions
40. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Encoding
Delegation
Networking
Terminable acts
41. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Media policy
Standard
Organizational goals
Management
42. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Standard
Goal
Networking
Commissions
43. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Empathy
Supporting
Historical sales information
Debrief meeting
44. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Performing
Work styles
Affection
45. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Nonverbal communication
Departmental/team objectives
Historical sales information
Stress
46. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Problem solving
Vision Statement
Parking lot
Stress
47. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Mission Statement
Organizational communication
Performance review cycles
Contingency plan
48. Costs that management can control
Unstructured exit interview
Controllable costs
Deployment chart
Interpersonal communication
49. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Stress
Personal treatment
Cross-functional team
Merit pay
50. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Standard
Deployment chart
Stress Management
Accountability
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