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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. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Crisis
Debrief meeting
Delegation
Progressive disciplinary action
2. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Core values
Warm-up activity
Mission Statement
Unpreventable crisis
3. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Strategic priority
Historical sales information
Interfunctional team
Negotiation
4. Any unwelcome sexual advance - request for sexual favors - or any conduct of a sexual nature
Supporting
Listening
Sexual harassment
Delegation
5. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Certification
Management schedule
Bonuses
Team
6. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Information sender
Mediation
Message
Performing
7. Meetings that are scheduled on a regular basis between the employee and employer to discuss the employee's job performance and additional pay - if any - for the coming year
Motivation
Contact list
Performance review cycles
Problem solving
8. Outcomes that can be assessed by some means within the areas of performance - learning - and perception
Employee absence policy
Cross-training
Measurable results
Deployment chart
9. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Listening
Message channel
Self-directed teams
Facilitator
10. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Informal communication
Value Statement
Leadership
Motivation
11. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Certification
Personal treatment
Employee absence policy
Exit interview
12. Connecting with several people to build relationships that may result in career advancement - industry updates and knowledge or career enhancements
Motivation
Networking
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Affection
13. Developing the message to be sent
Encoding
Compensation
Organizational goals
Mission Statement
14. A binding contract formed from the pay ranges - along with other working conditions agreed to by both management and labor
Cross-training
Collective bargaining agreement
Commissions
Brainstorming meetings
15. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Cross-functional team
Management
Master schedule
16. 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
Compensation
Motivation
Professional Development
Terminable acts
17. The ability to inspire and motivate employees to behave in accordance with the vision of an organization and to accomplish the organization's goals
Empathy
Leadership
Shift leaders
Cross-training
18. The main connection between the sender and receiver
Information meetings
Arbitration
Message
Meeting
19. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Agenda
Problem-solving meetings
Empathy
Standard
20. Created for the specific purpose of solving an immediate problem
Problem-solving meetings
Problem
Problem-solving team
Problem solving
21. Set by management to ensure the operation's profitability
Collective bargaining agreement
Payroll standards
Crew schedule
Work styles
22. Guidelines for conduct that have enduring and lasting value to a society or organization
Principles
Performance review cycles
Voluntary termination
Sexual harassment
23. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Stress
Interfunctional team
Problem-solving model
24. Further refine and divide the organizational goals and departmental objectives into smaller components that focus on an individual's contribution
Benchmark
Merit pay
Media policy
Individual performance of objectives
25. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Mediation
Motivators/Satisfiers
Brainstorming
Problem-solving model
26. Costs that management cannot control
Shift leaders
Parking lot
Message channel
Noncontrollable costs
27. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Message channel
Organizational goals
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Benchmark
28. 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
Departmental/team objectives
Professionalism
Stress Management
Organizational communication
29. The environment that a message travels through
Personal treatment
Information sender
Negotiation
Message context
30. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Unstructured exit interview
Motivation
Internal communication
Information receiver
31. A template used for creating weekly employee schedules
Commissions
Informal communication
Facilitator
Master schedule
32. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Negotiation
Merit pay
Floaters
Evacuation
33. Refers specifically to the pay that an employee receives as a result of working for the organization and is a subcategory to compensation
Merit pay
Information sender
Wage
Professional Development
34. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Sales projections
Teamwork
Measurable results
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
35. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Root cause
Vision Statement
Control
Time-off request policy
36. The procedure and guidelines for employees to follow when they want time off from work
Time-off request policy
Nonverbal communication
Cross-functional team
Vision Statement
37. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Sales projections
Motivation
Scheduling
Salaries
38. Handing a task over to a subordinate and assigning either authority - responsibility - or both to that person to carry out a specific activity
Professionalism
Decoding
Delegation
Formal communication
39. Differs from other forms of communication in that there are usually only a few participants involved (often just two people) - the individuals are in close proximity to each other as shown - and the feedback is immediate
Stress
Departmental/team objectives
Interpersonal communication
Nepotism
40. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Planning
Merit pay
Organizational communication
Norming
41. Dollar amounts in addition to the regular wage and salary
Sexual harassment
Bonuses
Performance review cycles
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
42. Refers not only to a person demonstrating exceptional industry skills and knowledge but also consistently conducting themselves with high standards
Alternative
Professionalism
Internal communication
Root cause
43. Refers to the way in which managers interact with staff and the value system that governs their daily conduct
Personal treatment
Ground rules
Measurable results
Inclusion
44. The action or situation that initiates the problem
SWOT analysis
Forming
Root cause
Documentation
45. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Mission Statement
Exit interview
Control
Objective
46. The person for whom the communication is intended
Root cause
Management schedule
Information receiver
Teamwork
47. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Progressive disciplinary action
Debrief meeting
Mentor
Problem solving
48. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Standard
Unstructured exit interview
Problem-solving meetings
Structured exit interview
49. 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
Networking
Collective bargaining agreement
Noncontrollable costs
50. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Empathy
Performance review cycles
Inclusion
Documentation