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HRI Certification
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certifications
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hri
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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. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Controllable costs
Encoding
Personal treatment
Norming
2. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Decoding
Historical sales information
Stress
Problem-solving team
3. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Alternative
Norming
Progressive disciplinary action
Information receiver
4. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Preventable crisis
Storming
Facilitator
Departmental/team objectives
5. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Departmental/team objectives
Commissions
Documentation
Bonuses
6. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Compensation
Performance review cycles
Measurable results
Communication
7. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Crisis
Problem-solving model
Structured exit interview
Professionalism
8. 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
Accountability
Networking
Covers
9. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Empathy
Encoding
Organizational communication
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
10. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Unstructured exit interview
Negotiation
Interfunctional team
Contact list
11. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Stress
Structured exit interview
Sales projections
Brainstorming
12. A potential solution to a problem
Departmental/team objectives
Standard
Covers
Alternative
13. 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
Goal
Problem solving
Listening
Certification
14. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Goal
Structured exit interview
Meeting
Communication
15. A process managers use to identify what causes stress for them in the workplace as well as in their personal life - and then to apply various strategies to minimize its effects
Action item
Crisis
Parking lot
Stress Management
16. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Bonuses
Formal communication
Salaries
Problem-solving model
17. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Evacuation
Standard
Debrief meeting
Wage
18. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Unpreventable crisis
Organizational communication
Collective bargaining agreement
Progressive disciplinary action
19. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Shift leaders
Noncontrollable costs
Delegation
Commissions
20. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Scheduling
Formal communication
Standard
Structured exit interview
21. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Evacuation
Performing
Nepotism
Problem
22. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Wage
Noncontrollable costs
SWOT analysis
Vision Statement
23. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Inclusion
Merit pay
Root cause
Debrief meeting
24. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Minutes
Professionalism
Employee absence policy
Nonverbal communication
25. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Preventable crisis
Interfunctional team
Certification
Action meetings
26. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Evacuation
Ground rules
Progressive disciplinary action
Nonverbal communication
27. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Networking
Problem solving
Terminable acts
Internal communication
28. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Message channel
Crisis
Action plan
Mediation
29. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Accountability
Contingency plan
Decoding
30. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Norming
Informal communication
Progressive disciplinary action
31. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Shift leaders
Problem-solving model
Mediation
Message
32. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Master schedule
Arbitration
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Standard
33. 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
Principles
Merit pay
Directing
Value Statement
34. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Personal treatment
Payroll standards
Motivators/Satisfiers
Ground rules
35. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Ground rules
Meeting
Exit interview
Call/emergency meetings
36. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Strategic priority
Work styles
Encoding
Motivators/Satisfiers
37. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Management schedule
Media policy
Standard
Delegation
38. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Leadership
Self-disclosure
Parking lot
Meeting
39. Costs that management can control
Core values
Action plan
Controllable costs
Work styles
40. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Arbitration
Delegation
Progressive disciplinary action
Commissions
41. Meals to be served
Covers
Delegation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Spin
42. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Delegation
Environmental noise
Progressive disciplinary action
Crew schedule
43. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Terminable acts
Historical sales information
Controllable costs
Networking
44. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Favoritism
Stress Management
Facilitator
Value Statement
45. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Problem solving
Stress Management
Noncontrollable costs
Alternative
46. The sum of activities a person performs to meet goals and/or to further his or her career
Professional Development
Interpersonal communication
Time-off request policy
Individual performance of objectives
47. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Compensation
Time-off request policy
Value Statement
Collective bargaining agreement
48. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Value Statement
Nepotism
Employee absence policy
Nonverbal communication
49. 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
Problem solving
Objective
Scheduling
Core values
50. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Conflict resolution
Strategic priority
Standard
Time Management