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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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 potential solution to a problem
Alternative
Supporting
Crew schedule
Exit interview
2. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Nonverbal communication
Benchmark
Call/emergency meetings
Semivariable costs
3. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Terminable acts
Communication
Meeting
Bonuses
4. The environment that a message travels through
Voluntary termination
Professional Development
Message context
Interfunctional team
5. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Employee absence policy
Message channel
Measurable results
Action plan
6. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Organizational goals
Communication
Preventable crisis
Work styles
7. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Unstructured exit interview
Accountability
Planning
Performing
8. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Management schedule
Compensation
Message
Principles
9. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Decoding
Problem-solving model
Commissions
Formal communication
10. Govern unemployment compensation
Information sender
Next steps
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Benchmark
11. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Documentation
Informal communication
Action item
Delegation
12. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Favoritism
Measurable results
Planning
Voluntary termination
13. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Debrief meeting
Problem
Organizational goals
Workplace Ethics
14. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Goal
Management
Motivators/Satisfiers
Personal treatment
15. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Storming
Motivation
Action meetings
16. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Affection
Goal
Problem-solving meetings
Benchmark
17. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Information meetings
Informal communication
Noncontrollable costs
Sales projections
18. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Exit interview
Informal communication
Value Statement
Floaters
19. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Affection
Workplace Ethics
Bonuses
Value Statement
20. Meetings that share communication
Forming
Information meetings
Exit interview
Unstructured exit interview
21. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Action item
Nonverbal communication
Formal communication
Motivation
22. 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
Agenda
Negotiation
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Motivation
23. Statements of desired results
Goal
Sales projections
Message context
Work styles
24. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Action meetings
Unpreventable crisis
Scheduling
Organizational goals
25. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Bonuses
Shift leaders
Personal treatment
26. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Action item
Meeting
Root cause
Accountability
27. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Environmental noise
Performing
Brainstorming meetings
Forming
28. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Arbitration
Information meetings
Problem-solving model
Action meetings
29. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Mentor
Delegation
Exit interview
Time-off request policy
30. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Progressive disciplinary action
Preventable crisis
Objective
Controllable costs
31. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Call/emergency meetings
Information sender
Teamwork
Forming
32. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Management
Merit pay
Historical sales information
Salaries
33. The person for whom the communication is intended
Goal
Information receiver
Message channel
Internal communication
34. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Conflict resolution
Shift leaders
Accountability
Affection
35. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Scheduling
Noncontrollable costs
Negotiation
Semivariable costs
36. Developing the message to be sent
Self-disclosure
Compensation
Exit interview
Encoding
37. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Problem-solving meetings
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Wage
Nepotism
38. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Ground rules
Supporting
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Message context
39. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Affection
Budget
Interfunctional team
Brainstorming
40. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Measurable results
Work styles
Motivators/Satisfiers
Management
41. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Internal communication
Environmental noise
Contact list
Communication
42. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Mentor
Benchmark
Conflict resolution
Noncontrollable costs
43. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Arbitration
Organizational goals
Networking
Vision Statement
44. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Crisis
Interfunctional team
Control
Mediation
45. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Semivariable costs
Delegation
Problem-solving team
Leadership
46. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Facilitator
Agenda
Brainstorming
Personal treatment
47. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Internal communication
Conflict resolution
Covers
48. Costs that management cannot control
Performance standard
Agenda
Noncontrollable costs
Departmental/team objectives
49. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Voluntary termination
Performing
Brainstorming
Action plan
50. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Networking
Unpreventable crisis
Stress Management
Agenda