PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION QUESTION PAPER HELD ON 18th MAY, 2008
TEST BOOKLET – C
Questions start with
1. The reinvention of government paradigm does not include which of the following ?
1. Risk taking ability 2. Ecological sensitivity
3. Customer orientation 4. Delegation of authority
5. Concern for the disadvantaged
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
a) 1,2 and 3 b) 3,4 and 5
c) 1,4 and 5 d) 2,4 and 5
Ans : d
2. Who defined bureaucracy as a 'state mystifying' institution ?
Ans : c
3. Match : A. Job enrichment 1. H. Simon
Ans : c
4. Effective public participation in development projects majorly needs……….
Ans : b
5. In the U.K., the Citizen and the administration : Redress of Grievances………………….
Ans : a
6. Why has the idea of organizational leadership……..social-psychological tradition ?
Ans : a
7. What is / are the chief barrier(s) to interpersonal……………
Ans : c
8. The Department of Land Resources ……….Union Ministries ?
Ans : b
9. Who among ……….author of the well-known work- administrative behaviour…………….
Ans : b
10. What is the threefold classification…….A. Etzioni ?
Ans : c
11. Participative style of leadership……………
Ans : c
12. In every organisation the need for coordination rests upon………………
Ans : d
13. "We are no longer confronted with several administrative sciences……………….
Ans : c
14. Which one …………French civil services to emerge as a national institution ?
Ans : c
15. Which one……….by Fred E. Fiedler that helps determine……….effective ?
Ans : a
16. Consider : 1. The Central Staffing Scheme for the Central government……UPSC.
Ans : d
17. Which……Census of Central government Employees and publishes the report thereof ?
Ans : b
18. How can a State Information Commissioner be removed from office ?
Ans : c ( Clause 17 of the RTI Act )
19. Which of the …………Right to Information Act 2005 …….relevant information ?
Ans : c
20. What did the Bhore Committee deal with ?
Ans : b
21. John Woodward is known ……..which area ?
Ans : a
22. Who is / are ………….Paradoxes of Group Life………….organisation
Ans : a
23. Consider : Variable budgets are used most appropriately when operations are repetitive.
Ans : c
24. Which………… leadership suggested by Rensis Likert ?
Ans : a
25. In the Managerial Grid approach ……..Robert Blake and Jane Mouton…………….
Ans : c
26. Which……………approach/method/principle for organisation development ?
Ans : d
27. Consider : Authority relationship does not play any role …………….staff functionaries.
Ans : b
28. Which one……. departmentation by product in an organisation ?
Ans : b
29. What is…………….steps in organizing process of a public service unit ?
Ans : b
30. Match : A. Non-programmed decisions 1. Lower-level managers
Ans : d
31. Preference theory or utility theory is employed ………………..
Ans : c
32. Consider : The English Committee (technically a part of the House of Commons…..
Ans : d
33. Match : Feature (proper incentive for managers….) - Type of Budget (Incremental budget)
Ans :
a
34. Match : (Concept) A. Functional foremanship 1. L.Urwick (Contributor)
Ans : c
35. Weber's charismatic authority ………….
Ans : b
36. What was / were the perspective(s) of Weber's analysis of bureaucracy ?
Ans : a
37. Out of the following who has criticized bureaucracy ………….
Ans : a
38. Consider: According to Barnard, authority is accepted in an organisation………
Ans : b
39. The behavioural approach led to administrative research…………..
Ans : d
40. Consider : Informal organisations / groups within formal ones come…………..
Ans : c
41. Consider : In the ambiguous and uncertainty-ridden decision world……………
Ans : b
42. Who among the following used the systems framework ………………….
Ans : a
43. Herbert Simon identified four basic motivations………………..
Ans : b
44. In explaining administrative decision-making, Simon's decision-theory………………..
Ans : d
45. While dealing with superior-subordinate communication……………….
Ans : c
46. Match : (Body/Feature) A: National Personnel Authority 1. United States of America(Country)
Ans : b
47. Who among the following established the Executive Office of the President of the U.S.A. ?
Ans : a
48. The Code of Ethics for public services developed by the American society……………
Ans : a
49. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development is fully owned by
Ans : b
50. Match : A. Davis Committee 1. Political activities of civil servants
Ans :
a
51. The Hallmark of French public administration……………..
Ans : c ( inferred from Ferrel Heady page 177)
