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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Salaries
Self-directed teams
Management
Environmental noise
2. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Performance review cycles
Sexual harassment
Storming
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
3. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Bonuses
Action meetings
Budget
4. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Call/emergency meetings
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Accountability
Conflict resolution
5. A conversation without prepared questions
Directing
Unstructured exit interview
Minutes
Covers
6. Costs that management cannot control
Performance review cycles
Noncontrollable costs
Motivation
Covers
7. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Communication
Media policy
Leadership
Favoritism
8. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Motivation
Arbitration
Measurable results
Standard
9. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Teamwork
Progressive disciplinary action
Decoding
Alternative
10. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Teamwork
Covers
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Bonuses
11. 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
Mediation
Next steps
Accountability
Action plan
12. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Facilitator
Spin
Nonverbal communication
Unpreventable crisis
13. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Self-directed teams
Organizational goals
Evacuation
Involuntary termination
14. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Mentor
Forming
Motivation
Message
15. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Crisis
Meeting
Root cause
Spin
16. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Crew schedule
Motivators/Satisfiers
Deployment chart
Planning
17. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Internal communication
Problem-solving meetings
Information receiver
Budget
18. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Crisis
Floaters
Cross-functional team
Objective
19. Meals to be served
Covers
Contingency plan
Crew schedule
Budget
20. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Personal treatment
Professionalism
Control
Problem-solving meetings
21. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Time-off request policy
Time Management
Call/emergency meetings
Spin
22. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Interpersonal communication
Storming
Documentation
Mediation
23. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Mediation
Work styles
Spin
Involuntary termination
24. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Time Management
Payroll standards
Directing
25. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Standard
Payroll standards
Progressive disciplinary action
Value Statement
26. 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
Mediation
Motivation
Bonuses
Forming
27. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Work styles
Budget
Next steps
Motivators/Satisfiers
28. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Vision Statement
Self-disclosure
Mission Statement
Mentor
29. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Time-off request policy
Master schedule
Collective bargaining agreement
Covers
30. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Brainstorming
Professional Development
Merit pay
Directing
31. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Voluntary termination
Message context
Principles
Facilitator
32. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
Directing
Information meetings
Documentation
Inclusion
33. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Crisis
Floaters
Media policy
Principles
34. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Documentation
Employee absence policy
Principles
Conflict resolution
35. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Workplace Ethics
Message channel
Deployment chart
Cross-functional team
36. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Standard
Warm-up activity
Collective bargaining agreement
Favoritism
37. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Spin
Agenda
Structured exit interview
Management
38. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Mediation
Message context
Deployment chart
Arbitration
39. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Floaters
Objective
Bonuses
40. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Sexual harassment
Self-disclosure
Crew schedule
Brainstorming meetings
41. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Benchmark
Compensation
Commissions
Alternative
42. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Crisis
Favoritism
Professional Development
Cross-functional team
43. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Facilitator
Departmental/team objectives
Team
Stress
44. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Terminable acts
Affection
Vision Statement
45. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Floaters
Performing
Motivators/Satisfiers
Accountability
46. 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
Core values
Stress Management
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Voluntary termination
47. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Vision Statement
Bonuses
Floaters
Conflict resolution
48. The person for whom the communication is intended
Objective
Warm-up activity
Voluntary termination
Information receiver
49. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Action meetings
Goal
Ground rules
Next steps
50. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Performance standard
Personal treatment
Formal communication
Warm-up activity