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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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. Process in which a neutral third party facilitates a discussion of difficult issues and negotiates an agreement
Mediation
Message context
Agenda
Measurable results
2. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Action item
Controllable costs
Time Management
Standard
3. Refers to the need to exercise leadership and apply authority over others
Mentor
Control
Planning
Self-directed teams
4. Describes what an organization wants to become and why it exists
Nonverbal communication
Team
Vision Statement
Standard
5. Costs that management cannot control
Brainstorming
Departmental/team objectives
Noncontrollable costs
Planning
6. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Salaries
Affection
Wage
Message channel
7. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Covers
Brainstorming
Unpreventable crisis
Negotiation
8. The person for whom the communication is intended
Message channel
Organizational goals
Information receiver
Teamwork
9. A law that requires all employers to pay employees minimum wage plus overtime for any hours worked over forty per week
Nonverbal communication
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Standard
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
10. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Scheduling
Work styles
Merit pay
Meeting
11. A list of topics that will be reviewed or dealt with at a meeting
Message context
Warm-up activity
Agenda
Personal treatment
12. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Interfunctional team
Standard
Delegation
Affection
13. A conversation without prepared questions
Supporting
Unstructured exit interview
Organizational communication
Performing
14. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Environmental noise
Interfunctional team
Forming
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
15. A report written by management reiterating the problem and its solution
SWOT analysis
Documentation
Brainstorming meetings
Semivariable costs
16. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Evacuation
Informal communication
Wage
Interfunctional team
17. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Sexual harassment
Information meetings
Objective
Workplace Ethics
18. A catastrophe that can be precluded from happening
Empathy
Value Statement
Vision Statement
Preventable crisis
19. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Next steps
SWOT analysis
Performance review cycles
Crew schedule
20. The process of sending and receiving information by talk - gestures - or writing for some type of response or action
Value Statement
Empathy
Communication
Unpreventable crisis
21. Govern unemployment compensation
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Performance review cycles
Certification
Problem
22. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Interfunctional team
Commissions
Voluntary termination
Sales projections
23. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Norming
Inclusion
Meeting
Problem-solving meetings
24. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Professionalism
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Collective bargaining agreement
Core values
25. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Affection
Meeting
Compensation
Formal communication
26. These objectives link to the organizational goals and help produce the desired outcome
Departmental/team objectives
Certification
Personal treatment
Time-off request policy
27. The standards of conduct or set of values and principles an individual or organization applies to work
Internal communication
Workplace Ethics
Organizational goals
Affection
28. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Facilitator
Planning
Individual performance of objectives
Inclusion
29. Represent a select few of the highest concerns of the company
Next steps
Message context
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Strategic priority
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
Organizational communication
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Certification
Sexual harassment
31. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Self-disclosure
Nonverbal communication
Storming
Problem solving
32. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Empathy
Contingency plan
Arbitration
Structured exit interview
33. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Team
Vision Statement
Planning
Professional Development
34. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Organizational communication
Problem-solving model
Alternative
Stress
35. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Unpreventable crisis
Control
Norming
Compensation
36. Someone who can play the role of a wise advisor for you
Stress
Departmental/team objectives
Warm-up activity
Mentor
37. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Involuntary termination
Organizational goals
Interpersonal communication
Time Management
38. 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
Organizational communication
Performance review cycles
Involuntary termination
Delegation
39. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Commissions
Call/emergency meetings
Merit pay
Action meetings
40. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Interfunctional team
Decoding
Strategic priority
Empathy
41. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Cross-training
Departmental/team objectives
Evacuation
Wage
42. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Value Statement
Stress
Payroll standards
Media policy
43. Statements of desired results
Performance standard
Control
Goal
Debrief meeting
44. Refines the vision statement by stating the purpose of the organization to employees and customers
Mission Statement
Decoding
Wage
Listening
45. 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
Objective
Message
Informal communication
Management
46. A process for developing employees' abilities to do tasks other than the ones they are regularly assigned to do
Motivators/Satisfiers
Mentor
Scheduling
Cross-training
47. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Problem-solving team
Performance review cycles
Alternative
Value Statement
48. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Voluntary termination
Internal communication
Self-disclosure
Mediation
49. Costs that management can control
Departmental/team objectives
Employee absence policy
Controllable costs
Preventable crisis
50. Meetings in which the purpose is to generate a list of ideas or creative solutions to an issue confronting the organization
Problem-solving model
Professionalism
Scheduling
Brainstorming meetings