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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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1. 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
Certification
Brainstorming
Motivation
Voluntary termination
2. A question or situation that needs an answer or a solution
Problem
Alternative
Leadership
Action item
3. Govern unemployment compensation
Time Management
Wage
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Salaries
4. All aspects of the project are evaluated
Crisis
Debrief meeting
Professionalism
Teamwork
5. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Collective bargaining agreement
Self-disclosure
Historical sales information
Delegation
6. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Control
Sales projections
Problem-solving model
Budget
7. A document outlining specific actions to take in the event of an emergency - crisis - or unexpected event
Contingency plan
Performance review cycles
Professionalism
Master schedule
8. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Interfunctional team
Certification
Norming
Self-disclosure
9. Costs that management can control
Information sender
Controllable costs
Work styles
Documentation
10. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Empathy
Encoding
Departmental/team objectives
Contact list
11. A strategy of steps to carry out so that a problem does not recur
Work styles
Action plan
Interpersonal communication
Objective
12. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Budget
Semivariable costs
Environmental noise
Facilitator
13. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Time Management
Terminable acts
Control
Contingency plan
14. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Payroll standards
Media policy
Root cause
Unstructured exit interview
15. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Self-disclosure
Inclusion
Vision Statement
Mission Statement
16. Personal characteristics that are work-related
Action item
Work styles
Compensation
Benchmark
17. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Standard
Structured exit interview
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Voluntary termination
18. 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
Individual performance of objectives
Motivation
Minutes
Documentation
19. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Standard
Documentation
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Nepotism
20. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Brainstorming meetings
Voluntary termination
Goal
Environmental noise
21. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Goal
Information sender
Payroll standards
Control
22. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Message context
Favoritism
Measurable results
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
23. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Message
Call/emergency meetings
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Action meetings
24. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Control
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Shift leaders
Organizational goals
25. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Inclusion
Forming
Individual performance of objectives
Problem-solving meetings
26. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Core values
Progressive disciplinary action
Crew schedule
Forming
27. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Bonuses
Self-directed teams
Accountability
Organizational goals
28. A potential solution to a problem
Directing
Historical sales information
Alternative
Agenda
29. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Collective bargaining agreement
Minutes
Alternative
Encoding
30. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Workplace Ethics
Payroll standards
Facilitator
Compensation
31. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Management schedule
Collective bargaining agreement
Principles
Terminable acts
32. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Master schedule
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Warm-up activity
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
33. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Time Management
Affection
Merit pay
Historical sales information
34. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Informal communication
Storming
Brainstorming
Teamwork
35. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Negotiation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Motivation
Sexual harassment
36. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Evacuation
Information sender
Sales projections
Message channel
37. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Arbitration
Employee absence policy
SWOT analysis
Norming
38. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Individual performance of objectives
Information meetings
Root cause
Organizational goals
39. 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
Next steps
Information meetings
Performance standard
Directing
40. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Wage
Historical sales information
Conflict resolution
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
41. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Objective
Action item
Terminable acts
Standard
42. Statements of desired results
Professionalism
Agenda
Payroll standards
Goal
43. A catastrophe that cannot be stopped from happening
Employee absence policy
Unpreventable crisis
Departmental/team objectives
Brainstorming
44. A chart that shows which days and times the management staff is expected to work
Progressive disciplinary action
Compensation
Certification
Management schedule
45. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Departmental/team objectives
Mentor
Motivators/Satisfiers
Performance review cycles
46. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Cross-training
Planning
Time Management
Merit pay
47. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Problem-solving model
Time-off request policy
Benchmark
Standard
48. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Stress
Meeting
Compensation
Value Statement
49. The medium through which the message will be communicated
Professional Development
Media policy
Message channel
Team
50. A thought-out process presented in a logical sequence - which must be followed to arrive at a reasonable conclusion
Formal communication
Commissions
Problem solving
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