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HRI Certification
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certifications
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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. The budgeted dollar amount for each type of cost
Performance review cycles
Control
Parking lot
Standard
2. Someone who assists in making the meeting run easier
Arbitration
Benchmark
Delegation
Facilitator
3. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Problem
Involuntary termination
Crew schedule
Root cause
4. The person for whom the communication is intended
Contact list
Evacuation
Information receiver
Favoritism
5. Costs that management cannot control
Noncontrollable costs
Goal
Sexual harassment
Alternative
6. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Scheduling
Measurable results
Certification
Nonverbal communication
7. Teams are getting to know each other - in addition to learning what will be required of them in order to achieve their assigned goal
Forming
Internal communication
Formal communication
Alternative
8. The action or situation that initiates the problem
Inclusion
Evacuation
Root cause
Principles
9. 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
Principles
Compensation
Next steps
Organizational communication
10. These goals focus on broad statements of what the organization as a whole wants to achieve
Noncontrollable costs
Action item
Organizational goals
Controllable costs
11. 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
Performance review cycles
Individual performance of objectives
Objective
Measurable results
12. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Problem-solving team
Motivation
Self-disclosure
Arbitration
13. Costs that management can control
Involuntary termination
Controllable costs
Noncontrollable costs
Voluntary termination
14. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Spin
Individual performance of objectives
Commissions
Environmental noise
15. A quick - interactive activity that prepares people to focus on the meeting and its objectives
Warm-up activity
Control
Interpersonal communication
Performing
16. Expand the responsibilities of a particular group of employees
Media policy
Goal
Action meetings
Interfunctional team
17. Developing the message to be sent
Certification
Encoding
Action plan
Formal communication
18. Any sound that interferes with clear reception
Directing
Arbitration
Cross-functional team
Environmental noise
19. The execution of processes and the use of tools that increase a person's efficiency and productivity
Time Management
Collective bargaining agreement
Interpersonal communication
Payroll standards
20. A federal law that allows eligible employees to take an extended amount of time off for medical and other personal reasons
Affection
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Wage
Individual performance of objectives
21. Employees who - inaddition to their regularly assigned tasks - train new hires and perform other functions assigned by management
Unpreventable crisis
Shift leaders
Nonverbal communication
Problem-solving meetings
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
Minutes
Historical sales information
Storming
Problem solving
23. The environment that a message travels through
Action item
Parking lot
Mission Statement
Message context
24. A process of working with and through others to get a significant task or project completed
Warm-up activity
Delegation
Crisis
Brainstorming meetings
25. A federal law that sets minimum wage - overtime pay - equal pay - record-keeping - and child-labor standards for covered employees
Meeting
SWOT analysis
Mission Statement
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
26. The receiver's process of translating the sender's message into a meaningful form
Covers
Spin
Decoding
Management schedule
27. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Storming
Value Statement
Action meetings
Evacuation
28. A potential solution to a problem
Professionalism
Contact list
Networking
Alternative
29. Discussion between involved people with the goal of reaching an agreement that both can accept
Norming
Problem solving
Negotiation
Action meetings
30. Tend to be associated with management positions since they are fixed dollar amounts for compensation
Documentation
Root cause
Next steps
Salaries
31. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Networking
Information sender
Action meetings
Merit pay
32. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Mentor
Mission Statement
Call/emergency meetings
Vision Statement
33. A hybrid of favoritism in which a manager favors a relative for special assignments or promotions
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
Nepotism
Collective bargaining agreement
Noncontrollable costs
34. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Controllable costs
Time Management
Budget
Preventable crisis
35. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Agenda
Documentation
Internal communication
Alternative
36. Guidelines and procedures that explain how employees must notify management if they are unable to work
Warm-up activity
Salaries
Employee absence policy
Information receiver
37. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Planning
Vision Statement
Shift leaders
38. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Crew schedule
Forming
Floaters
Communication
39. To plan or appoint employees to work at a certain time and date
Cross-training
Scheduling
Noncontrollable costs
Brainstorming
40. A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the resources he or she has available either personally or socially
Crisis
Stress
Affection
Shift leaders
41. Uses a definite format that involves a set of questions to chart the employee's response
Leadership
Structured exit interview
Vision Statement
Stress Management
42. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Communication
Objective
Forming
Noncontrollable costs
43. The originator and developer of the information that will be communicated
Core values
Information sender
Environmental noise
Next steps
44. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Message
Documentation
Arbitration
Noncontrollable costs
45. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Problem-solving meetings
Merit pay
Spin
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
46. Infrequent speeches - presentations - lengthy memos - or reports that require systematic planning and developments
Formal communication
Goal
Facilitator
Nepotism
47. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Structured exit interview
Planning
Message channel
Exit interview
48. The ability to attend closely to what another person is saying to capture the essence of a message being communicated
Nonverbal communication
Listening
Action item
Facilitator
49. Meetings that share communication
Nonverbal communication
Information meetings
Unpreventable crisis
Encoding
50. An event that happens without warning and normally affects a number of people
Commissions
Delegation
Crisis
Brainstorming