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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.
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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. Actions by an employee that typically cause immediate termination
Problem-solving model
Performance standard
Terminable acts
Management schedule
2. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Nonverbal communication
Interfunctional team
Norming
Accountability
3. 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
Informal communication
Collective bargaining agreement
4. 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
Information sender
Problem-solving model
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Involuntary termination
5. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Spin
Mission Statement
Contact list
Professionalism
6. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Call/emergency meetings
Interfunctional team
Unpreventable crisis
Historical sales information
7. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Nonverbal communication
Performance standard
Voluntary termination
Contingency plan
8. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Mentor
Information meetings
Cross-training
Sexual harassment
9. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Bonuses
Team
Internal communication
Arbitration
10. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Supporting
Management
Exit interview
Mentor
11. A criterion set by management that measures the quality and quantity of an employee's work
Message
Progressive disciplinary action
Action meetings
Performance standard
12. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Professional Development
Forming
Merit pay
Mentor
13. Refers to the need to feel a part of a group
Information receiver
Root cause
Inclusion
Merit pay
14. An official record of key points discussed or covered at a meeting - as well as anything that might have been decided or completed during the meeting
Work styles
Informal communication
Stress Management
Minutes
15. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Stress
Time-off request policy
Nepotism
Management schedule
16. 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
Cross-functional team
Inclusion
Next steps
Listening
17. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Formal communication
Message channel
Personal treatment
Organizational communication
18. Developing the message to be sent
Structured exit interview
Encoding
Conflict resolution
Facilitator
19. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Standard
Meeting
Cross-functional team
Media policy
20. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Noncontrollable costs
Payroll standards
Master schedule
21. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Objective
Organizational goals
Measurable results
Payroll standards
22. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Standard
Warm-up activity
Salaries
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
23. 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
Personal treatment
Control
Master schedule
Semivariable costs
24. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Performing
Norming
Conflict resolution
Voluntary termination
25. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Stress
Salaries
Master schedule
Problem-solving meetings
26. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Media policy
Documentation
Performing
Measurable results
27. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Unpreventable crisis
Noncontrollable costs
Encoding
Contingency plan
28. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Norming
Mentor
Departmental/team objectives
Benchmark
29. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Compensation
Payroll standards
Unstructured exit interview
Value Statement
30. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Teamwork
Brainstorming meetings
Standard
Interpersonal communication
31. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Agenda
Management
Interpersonal communication
Employee absence policy
32. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Personal treatment
Vision Statement
Merit pay
Delegation
33. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Preventable crisis
Objective
Contingency plan
Management schedule
34. 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
Decoding
Certification
Deployment chart
Cross-training
35. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Compensation
Formal communication
Time-off request policy
Progressive disciplinary action
36. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Affection
Meeting
Time-off request policy
Formal communication
37. A potential solution to a problem
Departmental/team objectives
Value Statement
Commissions
Alternative
38. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Unpreventable crisis
Control
Leadership
Facilitator
39. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Media policy
Standard
Action item
Planning
40. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Measurable results
Control
Parking lot
Vision Statement
41. 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
Information receiver
Motivation
Value Statement
Interfunctional team
42. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Contingency plan
Problem
Motivators/Satisfiers
Salaries
43. A conversation without prepared questions
Unstructured exit interview
Floaters
Workplace Ethics
Self-disclosure
44. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Supporting
Norming
Contingency plan
Standard
45. Intact work units of a small group of employees who manage many daily operational issues with little supervision
Self-directed teams
Next steps
Unpreventable crisis
Personal treatment
46. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Norming
Work styles
Workplace Ethics
Message context
47. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Employee absence policy
Brainstorming meetings
Information meetings
Favoritism
48. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Principles
Problem solving
Listening
Call/emergency meetings
49. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Voluntary termination
Action item
Interfunctional team
Professionalism
50. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Structured exit interview
Benchmark
Affection