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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. Shows which job classifications are essential or primary to staff and which are secondary
Deployment chart
Shift leaders
Supporting
Principles
2. Being unfairly partial to one or more employees
Empathy
Standard
Workplace Ethics
Favoritism
3. Statements of desired results
Goal
Self-directed teams
Problem solving
Controllable costs
4. Any message presented to staff to create a cohesive and productive workforce
Voluntary termination
Networking
Internal communication
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
5. A potential solution to a problem
Delegation
Storming
Standard
Alternative
6. An estimate of future sales based on historical sales records and other information viewed as relevant by management
Noncontrollable costs
Interpersonal communication
Controllable costs
Sales projections
7. A standard by which something can be measured or judged
Organizational communication
Informal communication
Performance standard
Benchmark
8. A meeting between the employer and employee when the employee leaves the company
Exit interview
Affection
Budget
Communication
9. 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
Management
Next steps
Conflict resolution
Alternative
10. A situation in which management must terminate an employee for one of four reasons - including lack of work for the individual - lack of funding - unsatisfactory performance - or violating a company policy
Wage
Crew schedule
Involuntary termination
Mission Statement
11. A method of collecting ideas from all participants without criticism or judgment
Brainstorming
Goal
Personal treatment
Parking lot
12. A company's key elements of operation - and they serve as the foundation for the development of both the vision statement and the mission statement
Core values
Standard
Merit pay
Motivators/Satisfiers
13. The many expressions and movements of a speaker that convey additional information about the message being given
Facilitator
Internal communication
Payroll standards
Nonverbal communication
14. All opportunities that managers have to talk with their employees on a one-to-one basis or in small groups
Master schedule
Professionalism
Informal communication
Crisis
15. A chart that shows employees what days and hours they are expected to work
Salaries
Ground rules
Crew schedule
Compensation
16. A strategy to share information that the receiver would not normally know
Leadership
Arbitration
Spin
Self-disclosure
17. Includes key personnel to be notified in the event of a crisis - such as each member of management
Management schedule
Noncontrollable costs
Contact list
Brainstorming
18. A specific description or statement of what a manager wants to achieve
Objective
Stress
Structured exit interview
Cross-functional team
19. A group of individuals who operate as a unit for an assigned task or goal
Supporting
Semivariable costs
Team
Inclusion
20. A tool used to identify Strengths and Weaknesses and to examine Opportunities and Threats employees face in the organization
Management schedule
Warm-up activity
SWOT analysis
Problem-solving model
21. The degree of responsibility an individual has to an activity
Workplace Ethics
Work styles
Interpersonal communication
Accountability
22. The process of removing customers and employees from the premises when a crisis occurs
Evacuation
Planning
Information meetings
Deployment chart
23. The environment that a message travels through
Professional Development
Message context
Professionalism
Terminable acts
24. Factors that incite an employee to put out more effort and enthusiasm for his or her job
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Mentor
Noncontrollable costs
Motivators/Satisfiers
25. An assembly of people for the purpose of discussing or making decisions about some topics
Meeting
Master schedule
Problem solving
Nonverbal communication
26. Employees who have the ability to perform more than one job on a regular basis within a foodservice operation
Floaters
Collective bargaining agreement
Stress Management
Directing
27. A type of action meeting in which some type of crisis has occurred and immediate action must be taken
Semivariable costs
Spin
Certification
Call/emergency meetings
28. Formulating the details of a meeting beforehand so you and the participants know what should occur during it
Planning
Goal
Teamwork
Value Statement
29. 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
Principles
Directing
Performance standard
Sales projections
30. Sees team members settling their differences and developing more cohesive and trusting work relationships
Next steps
Norming
Evacuation
Message context
31. Process in which a third party listens and reviews facts and makes a decision to settle the conflict
Benchmark
Arbitration
Professional Development
Action plan
32. The person for whom the communication is intended
Workplace Ethics
Terminable acts
Information receiver
Media policy
33. The reality of the project sets in for the team and various interpersonal conflicts begin to surface
Message channel
Storming
Formal communication
Debrief meeting
34. A visible space to write those ideas or topics that are important and brought up in a meeting - but that cannot be addressed
Parking lot
Controllable costs
Information sender
Conflict resolution
35. Occurs when an employee - of his or her own free will - decides to leave an organization
Standard
Involuntary termination
Voluntary termination
Standard
36. A projection of sales - costs - and profit that is used to guide day-to-day operational decisions
Budget
Root cause
Benchmark
Action plan
37. Meetings involving a group or team whose purpose is to tackle a problem
Norming
Leadership
Problem-solving meetings
Standard
38. A conversation without prepared questions
Call/emergency meetings
Delegation
Payroll standards
Unstructured exit interview
39. The act of identifying with the feelings - thoughts - or attitudes of another person
Informal communication
Motivators/Satisfiers
Empathy
Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Laws
40. All types of wages combined with other rewards or benefits that the employee receives as part of a package
Controllable costs
Compensation
Message channel
Next steps
41. Brief meetings in which the goal is to decide and commit to action
Warm-up activity
Measurable results
Action meetings
Performance standard
42. Costs that management can control
Controllable costs
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Deployment chart
Arbitration
43. Putting a positive thought into the public's mind following a negative situation
Interfunctional team
Spin
Mentor
Workplace Ethics
44. To explore all of a problem's potential causes
Semivariable costs
Controllable costs
Problem-solving model
Shift leaders
45. 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
Next steps
Problem-solving model
Time Management
Departmental/team objectives
46. Serve as a set of standards by which an organization operates
Merit pay
Value Statement
Measurable results
Debrief meeting
47. Usually associated with a sales function and are a percentage of the money taken in on various types of sales
Floaters
Strategic priority
Scheduling
Commissions
48. Simply stated criteria used to determine whether a goal has been met
Standard
Voluntary termination
SWOT analysis
Warm-up activity
49. An additional sum paid to an employee whose work is superior and whose services are valued
Merit pay
Internal communication
Involuntary termination
Budget
50. Those costs that have both a fixed and variable element - such that one part will not change as sales volume changes - whereas the other part will change
Semivariable costs
Stress
Shift leaders
Cross-training