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Public Administration Test-9

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Which of the following institutions performs auxiliary functions?

  1. Union Public Service Commission

  2. Railway Ministry

  3. Home Department

  4. Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation


Correct Option: A

White calls the 'house-keeping services' as:

  1. institutional

  2. technical

  3. auxiliary

  4. general


Correct Option: C

When the delegation is based on customs and conventions it is known as:

  1. formal

  2. direct

  3. indirect

  4. informal


Correct Option: D

Pfiffner and Presthus have classified staff into:

  1. auxiliary and technical

  2. general, technical and auxiliary

  3. institutional and house-keeping

  4. auxiliary, technical and institutional


Correct Option: B

When an administrative authority in a department is vested in a single individual, what is it called?

  1. Bureau

  2. Board

  3. Commission

  4. Committee


Correct Option: A

Line Activities are those:

  1. which are directly concerned with accomplishing the objectives of the organization

  2. which provide support to the main functions of the organization

  3. which provide advice to the Chief Executive

  4. all of the above


Correct Option: A

The Cabinet Secretariat in India is a:

  1. line agency

  2. auxiliary agency

  3. staff agency

  4. primary agency


Correct Option: C

Mooney and Reiley have called the principle of hierarchy as:

  1. channel system

  2. superior-subordinate relationship

  3. equivalence of responsibility

  4. scalar process


Correct Option: D

To whom are the public corporations in India accountable to?

  1. President

  2. Parliament

  3. Executive

  4. Prime Minister


Correct Option: B

Chester Barnard pointed out that authority is a 'fiction'. The orders for action are accepted only when the order falls under:

  1. zone of satisfaction

  2. zone of difference

  3. zone of indifference

  4. zone of acceptance


Correct Option: C

Authority is most closely related to:

  1. size of organization

  2. human personality

  3. incentives and rewards

  4. control and supervision


Correct Option: D

In a charismatic authority system, the receiver of the order obeys the order because he sees in the giver of the order:

  1. magical powers

  2. extraordinary wisdom

  3. divine powers

  4. a rare vision


Correct Option: A

The principle of 'span of attention' was formulated by:

  1. Graicunas

  2. Gullick

  3. Mooney

  4. Seckler-Hudson


Correct Option: A

To Chester Barnard, the following statement can be attributed:

  1. formal organization is less important than informal organization

  2. both formal and informal organizations are important

  3. formal organization remains more important than informal organization

  4. formal organizations play a key role in administrative effectiveness


Correct Option: B

Luther Gullick's POSDCORB represents the functions of:

  1. line agency

  2. staff agency

  3. operational agency

  4. controlling agency


Correct Option: A

When a higher official confers authority on a lower official to take decision, it is known as:

  1. discretion

  2. decentralization

  3. delegation

  4. deconcentration


Correct Option: C

'Bureaucratic staff increases in inverse proportion to the amount of work done.' This view can be attributed to:

  1. Parkinson

  2. Laurence Peter

  3. Warren Bennis

  4. Rogers


Correct Option: A

GANGPLANK is a device to:

  1. reduce the defects of hierarchy

  2. resolve the problem of centralisation

  3. lengthen the span of control

  4. improve the process of delegation


Correct Option: A

Foremanship and Piece Rate principles were given by:

  1. Henry Fayol

  2. F. W. Taylor

  3. Warren Bennis

  4. Bensis Likert


Correct Option: B

Which of the following is not a correct statement about the principle of Hierarchy?

  1. It hinders superior-subardinates relationship

  2. It facilitates exercise of authority

  3. It helps in coordinating the activities

  4. It helps in channellising communication


Correct Option: A

The concept of 'line' and 'staff' is borrowed from:

  1. police administration

  2. military administration

  3. revenue administration

  4. development administration


Correct Option: B

Which one of the following is not the basis of Max Weber's Authority theory?

  1. Traditional Authority

  2. Charismatic Authority

  3. Political Authority

  4. Legal Authority


Correct Option: C

According to Terry, coordination is concerned with : (A) Amount of efforts (B) Timing of efforts (C) Methods used in efforts (D) Directing to course of efforts Select the correct answer from the codes below :

  1. 2, 3 and 4

  2. 1, 2 and 4

  3. 1, 2 and 3

  4. 1 and 2


Correct Option: A

Which of the following is not a line agency?

  1. Department

  2. Corporations

  3. Public Undertakings

  4. Union Public Service Commission


Correct Option: D

The principle of 'gangplank' was propounded by:

  1. Fayol

  2. Deutsch

  3. Haykawa

  4. Follett


Correct Option: A
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