Deck 1: Public Administration and Organizational Theory

Question 1

Literally the term 'administration' means---------------------

A) Manage the laws
B) Manage the trade
C) Manage the affairs of public or private
D) Education

Answer 1

Manage the affairs of public or private

Question 2

Public administration is the sum total of all the activities undertaken in pursuit of and in fulfilment of public policy, belongs to which view?

A) Managerial view
B) Integral view
C) POSDCORB view
D) Subject matter view

Answer 2

Integral view

Question 3

The human relations theory focussed on the

A) Physiological factors
B) biological factors
C) Social and psychological factors
D) Economic factors

Answer 3

Social and psychological factors

Question 4

The discipline of public administration originated in----

A) U. K
B) U. S. A
C) Germany
D) India

Question 5

Who was the originator of Politics-administration dichotomy?

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) W. F. Willoughby
C) Mary Parker Follet
D) Henry Fayol

Question 6

The 'POSDCORB' relates to the --------------- of the public administration?

A) Scope
B) Meaning
C) Purpose
D) Philosophy

Question 7

Which one of the following activities are not covered in 'POSDCORB'?

A) Budgeting
B) Planning
C) Reporting
D) Discipline

Question 8

New Public administration laid emphasis on ------------

A) Economy and efficiency
B) Values and ethics
C) Behaviour of the public
D) None of the above

Question 9

Scalar chain refers to:

A) All managers in a company
B) Chain of command
C) Chain of communication
D) Chain of managers from top to bottom linked stepwise

Question 10

The name of Max Weber is associated with -------

A) Bureaucratic theory
B) System theory
C) Human relations theory
D) Administrative theory

Question 11

The primary focus of human relations theory is on:

A) Increasing labour productivity
B) Economic and efficiency
C) Individual as socio- psychological being and what motive him
D) None of the above

Question 12

The organisation theory which highlights the social and psychological influences on organisational behaviour is called:

A) human relations theory
B) system theory
C) bureaucratic theory
D) classical theory

Question 13

Which of the following are required in organisation as a process?

A) division of work
B) grouping jobs and departments
C) establishing authority relationship
D) all the three

Question 14

The history of evolution of the discipline of public administration is generally divided into:

A) four phases
B) three phases
C) six phases
D) five phases

Question 15

The integral view of public administration is supported by:

A) L D. White
B) Dimock
C) Gladden
D) all the above

Question 16

The word "POSDCORB" was coined by:

A) J M. Pfiffner
B) Marshal Dimock
C) Luther Gullick
D) L D. White

Question 17

Which of the following is the main point of difference between public administration and private administration?

A) Profit motive
B) Public responsibility
C) Nature of functions
D) All the above

Question 18

Which of the following statement is correct regarding the increasingly important role of public administration in modern state?

A) The complexities of the modern industrial and urbanised world
B) It is a great instrument of social change
C) Concept of welfare state and total war
D) All the above

Question 19

The term "development administration" was first coined by:

A) Fred W. Riggs
B) Edward W. Weidner
C) Goswami
D) Joseph la Palombra

Question 20

Which of the following is a feature of Max Weber's bureaucratic organisation?

A) A well defined hierarchy
B) Division of labour based on functional specialisation
C) Office holder cannot appropriate his office
D) All the above.

Question 21

Which of the following is required in organisation as a process

A) Division of work
B) Grouping jobs and departments
C) Establishing authority relationships
D) All the three above

Question 22

Which of the following is important in the organisational structure?

A) Well defined jobs
B) Coordination.
C) Clarifying authority and power
D) All the above.

Question 23

Which of the following is not one of the principles of organisation?

A) Hierarchy or scalar principle
B) Staffing
C) Unity of command
D) Span of control

Question 24

Hierarchy means:

A) Officials at different levels of organisation.
B) Control of the higher over the lower
C) Gang plank
D) All of these

Question 25

The principle of scalar chain was devised by

A) Henry Fayol
B) L. Urwick
C) Frederick Taylor
D) Chester . I. Bernard.