PAVAN KUMAR’S IAS Public Administration Test - I Time: 180 Mts. Date: 28" August 2016 Max Marks: 250 Part -A Answer the following questions in about 150 words each, (5 X 10=50 marks) 1. Public Administration has had a parent and foster parent. The mother discipline is political science; the field’s foster parent is management. Discuss. The Blacksburg Perspective is basically neo-institutionalist, and it contrasts sharply with the approach of public choice theorists to organizations and Public Administration. Human relations thinkers have failed to define the ethical pre-suppositions of their scientific study. Discuss. Behavioural approach replaces the theory of sovereignty by that of legitimacy In the age of liberalization, the role of state intervention in development must be market-friendly. Critically analyze. Part-B Good Governance and Democracy are contradiction in terms. Discuss marks)7. Bureaucracy stands between the state and public opinion to prevent profanation of the siate, the crown on the bureaucratic pyramid. Critically analyze the above statement, (15 marks) 8. Wilson has facilitated the expansion of an ethical sense of public duty beyond the conceptual confines of the civil service and into the entire intellectual terrain of public administration, Discuss. (10 marks) 9. Scientific management had a major influence on the growing reform and economy movements in public administration. Discuss (15 marks) 10. “It is a mistake to think that social progress is to depend upon anything happening to the working people: some say that they are to be given more material goods and all will be well; some think they are to be given more “education” and the world will be saved. It is equally a mistake to think that what we need is the conversion to "unselfishness" of the capitalist class”. Mary Parker Follet. Discuss. (20 marks) 11.Those who criticise Weberian model are not criticising Weber but the present day bureaucracies which more or less reflect the model. Discuss the relevance of Weber for present day administration. (15 marks) 12.Elton Mayo’s Huran Relations Theory proved beyond doubt that the assumptions of ‘rabble hypothesis” are factually incorrect. (15 marks) 13, Simon's concept of efficiency equates it with economy and leads to an inconsistent relationship between means and ends, Discuss. (20 marks) 14.“Decision making in government is a plural activity.” Discuss the various factors involved in decision making within government, (15 marks)15, McGregor’s Theory Y can be quite useful to line-staff relationships. Discuss (15 marks) 16, Argyris believed that Simon’s reliance on the descriptive-empirical approach and the concept of ‘satisificing man’ would support status-quo in organizational life. (15 marks) 17. New Public Service Approach can be defined as a combination of new public management and new public administration. Discuss (20 marks)