Line and Staff Agency - Political Science Coaching Centre

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Line and Staff Agency

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1. Choose the statements which is false: (KERALA SET 2022 JANUARY)

A) Line agencies are a means to an end.

B) Line agencies come in direct contact with people.

C) Line agencies are executing agencies

D) Staff agencies are not advisory and consultative agencies

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2. Which among the following is an Auxiliary Agency? (DU MA 2022)

1. Prime Minister's Office

2. Planning Commission

3. Cabinet Committees

4. Finance Ministry

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3. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is an example of: (Himachal Pradesh SET 2017)

(A) Line Agency

(B) Staff Agency

(C) Auxiliary Agency

(D) All of these

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4. Who among the following are called staff officials? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

(A) Field Workers

(B) Advisory Staff

(C) Those who help the chief executive in the performance of his primary functions

(D) Those who help the chief executive in the implemen- tation of his functions

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5. Auxiliary Agencies performs ---- function. (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

A) Advisory

B) Primary

C) Secondary

D) Technical

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6. Who one among the following implement(s) the 'Public Policies'? (BHU MA 2019)

1. The Chief Executive

2. The Speaker of Lok Sabha

3. The Chairman of Rajya Sabha

4. Civil Servants

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7. Which of the following is concerned with the substantive functions of the government? (WEST BENGAL SET JANUARY 2023)

(A) Staff agency

(B) Line agency

(C) Auxiliary agency

(D) Staff and auxiliary agencies

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8. The argument put forward by the specialists in favour of their better position and greater role in administration is: (RAJASTHAN SET 2023)

(A) The generalists are not suitable for all policy-making decisions.

(B) The generalists do not know about the general policy-making of the government.

(C) The specialists can fast track the decision making process in the government.

(D) The government do not need generalists at all in the present scenario of fast technological development.

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9. Who said this "Staff and Line are coordinators operating not in a hierarchical relation to staff over line, but on a horizontal plane of authority and responsibility under the Chief Executive"? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2016 PAPER III)

(A) Albert Lepawsky

(B) Dimock and Dimock

(C) Oliver Sheldon

(D) Pfiffner and Presthus

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10. The concept of ‘Line and Staff’ Agencies in Public Administration is borrowed from (KERALA SET 2013 DECEMBER)

A) Revenue Administration

B) Police Administration

C) Military Administration

D) International Administration

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11. Who among the following termed auxiliary function as the ‘housekeeping function’? (KERALA SET 2019 JULY)

A) Elton Mayo

B) L. D White

C) Willoughby

D) F. M Marx

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12. Who among the following termed the 'auxiliary function' as the house-keeping function? (NET December 2006)

(A) W. F. Willoughby

(B) L. D. White

(C) Pfiffner and Pres thus

(D) Dimock and Dimock

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13. Give the correct answer using the codes given below: (WB SET 2015 Paper III)

Assertion (A): The term 'line' is drawn from the military organization

Reason (R): 'Line' agencies are those which perform house-keeping services in an organization.

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true

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14. Who among the following scholars makes a distinction between 'policy making' and ‘executive decisions'? (WB SET 2017 Paper III)

(A) Charles E. Lindblom

(B) Thomas Dye

(C) Amitai Etzioni

(D) Geoffrey Vickers

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15. Who argued that the staff in an extension of the Chief Executive's persona? (WB SET 2017 Paper III)

(A) Luther Gullick

(B) Chester Barnard

(C) Lyndall Urwick

(D) Warren G. Bennis

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16. The concept of ‘Line and Staff’ Agencies in Public Administration is borrowed from (NET June 2010 Paper II)

(A) Revenue Administration

(B) Police Administration

(C) Military Administration

(D) International Administration

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17. Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2011 Paper II)

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

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18. Which one of the following is the correct function of Staff Agency? (NET June 2012 Paper II)

(a) Issuing orders to the subordinates

(b) Controlling the activities of the subordinates

(c) Advising the Chief Executive

(d) Providing Institutional Services

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19. Assertion (A): The Information Technology has made Staff Agency indispensable.

Reason (R): Staff Agency assists the Line Agency in decision making.

(NET June 2012 Paper II)

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

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20. The most logical criterion to distinguish a line function from staff is (NET December 2012 Paper III)

(a) the functional relationship

(b) the authority relationship

(c) the grouping of functions

(d) the departmentalization

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21. Line organization is most suitable when (WEST BENGAL SET 2018 PAPER II)

(A) Methods of operation are complex

(B) Expertise of specialists is required

(C) Business is carried on large scale

(D) Staff is huge in number

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