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Public Administration

2025

MCQs

Question 1
One Core Values of Public Administration is:
  • Social equity
  • Accountability
  • Positive Attitude
  • None of these
Explanation: Social equity is a core value emphasizing fairness and justice in public services.
Question 2
The application of business practices in Public Management is called:
  • Public Administration
  • Public Management
  • New Public Service
  • None of these
Explanation: Public Management applies business principles like efficiency and performance to public sector operations.
Question 3
Who is considered as father of Bureaucracy:
  • Max Weber
  • Taylor
  • Drucker
  • None of these
Explanation: Max Weber developed the theory of bureaucracy with structured hierarchy and rules.
Question 4
Network Governance promotes:
  • Inter-organizational coordination
  • Bureaucratic structure
  • Formal association
  • None of these
Explanation: Network governance focuses on collaboration across organizations.
Question 5
Proactive Strategies imply to:
  • Actions based on condition and circumstances
  • Reaction based on events
  • Anticipation and prevention based on planning
  • None of these
Explanation: Proactive strategies involve planning ahead to prevent issues before they occur.
Question 6
Organizational Structure is a:
  • Framework to perform managerial and operating tasks
  • Framework to solve issues
  • Framework to bring social reforms
  • None of these
Explanation: Organizational structure defines roles and responsibilities for task execution.
Question 7
MBO focuses on:
  • Performance against set targets
  • Performance against reactive strategies
  • Performance against expectations
  • None of these
Explanation: Management by Objectives measures performance based on predefined goals.
Question 8
“Wealth of Nations” is authored by:
  • F.W Taylor
  • Adam Smith
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • None of these
Explanation: Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, a foundational economics text.
Question 9
Line-Item Budgeting includes:
  • Only inputs
  • Only outputs
  • Both (A) & (B)
  • None of these
Explanation: Line-item budgeting focuses on inputs like expenses rather than outputs.
Question 10
Rationalizing expenditure for economy can reduce:
  • Fiscal Deficit in government budget
  • Recreational activities
  • Expensive projects
  • None of these
Explanation: Efficient spending helps reduce fiscal deficits in budgets.
Question 11
Favoring political supporters by giving jobs is known as:
  • Spoils system
  • Referral system
  • Affiliate System
  • None of these
Explanation: Spoils system refers to rewarding supporters with government positions.
Question 12
Hiring and promoting people on ability is known as:
  • Merit system
  • Bureaucratic system
  • Spoils system
  • None of these
Explanation: Merit system ensures recruitment based on competence and qualifications.
Question 13
Open System is:
  • More complex than close system
  • Simpler than close system
  • Easier to handle
  • None of these
Explanation: Open systems interact with environment, making them more complex.
Question 14
Assigning work to others is known as:
  • Proscription
  • Delegation
  • Interdiction
  • None of these
Explanation: Delegation involves assigning authority and tasks to subordinates.
Question 15
Where people are held responsible for their decision making is known as:
  • Autonomy
  • Own Responsibility
  • Self Sufficiency
  • None of these
Explanation: Autonomy allows individuals to make decisions and be accountable.
Question 16
Diversity Management means:
  • Acknowledgment of difference among people and valuing them
  • Identifying diversity based on exclusion
  • Ethnic identification
  • None of these
Explanation: Diversity management promotes inclusion and respect for differences.
Question 17
Good Governance does not include:
  • Accountability
  • Nepotism
  • Answerability
  • None of these
Explanation: Nepotism contradicts good governance principles like fairness.
Question 18
Good Governance implies:
  • Existence of honest government
  • Existence of fair judges
  • Existence of honest civil servants
  • None of these
Explanation: Honest governance ensures transparency, accountability, and integrity.
Question 19
One of the major challenges of local government is:
  • Inadequate devolution of power and functions
  • Adequate devolution of power and functions
  • Inadequate evolution of power and functions
  • None of these
Explanation: Limited transfer of authority weakens local government effectiveness.
Question 20
Bureaucracy is considered as:
  • Traditional Authority
  • Personal Authority
  • Leadership Authority
  • None of these
Explanation: Bureaucracy is based on rational-legal authority, not listed in the options.