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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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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. The action or situation that initiates the problem
SWOT analysis
Root cause
Vision Statement
Encoding
2. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Time-off request policy
Planning
Inclusion
Parking lot
3. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Payroll standards
Standard
Information sender
Agenda
4. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Alternative
Management
Forming
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
5. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Informal communication
Collective bargaining agreement
Deployment chart
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
6. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Budget
Departmental/team objectives
Performance review cycles
Organizational communication
7. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Sales projections
Performing
Empathy
Unpreventable crisis
8. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Scheduling
Commissions
Deployment chart
Empathy
9. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Message
Employee absence policy
Historical sales information
Team
10. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Norming
Crew schedule
11. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Unstructured exit interview
Listening
Planning
Message channel
12. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Deployment chart
Next steps
SWOT analysis
Interfunctional team
13. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Wage
Motivators/Satisfiers
Stress
Performance review cycles
14. The norms regarding how meetings are run - how participants should interact - and what behavior is acceptable
Ground rules
Core values
Value Statement
Master schedule
15. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Control
Inclusion
Action plan
16. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Core values
Shift leaders
Work styles
Bonuses
17. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Semivariable costs
Documentation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Internal communication
18. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Formal communication
Structured exit interview
Problem-solving team
Facilitator
19. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Stress Management
Cross-training
Salaries
Networking
20. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Self-directed teams
Semivariable costs
Team
Nepotism
21. Developing the message to be sent
Encoding
Environmental noise
SWOT analysis
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
22. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Workplace Ethics
Arbitration
Motivation
Preventable crisis
23. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Mentor
Information sender
Performance standard
Next steps
24. The ability to plan - organize - direct - staff - control - and evaluate the many functions in a food service organization for the purpose of serving organizational goals
Professionalism
Workplace Ethics
Management
Call/emergency meetings
25. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Bonuses
Standard
Meeting
Objective
26. 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
Next steps
Organizational goals
Listening
Self-disclosure
27. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Mediation
Budget
Semivariable costs
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
28. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Stress Management
Floaters
Action meetings
Evacuation
29. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Spin
Scheduling
Time-off request policy
Team
30. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Action meetings
Benchmark
Delegation
Merit pay
31. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Self-disclosure
Standard
Sales projections
Facilitator
32. Comprised of the numerous messages and information that convey operational procedures - policies - and announcements to a wide variety of audiences
Principles
Arbitration
Semivariable costs
Organizational communication
33. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Bonuses
Cross-training
Contingency plan
Minutes
34. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Professionalism
Decoding
Empathy
Leadership
35. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Contingency plan
Management schedule
Employee absence policy
Noncontrollable costs
36. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Personal treatment
Control
Problem-solving meetings
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
37. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Problem solving
Interpersonal communication
Problem-solving model
Covers
38. Team members can analyze and solve problems effectively together
Principles
Collective bargaining agreement
Performing
Covers
39. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Controllable costs
Call/emergency meetings
Internal communication
Scheduling
40. A conversation without prepared questions
Work styles
Listening
Unstructured exit interview
Core values
41. Costs that management cannot control
Wage
Noncontrollable costs
Problem
Scheduling
42. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Budget
Stress
Leadership
Deployment chart
43. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Management schedule
Payroll standards
Crisis
Interfunctional team
44. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Interpersonal communication
Contingency plan
Standard
Sales projections
45. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Exit interview
Workplace Ethics
Time Management
Floaters
46. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Information sender
Information meetings
Organizational goals
Teamwork
47. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Action plan
Mission Statement
Organizational goals
Commissions
48. Meals to be served
Control
Noncontrollable costs
Covers
Internal communication
49. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Meeting
Brainstorming
Historical sales information
Mission Statement
50. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Next steps
Decoding
Commissions
Storming