1. Arrange the 'Evolutionary Phases of Public Administration' in ascending order: (NET November 2021 Shift II)

A. Principles of Administration

B. Politics‐Administration Dichotomy

C. Era of Challenge

D. Crisis of Identity

E. Public Policy Perspective

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2. According to Nicolas Henry which of the following are the fundamental A's of New Public Management? (NET November 2021 Shift II)

A. Agility

B. Alertness, Accountability

C. Alignment, Adaptability

D. Authority

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3. Patrick Dunleavy has enumerated which of the three key components of New Public Management (NPM)? (NET November 2021 Shift II)

4. Which of the following are correct about Comparative Public Administration (CPA)? (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

A. CPA focuses on the structure, process, behaviour, roles and impact of public administrative system at the international level.

B. Comparative Administrative Group (CAG) was set up in 1963.

C. CAG was funded by American Political Science Association.

D. W. Riggs was the chairman of CAG from its inception till the end of 1970.

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5. The rise and growth of the concept of New Public Administration can be traced to: (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

A. Honey Report on Higher Education for Public Services - 1967

B. Minnowbrook Conference II - 1988

C. Philadelphia Conference on the Theory and Practice of Public Administration - 1967

D. Public Administration in a Time of Turbulence - 1971

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6. Which one of the following is NOT hallmark of Development Administration? (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

7. Identify the correct statements regarding Abraham Maslow's need of hierarchy. (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. Esteem needs

B. Self-actualisation

C. Belonging needs.

D. Safety needs

E. Entertaining needs

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8. Fred Riggs developed ideal models to analyse the administrative systems of different countries. Choose the correct ones from the following. (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. Fused

B. Focussed

C. Prismatic

D. Rainbow

E. Diffracted

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9. Identify the correct statements regarding administrative ideas: (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. Fred Riggs advocated the sala model of administration.

B. Abraham Maslow advanced the idea of hierarchy of needs.

C. Chester Barnard advanced the idea of Hawthorne effect.

D. Max Weber gave the idea of legal-rational authority.

E. Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick are associated with the concept of POSDCORB.

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10. Development Administration encompasses: (NET August 2024 Shift I)

(A) Activities relating to Centralization and limiting the number of agencies that deal with development to be undertaken

(B) New management agencies and systems must be devised

(C) Introduction of competent planning and monitoring delivery

(D) Appointing trained personnel to give specialized support

(E) Regulating the agencies that deal with commercial activities

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

11. Management by objectives was the key idea put forward by Peter Drucker in: (NET August 2024 Shift I)

12. Match the following, form the correct pairs: (NET December 2004)

13. Implement any new programme in administration, the first essential requirement is: (NET December 2004)

14. The principle of the span of control has been elaborated by: (NET December 2004)

15. Which school has laid down ‘seven proverbs' in the field of Public Administration? (NET December 2004)

16. Informal organisation is generally: (NET December 2004)

17. Hawthorne experiments were conducted during: (NET December 2004)

18. The New Public Administration lays emphasis on: (NET December 2004)

19. Who is regarded as an exponent of ecological approach in the study of Public Administration? (NET December 2004)

20. Match List - I and List-II by using the codes given below: (NET December 2005)

21. Identify the concept that is not associated with the 'Sala Model of Riggs: (NET December 2005)

22. Identify the scholar who has remarked that 'The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape, its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge': (NET December 2005)

23. According to max weber, some of the characteristics of fully developed bureaucratic form of organization are: (NET December 2005)

i. Hierarchical order

ii. Officials holding office of election

iii. promotion is by achievement alone

iv. Selection on the basic of objective qualification

Select the right answer from the codes given

24. Which one of the following organisational principles promotes motivation. (NET December 2005)

25. The essential feature of authority is: (NET December 2005)

26. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2006)

27. Who is the author of the book 'Administrative Behaviour"? (NET December 2006)

28. The principle that every member of an organization should report to one and only one leader is called: (NET December 2006)

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

30. Who among the following propounded the Fourteen principles of organization? (NET December 2006)

31. The principles of Scientific Management developed by Taylor include: (NET December 2006)

(i) Incentive of high wages

(ii) Standardization of work methods

(iii) Esprit De Corp

(iv) Standardization of working conditions

Which of these are correct?

