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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. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Agenda
Performing
Employee absence policy
Cross-training
2. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Merit pay
Formal communication
Listening
Debrief meeting
3. The person for whom the communication is intended
Action item
Information receiver
Parking lot
Motivation
4. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Time-off request policy
Listening
Accountability
Problem
5. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Affection
Media policy
Alternative
Communication
6. A conversation without prepared questions
Message channel
Unstructured exit interview
Mentor
Internal communication
7. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Deployment chart
Structured exit interview
Problem-solving meetings
Debrief meeting
8. 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
Unstructured exit interview
Directing
Arbitration
Inclusion
9. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Formal communication
Floaters
Minutes
Delegation
10. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Vision Statement
Collective bargaining agreement
Delegation
Interfunctional team
11. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Parking lot
Crisis
Commissions
Self-disclosure
12. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Decoding
Performing
Salaries
Workplace Ethics
13. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Commissions
Exit interview
Problem-solving model
Arbitration
14. 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
Debrief meeting
Problem solving
Professionalism
15. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Inclusion
Informal communication
Debrief meeting
Negotiation
16. A potential solution to a problem
Accountability
Forming
Alternative
Benchmark
17. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Standard
Cross-functional team
Brainstorming meetings
Evacuation
18. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Facilitator
Vision Statement
Information meetings
Control
19. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Contact list
Delegation
Accountability
Performance review cycles
20. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Message context
Measurable results
Environmental noise
Time Management
21. 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
Noncontrollable costs
Compensation
Next steps
Meeting
22. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Semivariable costs
Historical sales information
Certification
Stress
23. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Mediation
Floaters
Budget
Standard
24. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Master schedule
Warm-up activity
Organizational communication
Management schedule
25. Meetings that share communication
Next steps
Arbitration
Measurable results
Information meetings
26. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Arbitration
Involuntary termination
Scheduling
27. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Listening
Floaters
Unstructured exit interview
Vision Statement
28. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Norming
Internal communication
Stress
Networking
29. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Directing
Leadership
Internal communication
Norming
30. A specific point associated with an agenda item that needs some type of action performed
Stress
Documentation
Motivation
Action item
31. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Cross-training
Historical sales information
Salaries
Control
32. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Problem-solving team
Forming
Debrief meeting
Facilitator
33. Developing the message to be sent
Encoding
Planning
Semivariable costs
Covers
34. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Accountability
Controllable costs
Cross-functional team
Contact list
35. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Preventable crisis
Principles
Empathy
Master schedule
36. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Exit interview
Performing
Problem solving
Favoritism
37. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Delegation
Management schedule
Message
Problem-solving team
38. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Problem-solving meetings
Warm-up activity
Crew schedule
Deployment chart
39. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Vision Statement
Motivators/Satisfiers
Work styles
Benchmark
40. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Stress
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Action plan
Unpreventable crisis
41. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Strategic priority
Message
Forming
Payroll standards
42. 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
Forming
Noncontrollable costs
Delegation
43. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Merit pay
Performing
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Team
44. Meals to be served
Covers
Brainstorming meetings
Management schedule
Debrief meeting
45. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Standard
Historical sales information
Next steps
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
46. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Networking
Interpersonal communication
Standard
Wage
47. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Information sender
Parking lot
Nonverbal communication
Merit pay
48. 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
Certification
Action meetings
Information sender
Historical sales information
49. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Contingency plan
Spin
Debrief meeting
Inclusion
50. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Nonverbal communication
Negotiation
Structured exit interview
Mediation