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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. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Principles
Professionalism
Merit pay
Standard
2. Providing encouragement - listening more than telling - and promoting team discussions
Informal communication
Semivariable costs
Supporting
Goal
3. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Networking
SWOT analysis
Historical sales information
Message context
4. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Directing
Parking lot
Structured exit interview
Brainstorming meetings
5. The state of acting in a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal
Empathy
Listening
Meeting
Teamwork
6. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Next steps
Employee absence policy
Favoritism
Contact list
7. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Terminable acts
Leadership
Vision Statement
Commissions
8. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Internal communication
Norming
Parking lot
Control
9. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Stress Management
Preventable crisis
Principles
Spin
10. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Value Statement
Call/emergency meetings
Agenda
Root cause
11. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Information receiver
Bonuses
Internal communication
Vision Statement
12. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Warm-up activity
Workplace Ethics
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Facilitator
13. Refers to a wide range of processes that encourages solutions to problems that do not require formal grievance steps within an organization
Conflict resolution
Personal treatment
Salaries
Storming
14. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Time Management
Shift leaders
Standard
Objective
15. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Brainstorming
Performance standard
Control
Compensation
16. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Brainstorming meetings
Listening
Forming
Action meetings
17. A process that assists the employee in improving his or her performance - and bringing it up to standards to avoid termination procedures
Progressive disciplinary action
Sexual harassment
Master schedule
Standard
18. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Arbitration
Benchmark
Affection
Progressive disciplinary action
19. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Meeting
Organizational goals
Semivariable costs
Problem solving
20. Composed of employees from different areas who focus on solving problems that impact their particular areas as well as the organization
Contact list
Motivators/Satisfiers
Cross-functional team
Budget
21. A strategy developed in advance for dealing with newspaper - television - and radio reporters regarding the company's reaction to a crisis
Time Management
Next steps
Spin
Media policy
22. 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
Action item
Control
Message context
Minutes
23. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Core values
Action item
Voluntary termination
Time Management
24. Costs that management can control
Alternative
Controllable costs
Management
Organizational goals
25. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Decoding
Team
Self-directed teams
Action item
26. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Bonuses
Collective bargaining agreement
Mission Statement
Commissions
27. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Problem
Agenda
Control
Action meetings
28. Govern unemployment compensation
Planning
Formal communication
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Cross-training
29. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Crew schedule
Performance review cycles
Delegation
Budget
30. 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
Performance standard
Certification
Goal
Benchmark
31. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Preventable crisis
Self-disclosure
Stress Management
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
32. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Organizational communication
Management schedule
Stress
Historical sales information
33. 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
Problem-solving team
Accountability
Vision Statement
Motivation
34. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Planning
Exit interview
Team
Sales projections
35. Costs that management cannot control
Measurable results
Spin
Master schedule
Noncontrollable costs
36. Statements of desired results
Goal
Shift leaders
Arbitration
Strategic priority
37. 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
Minutes
Stress Management
Standard
Call/emergency meetings
38. Simply an account of past sales volumes in a foodservice operation
Work styles
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Historical sales information
Teamwork
39. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Internal communication
Performance standard
Self-disclosure
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
40. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Self-directed teams
Payroll standards
Noncontrollable costs
Problem solving
41. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Certification
Unstructured exit interview
Master schedule
Sexual harassment
42. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Forming
Semivariable costs
Floaters
Cross-training
43. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Decoding
Covers
Message channel
Message context
44. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Historical sales information
Measurable results
Deployment chart
Encoding
45. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Facilitator
Root cause
Bonuses
Objective
46. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Environmental noise
Principles
Workplace Ethics
Debrief meeting
47. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Interfunctional team
Communication
Delegation
Leadership
48. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Networking
Alternative
Forming
Compensation
49. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Encoding
Time-off request policy
Information sender
Cross-training
50. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Mentor
Unpreventable crisis
Interfunctional team
Meeting