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Public Administration: Past Years' Questions
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1. Who recommended that the National Development Council should be given a constitutional status under Article 263 and renamed as National Economic and Development Council ?
2. Which of the following is not an informal training type ?
3. Which of the following theories focuses on informal organization and participative management ?
4. New Public Administration shares this feature with Development Administration-”
5. The political rights granted to the Civil Servants in France are-”
6. The conditions necessary to ensure that neutrality does not lead to a state of inertia and status-quo maintenance are-”
7. Until administrative description reaches a higher level of sophistication - there is little reason to hope that rapid progress will be made towards the identification and verification of valid administrative principles.- Who said it ?,Henri Fayol ,Leonard White,Herbert Simon ,Robert Dahl,d Which of the following attempts to construct a theory of public organization in tune with consumer interests and individual preferences ?,Development Administration Approach ,Public Choice Approach,Co-optation Concept ,Behavioural Approach,b Who theorized that -˜Every person has certain basic assumptions about other people-™s attitude toward work and organization.-™ ?,Elton Mayo ,Frederick Herzberg,Chris Argyris ,Douglas McGregor,d Which of the following has been termed as the biological parent of Public Administration ?,Sociology ,Political Science,Business Administration ,Psychology,b The central theme of Comparative Public Administration is-”,Administrative structure ,Bureaucracy,Citizen-Administration Relations ,Leadership,b Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer : List-I (Theme), Job Enrichment,Mechanical Study of the Process, Human Dimensions,Social Equity Attitude List-II (Thinker)1. D. Waldo 2. W. F. Willoughby3. F. Herzberg 4. Herbert Simon Codes :3 2 1 4,4 3 2 1,3 2 4 1,2 4 1 3,a The most preferred perspective to distinguish public and private in administration is-”,Agency ,Interest ,Access ,Commitment,b Lack of courage to delegate properly and of knowledge how to do it is one of the most general causes of failure in organization.- Who said it ?
8. The semantic barrier to communication is not-”
9. With the advent of development administration - the Collector has emerged as-”
10. Who referred the interaction between politicians and administrators as -˜administrative politics-™ ?
11. The expectancy theory of motivation depends upon the employee-™s perception of the relationship between-”
12. Which of the following is not correctly matched ?
13. The Central Council of Local Government-”
14. An urban body in the modern sense was first established in the year-”
15. The Powers - Authority and Responsibilities of Panchayats in India are mentioned in the Article-”
16. Reappropriation is permissible only-”
17. Audit of State Government Accounts is a-”
18. Voluntary provisions of 73rd Constitutional Amendment include-”
19. Politicisation of bureaucracy means-”
20. It transforms the representative democracy into participatory democracy.- This statement has a reference to-”,Parliamentary System of the Government ,Article 40 of the Constitution,73rd Constitutional Amendment ,74th Constitutional Amendment,c Which of the following is not a corporation form ?,Unit Trust of India ,Indian Oil Corporation,Food Corporation of India ,State Bank of India,b Which of the following statements are correct about the National Development Council ?, It symbolises a federal approach to planning., It was set up by a proposal of the Cabinet Secretariat in August 1952., It was reconstituted in 1968 on the recommendation of the Administrative Reforms Commission., The initiative to convene its meeting lies with the Planning Commission.,c For which form of Public Enterprise it is said that It is a child of the State which grows into maturity as soon as it is born- ?
21. The techniques applied in performance appraisal in U.S.A. are-”
22. It is a comprehensive account of the receipts and expenditure of the Government under various heads and sub-heads of the Budget-”
23. Which of the following is the Central Personnel Agency in India ?
24. The concept of Citizens-™ Charter as a means to greater accountability and openness was first introduced in 1991 in-”
25. Which of the following provided for the appointment of the same person as Governor of two or more States ?