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HRI Certification
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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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1. 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
Documentation
Directing
Semivariable costs
Parking lot
2. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Management
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Minutes
Contingency plan
3. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Nepotism
Deployment chart
Leadership
Problem-solving team
4. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Formal communication
Delegation
Floaters
Communication
5. The person for whom the communication is intended
Information receiver
Decoding
Parking lot
Message channel
6. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Organizational goals
Norming
Accountability
Semivariable costs
7. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Vision Statement
Objective
Organizational goals
Shift leaders
8. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Problem-solving meetings
Sexual harassment
Accountability
Problem
9. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Payroll standards
Communication
Standard
Debrief meeting
10. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Parking lot
Cross-functional team
Payroll standards
Personal treatment
11. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Time Management
Crisis
Message
Evacuation
12. Refers to the need to develop relationships with people as individuals or in groups
Stress Management
Internal communication
Affection
Budget
13. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Merit pay
Call/emergency meetings
Individual performance of objectives
Arbitration
14. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Inclusion
Delegation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Call/emergency meetings
15. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Unstructured exit interview
Motivation
Brainstorming
Inclusion
16. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Strategic priority
Professional Development
Voluntary termination
Affection
17. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Planning
Strategic priority
Contingency plan
Departmental/team objectives
18. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Action plan
Nonverbal communication
Internal communication
19. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Action plan
Internal communication
Message
20. Meetings that share communication
Sales projections
Affection
Objective
Information meetings
21. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Historical sales information
Value Statement
Informal communication
Performing
22. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Self-directed teams
Mediation
Leadership
Arbitration
23. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Control
Cross-functional team
Performing
Exit interview
24. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Wage
Negotiation
Contact list
Warm-up activity
25. The environment that a message travels through
Message context
Individual performance of objectives
Performance standard
Root cause
26. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Accountability
Problem solving
Bonuses
Parking lot
27. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Bonuses
Floaters
Master schedule
Crew schedule
28. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Problem solving
Problem-solving model
Departmental/team objectives
Commissions
29. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Spin
Self-directed teams
Salaries
Problem solving
30. Statements of desired results
Goal
Benchmark
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Information meetings
31. 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
Motivation
Strategic priority
Conflict resolution
Encoding
32. 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
Progressive disciplinary action
SWOT analysis
Media policy
Involuntary termination
33. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Communication
Planning
Preventable crisis
Measurable results
34. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Stress
Delegation
Brainstorming meetings
Next steps
35. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Planning
Favoritism
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Debrief meeting
36. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Alternative
Delegation
Meeting
Communication
37. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Norming
Call/emergency meetings
Cross-training
Formal communication
38. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Environmental noise
Mediation
Empathy
Norming
39. 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
Negotiation
Core values
Salaries
Encoding
40. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Benchmark
SWOT analysis
Payroll standards
Progressive disciplinary action
41. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Work styles
Delegation
Call/emergency meetings
Information meetings
42. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Time Management
Management
Problem
Action plan
43. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Self-disclosure
Certification
Budget
Scheduling
44. 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
Brainstorming
Stress Management
Organizational communication
Shift leaders
45. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Stress Management
Spin
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Crisis
46. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Salaries
Workplace Ethics
Voluntary termination
Bonuses
47. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Performance standard
Work styles
Action meetings
Delegation
48. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Cross-training
Next steps
Departmental/team objectives
Standard
49. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Value Statement
Sales projections
Control
Collective bargaining agreement
50. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Decoding
Action meetings
Wage
Professionalism