Deck 2: Values and Ethics in Public Administration

Question 1

Who made the distinction between objective and subjective responsibility?

A)Carl Friedrich
B)Herman Finer
C)Frederick Mosher
D)Paul Thomas

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Who should appointed officials report to if there are wrongdoings in the public service?

A)Public Service Commission of Canada
B)Department of Finance
C)Department of Public Works and Government Services
D)Public Service Commission of Canada

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Who has the authority to appoint heads and members of agencies?

A)deputy ministers
B)departmental managers
C)the prime minister
D)the governor-general

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What is the term for a measure of performance that may be expressed as a ratio between input and output?

A)political neutrality
B)values
C)efficiency
D)equity

Question 5

In recent years, what terminology has replaced the politics-administration dichotomy?

A)politics-accountability dichotomy
B)politics-management dichotomy
C)politics-service dichotomy
D)politics-bureaucracy dichotomy

Question 6

Policy decisions are non-political.

Question 7

Which of the following does NOT concern administrative accountability?

A)political
B)legal
C)institutional
D)procedural

Question 8

What is the agency responsible for overseeing appointments to the federal public service called?

A)Public Service Employment
B)Service Canada
C)Public Service Commission
D)Ethics Commissioner

Question 9

What was the premise of Osborn v Canada?

A)to enact rules about patronage appointments
B)to amend Section 33 of the Public Service Employment Act
C)to strike down Section 33 of the Public Service Employment Act
D)to implement rules on anonymity

Question 10

Which group is excluded from Section 33 of the Public Service Employment Act of 1967?

A)junior policy analysts
B)senior policy analysts
C)regional director of a department
D)deputy ministers

Question 11

New Public Management has emphasized the importance of merging policy and administration.

Question 12

How is a disposition to distinguish right from wrong is best described?

A)as equity
B)as responsiveness
C)as neutrality
D)as integrity

Question 13

Professional values stress beliefs relating to efficiency and excellence.

Question 14

The anonymity of public servants depends on the doctrine of individual ministerial responsibility.

Question 15

Which of the following is similar in meaning to objective responsibility?

A)administrative accountability
B)loyalty
C)identification
D)psychological responsibility

Question 16

Which of the following values states that "federal public servants are entrusted to use and care for public resources responsibly"?

A)stewardship
B)excellence
C)integrity
D)neutrality

Question 17

Which of the following is part of the values and ethics code for the public sector?

A)respect for democracy
B)political neutrality
C)administrative accountability
D)responsiveness

Question 18

Public servants are appointed and promoted on the basis of patronage and party affiliations.

Question 19

What type of responsibility refers to the responsibility a person feels towards others, often synonymous with loyalty or conscience?

A)subjective responsibility
B)objective responsibility
C)accountability
D)answerability

Question 20

Which type of approach did John Langford claim was more direct, specific, and to the point?

A)values approach
B)ethical approach
C)rules approach
D)public approach

Question 21

The traditional understanding of accountability assumes a more top-down arrangement.

Question 22

According to Paul Thomas, accountability should consist of an obligation to answer for the discharge of those responsible.

Question 23

Public servants have security of tenure during good behaviour and satisfactory performance.

Question 24

Public servants have significant influence on the final decisions on major public policy issues.

Question 25

In Ontario, the code for public servants takes the form of a regulation.