PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION MCQ TEST-12

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

MCQ TEST-12

(1) The system of Integrated Financial Advice was introduced first in the Ministry of:

(a) Rural Development

(b) Irrigation and Power

(c) Shipping and Transport

(d) Industry

(2) Which of the following expenditures are charged upon the Consolidated Fund of India?

1. Allowances of the Chairman of Lok Sabha

2. Expenditure relating to the raising of loans and the service and redemption of debt

3. pension of the judges of High Court

4. Any sum required to satisfy the award of any arbitration tribunal

5. administrative expenses of the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General

(a) 1,2 and 5

(b) 2,3 and 4

(c) 1,2,3,4 and 5

(d) 2 and 5

(3) Assertion: The financial system in India has been traditionally centralised.

Reason: The Finance Ministry has been exercising the overall financial control and supervision.

(4) Token Grant is granted

(a) to meet a special purpose

(b) to meet an unexpected demand upon the resources of the country

(c) when funds to meet proposed expenditure on a new service can be made by reappropiraiton

(d) when money has been spent on any service during a financial year in excess of the amount granted for that service

(5) Which among the following is NOT one of the benefits of Sunset Legislation?

(a) It avoids unnecessary expansion of governmental activities

(b) It makes the financial resources available for new programmes

(c) It increases governmental expenditure on welfare programmes

(d) It ensure economy in government expenditure

(6) In India, the adoption of performance budget was first recommended by

(a) Paul Appleby

(b) Administrative Reforms Commission

(c) Estimates Committee

(d) First Hoover Commission

(7) Constitutional safeguards to civil servants are ensured by

(a) Art. 311

(b) Art. 315

(c) Art. 310

(d) Art. 312

(8) Which of the following are the ability tests?

1. Aptitude Test

2. Social Intelligence Test

3. Gotshchold Test

4. Achievement Test

5. General Intelligence Test

(a) 1,2 and 3

(b) 2,3 and 5

(c) 2,3 and 4

(d) 1,2 and 5

(9) Positive Recruitment constitutes:

1. Preventing favouritism in recruitment

2. maximising mobilisation of best qualified and most able candidates

3. eliminating political influence in recruitment

4. placing the right man on the right job

5. ‘keeping the rascals’ out from recruitment

(a) 2,3 and 5

(b) 2,3 and 4

(c) 1,2 and 4

(d) 2 and 4

(10) Which among the following is NOT correctly matched?

(a) Earned Leave: is intended to enable the employee to take rest for a certain period

(b) Study Leave: is granted to an employee for undergoing a special course of higher studies

(c) Causal Leave: is granted when earned leave is at credit

(d) Paternity Leave: is granted to male government servants with less than two surviving children

(11) National Police Academy was set up on the recommendations of

(a) Kothari Committee

(b) Administrative Reforms Commission

(c) Kohli Committee

(d) Paul Appleby Report

(12) The 5^th pay commission recommended

(a) Group System in the place of functional classification

(b) Abolition of both functional and group systems

(c) Functional classification in the place of group system

(d) Co-existence of both functional and group systems

(13) Who among the following has described the growth of delegated legislation as “Triumph of Bureaucracy”

(a) H J Laski

(b) Ramsay Muir

(c) Lord Hewart

(d) C K Allen

(14) According to Barnard, which of the following are the main functions of leadership?

1. The control of the instrumentality of action

2. the determination of objectives

3. the stimulation of coordinated action

4. the manipulation of means

(a) 1 and 3

(b) 2 and 3

(c) 2 and 4

(d) 1,2,3 and 4

(15) Attribution Theory of motivation was propounded by

(a) Clayton Alderfer

(b) Edwin Locke

(c) Wiliam Ouchi and Alfred Jaeger

(d) Harold Kelley

(16) Which among the following is NOT one of the sources of influence identified by John French and Bertram Raven?

(a) Expert Power

(b) Knowledge Power

(c) Reward Power

(d) Coercive Power

(17) Who among the following is NOT a Behaviouralist?

(a) Elton mayo

(b) Weber

(c) Rensis Likert

(d) Chris Argyris

(18) “The Practice of Management” was written by

(a) Rensis Likert

(b) Herbert Simon

(c) Paul Appleby

(d) Peter Drucker

(19) Who among the following gave initial impetus to the evolution of organisational development?

(a) W D Ross

(b) David Hume

(c) Kurt Lewin

(d) Robert Merton

(20) Which of the following will help reduce rivalry and rancour in line-staff relationship?

1. Opportunities to exchange roles

2. training to line people in staff work and vice-versa

3. special pay to line people

4. departmentalism

(a) 1 and 4

(b) 2 and 3

(c) 1 and 2

(d) 3 and 4

(1) c

(2) c

(3) a

(4) c

(5) c

(6) c

(7) a

(8) b

(9) d

(10) c

(11) c

(12) c

(13) d

(14) d

(15) d

(16) b

(17) b

(18) d

(19) c

(20) c