Public Administration MCQs 2001

Which of the following is one of the features of bureaucracy conceived by Max Weber?
A. Authority
B. Hierarchy
C. Publicness
D. Civil society

Which of the following is an essential component of a formal organization?
A. Decentralization
B. Formal Structure
C. Power
D. Centralization

Bureaucracy is a form of:
A. Political Organization
B. Social Organization
C. Community Organization
D. Private organization

McGregor’s name is most commonly associated with one of the following:
A. Bureaucratic Theory
B. Scientific Management
C. Theory X and theory Y
D. Human Relations

Legal-rational authority is a core concept of:
A. Public Choice Theory
B. Theory of Emergency
C. Maslow’s Theory of Motivation
D. Theory of Bureaucracy

One of the four functional imperatives of a system identified by Talcott Parsons is:
A. Efficiency
B. Effectiveness
C. Adaptation
D. Entropy

“Entropy” is a law of nature in which all forms of organizations move towards:
A. Growth and Continuity
B. Continuous Improvement
C. Rebirth and Emergency
D. Disorganization and Death

One choice theory is economic explanation of:
A. Religion
B. Islam
C. Political decision making
D. Psychology

System Theory is associated with the work of the following:
A. Leonard White
B. Mary Parker Follet
C. Talcott Parsons
D. F.W. Taylor