32. Who among the following was the first to emphasise the need for a separate study of Public Administration? (NET December 2006)

33. The Minnowbook Conference took place in the year (NET December 2006)

34. Match List -I  with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2007)

35. Match List - I with List - II and. the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2007)

36. What is the correct sequence in which the following theories/approaches appeared? (NET December 2007)

(i) Human Relations Theory

(ii) Max Weber's Bureaucratic Theory

(iii) New Public Management

(iv) Decision-making Theory

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Codes:

37. Consider the following landmarks in the emergence and growth of New Public Administration (NET December 2007)

(i) Honey Report

(ii) Philadelphia Conference

(iii) Publication of "Towards a New Public Administration"

(iv) Minnowbrook Conference

What is the correct sequence of the above? Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Codes:

38. Assertion (A): Exaggerated emphasis on bureaucratic and technocratic structures of management has done a great deal of harm to democratic polity in India.

Reason (R): Initiative from below has become the main victim.

(NET December 2007)

39. Which one of the following theories focusses on is called informal organization? (NET December 2007)

40. Who called Hierarchy the 'scalar process'? (NET December 2007)

41. What is Herbert A Simon's approach to the study of Public Administration? (NET December 2008)

42. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled Reason (R). (NET December 2008)

Assertion (A): Delegation is a functional imperative for all types of Organisations.

Reason (R): The Chief Executive cannot provide effective leadership without sufficient powers.

In the context of the above two statements which one of the following is correct?

43. The Word "Bureaucracy" was first coined by: (NET December 2008)

44. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (NET December 2008)

45. The behavioural critics of Max Weber's model of bureaucracy are: (NET December 2008)

(i) Robert Marton

(ii) Crozier

(iii) Fred Riggs

(iv) Karl Deutsch

Select the correct answer from the code given below:

46. In communications theory, the ability to act in response to forced consequences is called: (NET December 2008)

47. Consider the following 'Hierarchy of needs' (NET June 2008)

(i) Safety needs

(ii) Esteem needs

(iii) Social needs

(iv) Self-actualization needs

(v) Physiological needs

According to Maslow, the correct sequence of the above is :

48. The emergence of "New Public Administration" was initially associated with: (NET June 2008)

49. Assertion (A): Max Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy is not suitable for developing countries.

Reason (R): Weberian bureaucracy is too much obsessed with rules and regulations

(NET June 2009)

50. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (NET June 2009)

51. Administration is now so vast an area that a philosophy of administration comes close to being a philosophy of life. This has been said by: (NET June 2009)

52. Who is the author of the book Administrative State? (NET June 2009)

53. Which of the following statements are correct in the arena of administrative theories: (NET DECEMBER 2023)

A. Ideal type bureaucracy was formulated by Max Weber.

B. Frederick Taylor is considered as the father of Scientific Management Theory.

C. Henry Fayol is considered to be the father of Human Relations Theory.

D. The Hawthorne experiment is associated with Bureaucratic theory.

54. Assertion (A): Whitley type councils have been set up in India.

Reason (R): The councils have the powers to take up the grievances of individual employees on priority basis.

Select your answers to these items using the codes given below: (NET December 2009 Paper II)

55. Assertion (A): Bureaucracy has contributed to the growth of democracy but it has also stood in the way of democratisation.

Reason (R): Democracy does not need bureaucracy.

Select your answers to these items using the codes given below: (NET December 2009 Paper II)

56. Who, among the following, is considered as the high priest of development administration? (NET December 2009 Paper II)

57. Who, among the following, has been considered as “the St. Paul of the concept of bureaucracy and capitalist nationality?” (NET December 2009 Paper II)

58. When did Minnowbrook-I Conference take place? (NET December 2009 Paper II)

59. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET December 2010 Paper II)

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

Assertion (A): In his “Administrative Theory” Herbert Simon followed Positivist Approach.

Reason (R): It is based on the assumption that administration can be reduced to a science by considering facts and not dealing with the values.

