PRACTICE QUESTIONS - UGC NET (POLITICAL SCIENCE)
Public Administration
UGC NET POLITICAL SCIENCE
(UNIT 9)
Public Administration and Theories
1. What does it mean when we add public to administration?
(a) Private administration
(b) Management of public institutions
(c) Governmental administration
(d) To manage public affairs only
2. Along with process of administration, public administration deals with
(a) substantive concerns
(b) all private affairs
(c) study of mass moments
(d) All of the above
3. Public administration emerged as a discipline in
(a) 1881
(b) 1889
(c) 1883
(d) 1887
4. Who is the founder of public administration as discipline
(a) Woodrow Wilson
(b) Herbert Simon
(c) Gulick
(d) Fred Riggs
5. How many stages are there in evolution of public administration?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Six
(d) Three
6. Which stage is known as the Politics Administration or Public-Private Dichotomy?
(a) 1927-1937
(b) 1948-1970
(c) 1970 onwards
(d) 1887-1926
7. Second stage of evolution emphasised on
(a) value-neutral science
(b) value-based science
(c) scientific work
(d) None of the above
8. Which thinkers are grouped under the classical theory of administration?
(a) Fredrick Winlow Taylor and Herbert Simon
(b) Henri Fayol and Urwick
(c) Fredrick Winlow Taylor and Henri Fayol
(d) Urwick and Dimock
9. Why third stage is known as Era of challenge?
(a) It emphasised on scientific values
(b) It emphasised on human aspect of administration
(c) It emphasised only on mechanistic view
(d) None of the above
10. Who propogated the ‘Behavioural Science School’?
(a) Weinder
(b) Herbert Simon
(c) Waldo
(d) Fredrickson
11. Who among the following has not talked about public and private administration?
(a) Paul H Appleby
(b) Herbert A Simon
(c) Chris Argyris
(d) Peter Drucker
12. Which among the following does not come under the similarities between private and public administration?
(a) Both has cross movement of functionaries
(b) Both sectors shared many skills, techniques and procedures
(c) Some theories of public administration emerged in private administration
(d) None of the above
13. What does Lybernetics mean
(a) Command and control in living organisms, machines and organisations
(b) Flexible government model
(c) Market model
(d) Science of communicating
14. How Chester Barnard defined equilibrium of system?
(a) Through elements of contribution and satisfaction
(b) Coordination between public and private sphere
(c) Coordination coween managers and workers
(d) Through elements of compromise and satisfaction
15. What is not the approach to the study of systems?
(a) Organisation as a cooperative system
(b) Scientific approach
(c) Decision-making approach
(d) None of the above
16. Decision-making approach is associated with
(a) Woodrow Wilson
(b) Herbert Simon
(c) Fred Riggs
(d) Habermas
17. Simon’s decision-making approach can be identified with
(a) fact value proposition
(b) irrational criteria in decision-making
(c) technical thought process
(d) human values
18. Who criticised Simon for not recognising the role of intuition, tradition and faith in decision-making?
(a) Argyris
(b) Nigro
(c) Selznick
(d) All of these
19. Ecological approach means
(a) environment plays role in shaping administrative system
(b) environment does not effect the administrative
(c) only administration does effect the environment
(d) None of the above
20. Who first propogated ecological approach?
(a) Winslow Taylor
(b) Fred W Riggs
(c) Herbert Simon
(d) Robert Dahl
21. ‘Agraria-Transitia-industria’ system was later superseded by
(a) Agraria-Transitia-diffracted
(b) Fused-transitia-diffracted
(c) Agraria-prismatic-industria
(d) Fused-prismatic-diffracted
22. Which one of the following is not the characteristics of Fused model?
(a) Dominance of royal family
(b) Responsive government
(c) Barter economic system
(d) Depend on agriculture
23. Which of the following is characterstic of Prismatic model?
(a) Heterogeneity
(b) Formalism
(c) Overlapping
(d) All of these
24. Administrative sub system is known as the
(a) Sala model
(b) Bazaar-Canteen model
(c) Participatory State model
(d) None of these
25. Scientific Management theory came in which phase of industrial revolution?
(a) Second Phase
(b) First Phase
(c) Fourth Phase
(d) Third Phase
26. Who is known as the Father of Scientific Management?
(a) Louis Brande
(b) Frederick Winslow Taylor
(c) Weidner
(d) David Osborne
27. Concept of systematic adaption was first used by
(a) Winslow Taylor
(b) Louis Brande
(c) David Osborne
(d) Weidner
28. “Best Management is a true scientific resting upon clearly defined laws, rules and principles”. Who said this?
