Public Administration MCQs 2002

A condition in which the availability of each alternative and its potential payoff and costs are all associated with probability estimates is:
A. State of risk
B. State of certainty
C. State of mild certainty
D. State of high certainty

An attempt to integrate common business practices from the United States and Japan into one middle ground framework has been termed as:
A. Theory X
B. Theory Y
C. Type Z Model
D. Universal Model

The owners, Employees, Board or Directors and Culture will form the organization’s:
A. Internal Environment
B. External Environment
C. Task Environment
D. General Environment

The appropriate managerial behavior in a given situation depends on a wide variety of elements is:
A. Classical Approach
B. Quantitative Approach
C. Behavioral Approach
D. Contingency Approach

A goal set by and for top management of the organization is:
A. Tactical Goal
B. Strategic Goal
C. Operational Goal
D. Specific Goal

Balancing and reconciling possible conflicts among goals is:
A. Communication
B. Leading
C. Inconsistency
D. Optimizing

A plan that generally covers a span of one year or less is:
A. Operational Plan
B. Intermediate Plan
C. Long range Plan
D. Tactical plans

Behavior that does not conform to generally social norms will be considered as:
A. Arrogant Behavior
B. Arbitrary Behavior
C. Ethical Behavior
D. Unethical Behavior

Conceptual and Diagnostic skills in an organization are mostly used by:
A. General managers
B. Top managers
C. Middle managers
D. First line managers

A theory suggesting that people are motivated by a hierarchy of needs was advanced by:
A. Douglas Mc Gregor
B. Arthur D. Little
C. Abraham Maslow
D. F. W. Riggs