Deck 6: Administrative Principles and Communication

Question 1

Who defines authority as "the right to give orders and power to exact obedience:

A) Henry Fayol
B) J D. Millet
C) C I. Barnard
D) Max Weber

Answer 1

Henry Fayol

Question 2

Coordination is the first principle of organisation, who said:

A) Mooney
B) Simon
C) Newman
D) M P. Follet

Answer 2

Mooney

Question 3

Which of the following is an informal means of coordination?

A) planning
B) inculcating institutional spirit
C) leadership
D) conferences

Answer 3

leadership

Question 4

The most important means of coordination is:

A) hierarchy
B) consultation
C) planning
D) centralised housekeeping agency

Question 5

"Delegation means conferring of specified authority by a higher authority to lower authority" who made this statement

A) Terry
B) Millet
C) Mooney
D) Pfiffner

Question 6

The principle of supervision is inherent in the principle of:

A) span of control
B) coordination
C) hierarchy
D) unity of command

Question 7

Which of the following is not a function of staff agencies?

A) planning
B) advising
C) consultation
D) achieving goals

Question 8

The office of the district collector in India is based on the principles of :

A) delegation
B) decentralisation
C) devolution
D) deconcentration

Question 9

The acronym POSDCORB symbolises:

A) the activities of the government
B) the activities of the administrator
C) the activities of the administration
D) the activities of the organisation

Question 10

The essence of communication is:

A) transmitting information
B) sharing information
C) imparting knowledge
D) sharing understandings

Question 11

The concept of administrative development got crystallised in the hands of -------

A) Edward Weidner
B) Dwight Waldo
C) Gullick
D) Riggs

Question 12

"Politics has to do with expression of the State will whereas administration has to do with the execution of these policies" this attributed to --

A) L. D. White
B) Goodnow
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Willoughby

Question 13

"The state is everywhere: It leaves hardly a gap", the statement explains the concept of

A) Democratic state
B) Federal state
C) welfare state
D) police state

Question 14

Which of the following is not an aspect of supervision?

A) Institution aspects
B) Personal aspects
C) Political aspects
D) technical aspects

Question 15

Which of the following is not a audio media communication?

A) public meeting
B) personal demonstration
C) interviewing
D) broadcasting

Question 16

Communication is defined as "shared understanding of a shared purpose" by

A) Millet
B) Tead
C) Barnard
D) Simon

Question 17

According to Bernard, Which is not a function of leadership?

A) manipulation of means
B) stimulation of coordination
C) defence of institutional integrity
D) control of the instrumentally action

Question 18

The first theorist who developed communication as a significant aspect of organisational behaviour is:

A) Fayol
B) Simon
C) Barnard
D) Weiner

Question 19

The first country in the world to introduce the right to information was:

A) India
B) Sweden
C) USA
D) Finland

Question 20

The most effective means of citizen's control over administration is:

A) election
B) pressure group
C) advisory committee
D) public opinion

Question 21

The 'spoil system' became dominant feature of the USA civil service system during the period of:

A) Washigton
B) Jefferson
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Jackson

Question 22

The concept of civil servants neutrality was developed mostly in :

A) USA
B) France
C) Prussia
D) UK

Question 23

Who of the following gave a fourfold classification of bureaucracy

A) Max Weber
B) F M. Marx
C) Herbert Simon
D) None

Question 24

The essence of promotion is:

A) change of title
B) change of pay
C) change of assignment
D) change of duties and assignments

Question 25

The spoil system in the USA began during the period of:

A) Jefferson
B) Jackson
C) Washington
D) Adams