Code:

60. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2010 Paper II)

61. Identify the correct sequence in which the following theories / approaches appeared: (NET December 2010 Paper II)

(i) Human Relations Theory

(ii) Max Weber’s Bureaucratic Theory

(iii) New Public Management

(iv) Decision-Making Theory

Codes:

62. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (NET December 2010 Paper II)

63. ‘Grape wine’ refers to (NET December 2010 Paper II)

64. The concept of ‘New Public Administration’ is associated with (NET December 2010 Paper II)

65. The theories of ‘X’ and ‘Y’ were propounded by (NET December 2010 Paper II)

66. The book “Administration in Developing Countries: The theory of Prismatic Society” was written by (NET December 2010 Paper II)

67. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2010 Paper II)

68. Match list – I with the list – II and select correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2010 Paper II)

69. Identify the correct sequence in which the following theories appeared? (NET June 2010 Paper II)

I. Decision-Making Theory

II. Human Relations Theory

III. Classical Theory

IV. Public Choice Theory

Codes:

70. The communication that passes across different departments refers to (NET June 2010 Paper II)

71. F.W. Taylor’s concept of ‘Scientific Management’ was criticised by (NET June 2010 Paper II)

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

73. Development Administration was defined as a ‘goal oriented’ and ‘change oriented’ Administration by (NET June 2010 Paper II)

74. According to Max Weber, which one of the following types of authority is the basis of modern bureaucracy? (NET June 2010 Paper II)

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

76. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET December 2011 Paper II)

Assertion (A): The Administrative Science should study facts about human behaviour without getting involved in the question of values.

Reason (R): It is not necessary for science to possess concepts before it develops principles.

Select the correct answer from the codes below:

77. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): (NET December 2011 Paper II)

Assertion (A): According to Herbert Simon, ‘maximising decision is not possible’.

Reason (R): He believes that rationality is possible in administrative behaviour.

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78. The scholar who after finding Max Weber’s model of bureaucracy irrelevant and inappropriate for explaining the administrative ecology of developing and transitional societies, developed Prismatic and Sala Models for the study of such societies, was (NET December 2011 Paper II)

79. Which of the following is not one of the ‘functional foremen’ who sit in the ‘planning room’, as suggested by F.W. Taylor? (NET December 2011 Paper II)

80. According to Fayol, an administrator or a manager must possess six types of abilities. Which of the following is not one of those suggested by him? (NET December 2011 Paper II)

81. Which one of the following is not correct about New Public Administration? (NET December 2011 Paper II)

82. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer from the codes below: (NET June 2011 Paper II)

83. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2011 Paper II)

84. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET June 2011 Paper II)

Assertion (A): The Systems Approach gave rise to contingency management.

Reason (R): It is also known as ‘Modern Organisation Theory’.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

85. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET June 2011 Paper II)

Assertion (A): Henri Fayol distinguishes between Public Administration and Private Administration.

Reason (R): He says that all undertakings observe the same general principles of administration.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

86. The idea of ‘committed bureaucracy’ in India was advocated by (NET June 2011 Paper II)

87. Who regards coordination as central core of management and says it implies “harmonious ordering of parts”? (NET June 2011 Paper II)

88. When Fred W. Riggs said that ‘Nepotism and favouritism play a dominant role in the making of appointments to various administrative posts, he was referring to (NET June 2011 Paper II)

89. Delegated legislation contributed to the (NET June 2011 Paper II)

90. In which book of the following, Robert Dahl explained the Theory of Decision Making? (NET December 2012 Paper II)

91. Who said, "Successful Management involves Management by Objectives"? (NET December 2012 Paper II)

92. Which of the four major issues of Public Administration were debated in the Minnowbrook Conference, 1968? (NET December 2012 Paper II)

93. 'Jacksonian Theory' is also called (NET December 2012 Paper II)

94. 'Clect' is the sub-system of Riggs' Prismatic society (NET December 2012 Paper II)

95. The concept of 'Informal Organisation' was profounded by (NET December 2012 Paper II)

96. The Book 'Introduction to Public Administration' was authored by (NET December 2012 Paper II)

97. Which one of the following is not a feature of F.M. Marx's guardian bureaucracy? (NET December 2012 Paper II)

98. Match the thinkers with the concepts: (NET June 2012 Paper II)

99. The Informal Channel of Communication is also known as (NET June 2012 Paper II)

100. Which of the following statements is not correct with regard to Riggs' Perspective of Societies? (NET June 2012 Paper II)