52. Consider : 1. Budget is a tool of legislative control over administration.
Ans : d
53. Administration is a moral act and an administrator……………
Ans : c
54. Who among the …………….Politics-Administration dichotomy- a fairly constant…….
Ans : d
55. Match : A. Talcott Parsons 1. Creative Experience
Ans : d
56. The Second Minnowbrook Conference (1988)……………
Ans : d
57. 1. The Profession of government : B. Chapman
Ans : c
58. Development is the process of increasing autonomy of social systems…………………..
Ans : c
59. The World Bank's view did not espouse………………
Ans : d
60. Consider : Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)
Ans : a
61. Consider : The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992………….
Ans : a
62. Which of ……The Constitution received signature of the President of the Constituent Assembly…..
Ans : c
63. Consider: Under the government of India act, 1919 …..first time, bicameral.
Ans : c
64. Which of …………12th Schedule of the constitution of India for the municipalities ?
Ans : d
65. Consider : There is no provision in the Constitution of India under…. Union extends.
Ans : d
66. 1. Situational leadership theory : Hersey-Blanchard
Ans : a
67. In the context of Frederick Herzberg's motivation theory,……………….
Ans : a
68. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposed by Leon Festinger ……………
Ans : a
69. Consider : All the reports of the comptroller and auditor general of India.
Ans :
b
70. Provisions ……………Bill to be deemed to be a Money Bill ?
Ans : d
71. Who makes provisions…………..Panchayats and the auditing of such accounts ?
Ans : b
72. Who is vested with powers……………….Members and staff of the UPSC ?
Ans : a
73. What age is prescribed for a person………….Supreme Court of India ?
Ans : d
74. Which of ……….Union Ministries /office/ commission……economic survey ?
Ans :
a
75. During the presentation of the Union Budget ………….Expenditure Reforms Commission ?
Ans : d
76. Assertion : The New Public Management is a mere extension of New Public Administration.
Ans : d
77. Assertion: Economic man is the product of traditional theory of motivation.
Ans : a
78. Assertion: The systems approach is criticized on the ground ……practical situation.
Ans : b
79. Assertion : Lateral communication generally follows the chain of command rather…..flow.
Ans : d
80. A : Functional departmentation facilities efficiency in the utilization of people.
Ans : c
81. The New Public Management places maximum emphasis …………
Ans : b
82. Consider: The essential difference between closed and open models…………
Ans : c
83. "Simon proposed a new concept of administration…………….positivism"
Ans : a
84. Consider: Ethics Reforms Act, 1989 passed by the U.S. Congress was an improvement….
Ans : d
85. Consider : It refers to human behaviour directed towards organisational goals.
Ans : d
86. Which of………components of Maslow's esteem needs ?
Ans : b
87. In 'Management Grid Theory' of Blake and Mouton …………………
Ans : d
88. Which ………….leadership in terms of formulation by French and Raven ?
Ans : d
89. Who among…………….. cooperative groups activity in an organisation ?
Ans : d
90. Which one of the following streams of thought ……….under situational design theory ?
Ans : d
91. Which………….The experiments of Mayo and Roethlisberger …………hypothesis that worker
Ans : c
92. Who among………..Weber's ideal type model empirical and found that the Weberian Model…..
Ans : b
93. Which one………….. industrial under taking as detailed by Fayol ?
Ans : c
94. Taylor's scientific management covers ………….
Ans : c
95. Match : A. Frederick 1. Field Force Model
Ans : c
96. The 'Line and Staff' form of organisation first originated ……………
Ans : c
97. Consider : In the course of Waldo-Simon debate …………
Ans : c
98. Consider : Public-private distinction in public administration is currently losing……………
Ans : c
99. Consider : According to Robert Dahl, the scientific study of public administration……..
Ans :
c
100. Consider: Woodrow Wilson laid the foundation …………..
Ans : c
101. Which one………..Comparative public administration differs from traditional……involves.
Ans : a
102. Match : (Thought/Concept) Hierarchical pyramid : (Scholar) Y. Dror
Ans : a
103. Match : A. Public Administration studies……status of a science : 1. Weid
Ans : c
104. Which …..characteristics of New Public Management ?
Ans : a
105. Which……………Post Modern Public Administration ?
Ans : c
106. Legitimacy of rule, ………………Max Weber…………
Ans : a
107. According to classical theorists,……………… organisation characterized ?
Ans : b
108. A. Human Organistion 1. Rensis Likert
Ans : a
109. Which of…………..Commission on Centre State Relations by the government of India ?
Ans : d
110. Who among……….National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution…..
Ans : c
111. Which of………..enlargement of Fundamental Rights were recommended……………….
Ans : d
112. The States' Debt Consolidation and Relief Facility 2005-2010……………
Ans : b
113. Which of……..13th Finance Commission as per the terms of reference ?
Ans : a
114. Recommendations of the 13th Finance Commission ………..commencing from which date ?
Ans : c
115. Match : A. Finance Commission - 1. 148
Ans : b
116. Under which Union Ministry does the National River Conservation Directorate function
Ans : d
117. Consider : Scheme for strengthening of Revenue administration and updating of land records
Ans : c
118. Consider : 1. Good objective standards enable managers to avoid time-consuming…….
Ans : c
119. Consider : 1. Functional departmentation ensure that core activities of the enterprise……
Ans : c
120. Consider : Professional identification is no maintained.
Ans : b
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