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Introduction To Public Administration MCQs For CSS - PMS - PCS
Introduction To Public Administration MCQs For CSS - PMS - PCS
The study of government decision making, the analysis of the policies themselves,
the various inputs that have produced them, and the inputs necessary to produce
alternative policies is called
(a) Administration of Authority
(b) Public administration
(c) Property administration
(d) Administrative Capacity
Answer: b
Note: The management of public programs is called Public administration.
The “translation of politics into the reality that citizens see every day” is called Public
administration.
The concept of “separation between politics and public administration” was first
propounded by:
(a) Aristotle
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Machiavelli
Answer: b
A theory of administration which describes the idea that the state was created by
“man” to serve the people and act in their interests is called:
(a) Historical Theory
(b) Locational Theory
(c) Mechanistic Theory
(d) Human Relations Theory
Answer: c
Indian Civil Service was introduced during the Governor General-ship of: (CSS
2019)
(a) William Bentinck
(b) Lord Curzon
(c) Lord Dalhousie
(d) Lord Cornwallis
Answer: d
Note: Civil service Charles Cornwallis reformed, modernised and rationalised it. Hence,
Charles Cornwallis is known as the ‘Father of Civil Service in India’. He introduced
Covenanted Civil Services (Higher Civil Services) and Un-covenanted Civil Services (Lower
Civil Services).
Who was the first Indian to be directly recruited to the Indian Civil Service?
(a) Satyendra Nath Tagore
(b) Surendranath Bannerjea
(c) Womesh Chandra Bannerjea
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: a
Note: Satyendranath was selected for the Indian Civil Service in June, 1863. He completed
his probationary training and returned to India in November 1864.
The ‘spoils system’ in the USA began during the period of:
(a) Jefferson
(b) Jackson
(c) Washington
(d) Adams
Answer: b
Answer: d
Two or more sub systems working together to produce more than the total of what
they might produce working alone is
(a) Open System
(b) Closed System
(c) Sub System
(d) Synergy
Answer: d
An attempt to integrate common business practices from the United States and
Japan into one middle ground framework has been termed as:
(a) Theory X
(b) Theory Y
(c) Type Z Model
(d) Universal Model
Answer: d
The owners, Employees, Board or Directors and Culture will form the
organization’s:
(a) Internal Environment
(b) External Environment
(c) Task Environment
(d) General Environment
Answer: b
Answer: a
Note: The founding father of scientific management theory is Frederick W. Taylor
(1856-1915). He was an American inventor and engineer. His two most important works
were Shop Management (1903) and The Principles of Scientific Management (1911).
What is OD?
(a) Organizational development
(b) Organizational disputes
(c) Organizational demands
(d) Organizational drift
Answer: a
Which of the following reports deals with the relations between the specialists and
generalists?
(a) Fulton Committee Report
(b) Kothari Committee Report
(c) Haldane Committee Report
(d) Sarkaria Commission Report
Answer: a
The President of U. S. who laid the foundation of the study of public administration
was:
(a) President Wilson
(b) President Hoover
(c) President Kennedy
(d) President Roosevelt
Answer: a
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