Public Administration MCQs 2003

Behaviorism is associated with:
A. Rationalism
B. Communication
C. Socialism
D. Humanism

Which of the following is not a feature of good governance?
A. Accountability
B. Transparency
C. Nepotism
D. Rule of law

The author of “The Function of the Executive” is:
A. F. W. Taylor
B. Chester Bernard
C. Mary Parker Follet
D. Henry Fayol

Which of the following is not of the core values of public administration?
A. Equity
B. Efficiency
C. Effectiveness
D. Bureaucracy

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 imperative of a system identified by the Talcott Parsons is:
A. Efficiency
B. Effectiveness
C. Adaptation
D. Entropy