(a) Taylor
(b) Dahl
(c) Riggs
(d) Waldo
Public Administration and Theories
| Question | Answer | Question | Answer | Question | Answer | Question | Answer | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (c) | 2 | (a) | 3 | (d) | 4 | (a) | 5 | (a) |
| 6 | (d) | 7 | (a) | 8 | (c) | 9 | (b) | 10 | (b) |
| 11 | (c) | 12 | (d) | 13 | (a) | 14 | (a) | 15 | (a) |
| 16 | (b) | 17 | (a) | 18 | (a) | 19 | (a) | 20 | (b) |
| 21 | (d) | 22 | (a) | 23 | (d) | 24 | (a) | 25 | (a) |
| 26 | (b) | 27 | (b) | 28 | (a) | 29 | (b) | 30 | (d) |
| 31 | (d) | 32 | (a) | 33 | (c) | 34 | (a) | 35 | (c) |
| 36 | (d) | 37 | (a) | 38 | (d) | 39 | (a) | 40 | (a) |
| 41 | (c) | 42 | (d) | 43 | (c) | 44 | (d) | 45 | (d) |
| 46 | (a) | 47 | (b) | 48 | (c) | 49 | (d) | 50 | (a) |
| 51 | (b) | 52 | (a) | 53 | (d) | 54 | (c) | 55 | (c) |
| 56 | (b) | 57 | (c) | 58 | (a) | 59 | (a) | 60 | (a) |
| 61 | (b) | 62 | (b) | 63 | (b) | 64 | (b) | 65 | (b) |
| 66 | (a) | 67 | (a) | 68 | (b) | 69 | (d) | 70 | (a) |
| 71 | (c) | 72 | (b) | 73 | (d) | 74 | (a) | 75 | (b) |
| 76 | (c) | 77 | (c) | 78 | (a) | 79 | (d) | 80 | (c) |
| 81 | (b) | 82 | (d) | 83 | (b) | 84 | (c) | 85 | (a) |
| 86 | (a) | 87 | (a) | 88 | (a) | 89 | (b) | 90 | (c) |
| 91 | (b) | 92 | (a) | 93 | (b) | 94 | (a) | 95 | (a) |
| 96 | (c) | 97 | (b) | 98 | (a) |
Theories and Principles of Organisation
| Question | Answer | Question | Answer | Question | Answer | Question | Answer | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (a) | 2 | (c) | 3 | (b) | 4 | (a) | 5 | (b) |
| 6 | (a) | 7 | (d) | 8 | (b) | 9 | (a) | 10 | (b) |
| 11 | (a) | 12 | (d) | 13 | (a) | 14 | (d) | 15 | (a) |
| 16 | (c) | 17 | (b) | 18 | (a) | 19 | (c) | 20 | (a) |
| 21 | (d) | 22 | (d) | 23 | (a) | 24 | (b) | 25 | (b) |
| 26 | (d) | 27 | (a) | 28 | (d) | 29 | (b) | 30 | (b) |
| 31 | (a) | 32 | (c) | 33 | (d) | 34 | (a) | 35 | (a) |
| 36 | (c) | 37 | (d) | 38 | (a) | 39 | (c) | 40 | (b) |
| 41 | (c) | 42 | (b) | 43 | (d) | 44 | (c) | 45 | (c) |
| 46 | (d) | 47 | (d) | 48 | (d) | 49 | (d) | 50 | (c) |
| 51 | (c) | 52 | (a) | 53 | (c) | 54 | (c) | 55 | (a) |
| 56 | (c) | 57 | (a) | 58 | (c) | 59 | (a) | 60 | (b) |
| 61 | (a) | 62 | (a) | 63 | (a) | 64 | (d) | 65 | (d) |
| 66 | (a) | 67 | (d) | 68 | (d) | 69 | (b) | 70 | (d) |
| 71 | (d) | 72 | (b) | 73 | (a) | 74 | (b) | 75 | (b) |
| 76 | (c) | 77 | (b) | 78 | (b) | 79 | (c) | 80 | (c) |
| 81 | (a) | 82 | (c) | 83 | (a) | 84 | (c) | 85 | (a) |
| 86 | (c) | 87 | (c) | 88 | (a) | 89 | (c) | 90 | (a) |
| 91 | (d) | 92 | (c) | 93 | (a) | 94 | (c) | 95 | (b) |
| 96 | (c) | 97 | (b) | 98 | (a) | 99 | (a) | 100 | (d) |
| 101 | (a) | 102 | (a) | 103 | (a) | 104 | (a) | 105 | (c) |
| 106 | (a) | 107 | (a) |