Deck 5: Public Administration and Bureaucracy

Question 1

Which of the following is not a component of a depoliticised bureaucracy?

A) neutrality
B) anomaly
C) committed bureaucracy
D) apolitical character

Answer 1

anomaly

Question 2

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

A) different environment
B) account keeping and audit
C) organisational structure
D) techniques of management

Answer 2

techniques of management

Question 3

The scope and importance of Public Administration does not include:

A) Growing social complexity and specialisation
B) egalitarianism
C) functions of bureaucracy
D) any concern for individuals material and spiritual needs

Answer 3

any concern for individuals material and spiritual needs

Question 4

Which one of the following scholars subscribe to the managerial view of administration?

A) Henry Fayol
B) Luther Gullick
C) L. D. White
D) J. S. Hudson

Question 5

Which of the following is not advocate by the New Public Administration

A) humanism
B) behaviouralism
C) Decentralisation and delegation
D) pluralism

Question 6

"Administration is a long and slightly pompous word, but it has a humble meaning" who said this?

A) Herbert Simon
B) Piffifner
C) E. N. Gladden
D) L. D. White

Question 7

Which of the following is not a principle of organisation?

A) clientele
B) hierarchy
C) unity of command
D) co-ordination

Question 8

According to Rule of Law..............?

A) all are equal
B) all are equal before law
C) some are more equal
D) bureaucrats are above law

Question 9

The English word 'administer' is derived from Latin words..............and .......

A) advocate and minister
B) ad and magistrate
C) ad and ministrate
D) ad and mission

Question 10

Uniformity of treatment is considered as an important feature of .......... administration:

A) private
B) public
C) private and public
D) none of the above

Question 11

Administration would differ from one field to another according to the subject matter. This statement explains the

A) Managerial view of administration
B) Wider view of administration
C) Integral view of administration
D) Narrower view of administration

Question 12

Who coined the acronym POSDCORB?

A) Gulick and Urwick
B) Urwick
C) Gulick
D) Henry Fayol

Question 13

Who among the following states that public administration includes the operations of only the executive branch of government?

A) l. D White and Luther Gulick
B) L. D. White
C) Luther Gulick
D) W. F Willoughby

Question 14

Public administration includes all the activities of the government whether falling in the sphere of the legislative executive or judicial branch of the government. This statement reflects the

A) Integral view of administration
B) Wider view of administration
C) Managerial view of administration
D) Narrower view of administration

Question 15

Who among the following administrative thinkers has defined administration as "the organisation and direction of human and material resources to achieve desired ends?"

A) L. D. White
B) John. A. Vieg
C) J. M. Pfiffner
D) H. A. Simon

Question 16

Who declared that "If our civilisation fails, it will be mainly because of a breakdown of administration?"

A) Charles A. Beard
B) L. D. White
C) Donham
D) Ordway Tead

Question 17

"Public administration is the heart of the problem of modern government" is said by

A) W. B. Donham
B) Charles. A. Beard
C) L. D. White
D) P. H. Appleby

Question 18

Public administration is ---------------

A) The basis of government
B) An instrument of national integration
C) A stabilising force in society
D) An instrument for providing services

Question 19

The hallmark of public administration is:

A) Consistency of treatment
B) Public responsibility
C) Community service
D) External financial control

Question 20

"Politics has to do with expressions of the state will whereas administration has to do with the execution of these policies."This is attributed to:

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

Question 21

Which of the following is not a hindrance in the evolution of the science of public administration, according to Robert Dayal?

A) Values permeating administration
B) Uncertainty of human behaviour
C) Intellectual capacity of public administrationists
D) Socio cultural impact on administration.

Question 22

Who among the following is known as the father of American Public Administration ?

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

Question 23

Who among the following has called hierarchy as the scalar process?

A) Mooney
B) Reiley
C) L. D. White
D) Gullic

Question 24

Who among the following said scalar chain is a universal phenomenon?

A) Gullic
B) L D. White
C) J. D. Millet
D) Mooney

Question 25

The concept of unity of command is complementary to the principle of :

A) span of control
B) authority
C) scalar chain
D) supervision