1 Which of the listed is a question that public administration seeks to answer how can we offer more or better services with available resources how can we maintain our level of service while spending less money does the service enhance social equity 2 Which of the listed is NOT a question that public administration seeks to answer who shall make law and what that law should be 3 According to Frederickson which of these is NOT to blame for representative democracy presently operating in a way that either fails or only very gradually attempts to reverse systematic discrimination against disadvantaged minorities committee legislature entrench bureaucracy non democratized political party procedures inequitable revenue raising capacity in lesser governments of the federal system 4 Social equity is minorities the activities designed to enhance the political power and economic well being of defines minorities as populations who lack political and economic resources 5 Frederickson agrees with Wilson and Goodnow there is a policy administration dichotomy 6 According to Frederickson Simply put seeks to change those policies and structures that systematically inhibit social equity New Public Administration 7 Representative bodies are political in nature which suggests a certain measure of transparency and accountability False True 8 Taylor advocated for two particular ends these are four means to those Two ends Two ends are Productivity and Efficiency Means to those ends are standard work procedures as developed through empirical examination specializing training and divided labor 9 Weber championed a bureaucratic model that uses these listed below to produce greater organizational output hierarchy technical expertise merit based appointments in conjunction with uniform and impersonal procedures 10 Productivity and effectiveness are the primary end of Taylor s scientific management False Productivity and efficiency 11 Which of the following is NOT a counter bureaucratic notion according to Frederickson decentralization projects contracts sensitivity training organization development responsibility expansion confrontation client involvement 12 Which of these government units are NOT at the local level Local level government represents 35 000 units of government School districts business districts fire districts water districts and many others make up another 50 000 government units five basic local governments are counties municipalities townships school districts and special district 13 According to Wilson the second period of national growth is characterized by constitutions are framed to do away with absolute rulers and substitute in popular control administration is neglected for these higher concerns 14 Popular culture depicts a proverbial picture of the public organization where individuals Become stifled losing all sense of independence pride and initiative 15 It is suggested that anywhere in government tarnishes the image of everyone in government corruption 16 The is another often invisible part of the public service delivery system nonprofit sector 17 The nonprofits are considered formal government entities They are not considered to be formal government entities but often receive government funding and deliver government services 18 Public administration s target audience must be multifaceted Taxation 19 One unique power granted to government is 20 Taxes are NOT collected by private and nonprofit sectors 21 Which of the listed characteristics are NOT part of the definition of bureaucracy jurisdictional boundaries hierarchy reliance on written documents expertly trained managers The management of the organization subscribes to general rules which can be learned and applied uniformly more or less 22 Wilson says we must study what can government do properly and successfully and how it can do these proper things with the utmost possible effectiveness 23 According to Wilson administration is government in action it is the most obvious part of government 24 According to Wilson the first period of national growth is characterized by absolute rulers and administrative system adopted to absolute rule 25 According to Wilson the third period of national growth is characterized by sovereign people undertake to develop administration under the new constitution that has brought them into power 26 Wilson claims that the field of administration is a field of business 27 According to Wilson administration and hurry and strife of politics are inseparable 28 Politics has to do with policies or expressions of the state will 29 Politics has to do with the execution of policies 30 According to Goodnow politics must have a certain control over administration using the words in the broad senses heretofore attributed to them 31 POSDCORB stands for Planning ordering staffing directing coordinating reporting budgeting 32 Employee salaries and benefits make up between 50 and 85 percent of government budgets 33 The traditional human resource elements do NOT include Creating and maintaining a diverse workforce to match the rate at which the public is diversifying affording workers a measure of power in the workplace False True False True False True True enabling workers to fulfill and balance both work and family obligations enabling workers to hold managers accountable for merit principles taking into account alternate methods of motivating workers identifying ways to foster a culture of cooperation and teamwork in the workplace 34 Productive human resource management can be thought of as a lively open system True Productive human resource management can be thought of as a lively open system where external and internal environments are interconnected 35 As society becomes more diverse it is imperative that public sector employees reflect a similar measure of diversity 36 In high performing organizations human resource managers view the internal and external environmental factors as True True True True 37 Responsibility for human resource HR management belongs to public managers 38 Managers are an HR department s most important customer 39 Value free research undermines the inherent importance of morality and ethics 40 Groupthink is characterized by extreme conformity that gets in the way of any critical analysis 41 Bureaucracies are synonymous with a managerial approach which is predicated upon a Hierarchical structure formalization and uniform procedure that are carried out rather impersonally 42
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