PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
MCQ TEST-9
(1) Assertion: In welfare states, Public Administration touches almost all aspects of a citizen’s life.
Reason: The scope and importance of Public Administration increases with increasing societal complexity, specialisation and differentiation.
(2) The scope of conventional public administration has been under attack from Public Choice Theorists, as they
(a) Reject the idea of welfare state
(b) Consider the market as a more efficient provider of good sand services
(c) View the politician as being in league with the bureaucrat
(d) Propose restrictions on bureaucratic functioning
(3) Consider the following statements:
Public Administrationists used both ‘carrot’ and ‘stick’ to remain within Political Science and underline
1. public policy-making process
2. prospect of developing it as pure science
3. cultivation of engineering mentality
4. epistemological benefits of both Political Science and Public Administration
(a) 1,3 and 4
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 2 and 4
(d) 1 and 4
(4) Which one of the following is NOT the function of Public Administration?
(a) To settle disputes between private companies and labour unions
(b) To establish public health programme
(c) To resolves problems off foreign policy
(d) To obtain co-operation from the public in implementing public policies
(5) Public Administration must scrupulously observe the principle of
(a) Internal financial control
(b) differential treatment
(c) redressal of grievances
(d) consistency of treatment
(6) Which of the following are true of the bureaucratic model of functioning in a ‘Prismatic Society?
1. Rationality in organisation behaviour is highest
2. Application of rules is biased
3. preferential treatment is accorded
4. new values get developed in the officers
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 4
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 3 and 4
(d) 1 and 2
(7) Gerald Caiden has mentioned that the crucial role as assumed by public administration in contemporary society is
(a) Demoralising administration
(b) Strengthening of human relations in administration
(c) Strengthening of roots of democracy
(d) Institutionalisation of socio-economic change
(8) In which of the following directions does public administration move at present?
1. Multi-foci in study
2. Mini-paradigms
3. New Public Administration
4. Locus and focus approach
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
(a) 4 only
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 2
(d) 1 and 3
(9) Assertion: The study of public administration lacks cross-cultural concepts and principles for being able to be recognized as a science.
Reason: Administrative culture cannot transcend national frontiers and national experiences.
(10) Hawthorne Studies have proved that:
1. Wherever the supervisors are employee centered, the output of the employees is more.
2. Wherever the supervisors are production centered, the output of the employees is more.
3. wherever the supervisors are production centered, the output of the employees is less.
4. wherever the supervisors are employee centered the output of the employees is less.
(a) 2 and 4
(b) 3 and 2
(c) 1 and 4
(d) 1 and 3
(11) According to Gulick, the great limiting factors in the development of coordination are:
1. Authority
2. Size
3. Informal organization
4. Leadership
5. Time
(a) 2 and 5
(b) 2,3 and 4
(c) 1,3 and 4
(d) 1,2,3 and 5
(12) The scalar principle refers to
(a) organization the relations between members of line and staff
(b) classification of civil servants according to their pay scales
(c) grading of duties according to the degrees of authority
(d) the principle by which scales of pay are fixed
(13) Which of the following speak about the correct relationship between the closeness of supervision and the level of output by the workers?
1. The closer the supervision, the higher the output.
2. the closer the supervision, the lower the output
3. the more distant the supervision, the higher the output
4. the more distant the supervision, the lower the output.
(a) 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 3 and 4
(d) 1 and 4
(14) Delegation, to be successful, ahs to rely chiefly on:
1. interpersonal trust
2. subordinate’s efficiency
3. subordinate’s loyalty
4. Clear character of delegated activities.
(a) 2,3 and 4
(b) 1,3 and 4
(c) 1,2 and 4
(d) 1,2 and 3
(15) Which one of the following is NOT the main concern of scientific management?
(a) mechanistic methods
(b) efficiency
(c) rationality
(d) production
(16) Assertion: Delegation does not mean the final transfer of power and responsibility to the delegated authority.
Reason: Delegation is the devolution of authority by a superior person to his agency or subordinate without a right to supervise and control.
(17) Which of the following are associated with coordination?
1. Exercise of hierarchical authority
2. the orderly synchronization of efforts
3. the integration of several parts into an orderly whole
4. provision and improvement of skilled personnel
(a) 1,2 and 3
(b) 2,3 and 4
(c) 1,2 and 4
(d) 3 and 4
(18) 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
(19) Which one of the following is the main drawback of a hierarchical organization?
(a) rule-orientation
(b) define structures
(c) red-tapism
(d) fixed levels of decision-making
(20) Which one of the following is a drawback in Max Weber’s bureaucratic model?
(a) lack of legal-rational principles
(b) lack of normative factors as guiding actions
(c) lack of rule of law upon the functioning of bureaucratic organization
(d) lack of a theoretically integrated total system of action
(1) a
(2) b
(3) d
(4) a
(5) d
(6) b
(7) d
(8) c
(9) c
(10) d
(11) a
(12) c
(13) a
(14) c
(15) a
(16) c
(17) a
(18) c
(19) c
(20) d
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