Which of the following are the models of reforms identified by Peters as alternatives to the traditional public administration?
1. Market Model
2. Participatory State Model
3. Flexible Government Model
4. Deregulated Government Model
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Assertion (A): Public Administration is primarily a science of observation rather than of experiment. Reason (R): It is so with all social sciences, because social problems do not admit of laboratory experiment under artificially produced conditions.
Which of the following statements are correct regarding Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy?
1. It is an iron cage of rule-based rational control.
2. It is a key part of the 'rational-legal authority'.
3. Bureaucracy means 'domination through knowledge' in the form of merit.
4. It enjoys popular acceptability in a democracy.
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Who among the following hold the view that administration comprises of the work of only those persons who are engaged in performing managerial functions in an organisation?
1. Luther Gullick
2. Herbert Simon
3. Victor Thomson
4. Henry Fayol
Who said that "Bureaucracy can exist only where the whole service of the state is removed from the common political life of the people, its chiefs as well as its rank and file:
"All undertakings require planning, organisation, command, coordination and control and in order to function properly, all must observe the same general principles". Who said this ?
Consider following statements.
1. M. P. Follet is the fore runner of behavioural approach to organisational analysis.
2. Follet stressed the sociological and psychological aspects of organisational behaviour.
3. Taylorism over-simplified human motivation in the organisation.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Which of the following are reasons or facts that made Goodnow separate the spheres of Politics and Administration?
1. Both were separate disciplines.
2. Separation of powers provided the basis of distinction.
3. He was keen to promote Administration as an independent discipline.
4. Politics and Administration are two separate functions of government.
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