1 Review quizzes 1 2 and 3 closely MIDTERM According to Denhardt ad Grubbs which of the following is NOT considered a tenet of democracy o Equality o Efficiency o Individualism o NOT liberty administration o Agencies o Interest groups o Congress According to Robert Katz the two most important skills for top level administrators or managers are conceptual and human Which of the following is NOT one of Leonard White s assumptions of the study of public o Starts from the base of management rather than law o Uniformity across all three levels of government federal state and local o Administration is the heart of the problem in modern government o NOT an administration is a scientific field An example of a redistributive police or program would be Temporary Assistance to Needy Families TANF The Iron Triangle framework aims to explain the dynamic relationships between what three institutional actors o What are the two general ways that workers in government or any organization are thought to make or arrive at decisions o To be rational and incremental framework would be An example of administrative decision in Michael Lipsky s street level bureaucracy o A social worker s decision to remove a child from his or her home o A police officer deciding whether or not to administer a speeding ticket Bozeman s notion of publicness as discussed in the chapter by Denhardt and Grubbs implies that o A strict dichotomy between what is public and what is private o That public organizations exist within a federalist system o That there are degrees or gradations of what is public o A sense of public service motivation among public workers Woordrow Wilson would NOT BE generally considered part of the politics school in public administration scholarship The Court s ruling in Bi Metallic Investment Company v s State Board of Equalization held that adjudicatory headings are necessary prior to the adoption of a jurisdiction wide tax Herbert Simon was the first to propose the fact value dichotomy arguing that management scholarship should concern itself with only facts no values Which of the following general executive functions is NOT included in Gulick and Urwick s acronym of POSDCORB o Budgeting o Staffing o Directing o NOT regulating List any 3 general differences between public and private management specifically mentioned in Graham Allison s classical article o Time perspective government has a shorter time horizon o Duration politically appointed top managers duration is shorter o Performance measurement little agreement on measuring performance in the public sector while financial returns market share and compensation are measures in the private sector o Personnel constraints public sector civil service vs political appointments and unionization of government complicate government personnel management o Equity and efficiency more emphasis placed on equity in government o Public process vs private process public sector is exposed to more scrutiny o Role of the media government must contend more with the media o Persuasion and direction public managers have to mediate decisions while private managers proceed with more direction o Legislative and judicial impact public managers are subject to greater scrutiny by lawmakers and the courts o Bottom line public sector does not have a clear bottom line Which of the following is NOT one of Frederick Taylor s four principles of scientific management mentioned in Chapter 2 of Holzer and Schwester o Adoption of laws or formulas to determine highest task efficiency o Workforce specialization o Equal division of responsibility between managers and workers o NOT incentivizing workers to adopt multiple methods of task completion Which of the follow is NOT a characteristic of the Weberian bureaucracy o Centralized authority o Formal lines of communication o Standardization of operations o NOT frontline employee empowerment What is an example of Philip Selznick s theory of co optation o Encouraging neighborhood and public school leaders to make recommendations for the implantation of a new youth crime prevention program in a city The results of the Hawthorne experiments the one with the lights suggests that one s job performance is influenced by the group and social factors A public manager who heavily monitors and or micro manages her or his subordinates would be acting in accordance with Douglas McGregor s Theory X Henri Fayol s 14 principles of Management is associated with the classical era of organizational studies Which Act effectively abolished the spoils system of federal government employment o The Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 Which of these is NOT an on the job OTJ method of employee development outlined in Chapter 3 of Holzer and Schwester o Special assignments o Job rotation o Coaching o NOT presenting Civil service systems are generally designed to do o Depoliticize government employment decisions o Protect public workers from arbitrary termination o Establish a merit based system Which of these is an opportunity cost of attending a full time Master in Public Administration program o Full time salary forgone o Gaining valuable work experience o Reduction in leisure time Bounded rationality is characterized by or implies o Simple heuristics i e simple searching stopping and decision rules o Incremental policy change Which scholar is credited with the idea of bounded rationality Under what decision making model is the idea of policy windows theorized o Herbert Simon o Garbage can model To avoid groupthink in organization decision making leaders should o Appoint a devil s advocate in the group discussion Which of Graham Allison s three decision making models or lenses suggests following pre established plans or standardized operating procedures SOPs o Organization behavior process model According to the organization process behavior model in Allison s framework why did Khrushchev decide to withdraw Soviet missiles from Cuba o He simply did not have a plan to counter the U S naval blockade 2 Know Leonard White s assumptions of public administration Defined public administration as the management of men and materials in the accomplishment of the purpose of the state the objective of public administration is the most efficient utilization of the resources at the disposal of officials and employees 3 Be able to match authors with schools of thought or eras of organization Evolution of Organizational Theory studies Classical Era o Taylor o Weber
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