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Section 1
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Max Weber championed a bureaucratic model that uses the to produce greater organizational output?
Hierarchy, technical expertise, centralized authority
Decisions based on the convenience and efficiency -"means to ends" - or on the basis of economics may be at the heart of ethical behavior
False
What is the right process of the general budgeting steps in the federal government?
Preparation, approval, implementation, and auditing
Elite theory assumes that decision making is done by a few powerful individuals as opposed to the pluralism model
True
These are street-level bureaucrats, EXCEPT
Legislators
Objectives should be, EXCEPT
Marginal
Max Weber defined the main characteristic of bureaucracy as official jurisdictional areas, hierarchy, administration based on written document, division of labor, and general rule in the office management
False
Mary Parker Follett emphasized the importance of reciprocal relationship which is based on "power with", not on "power over"
True
In organizational theories, Theory X assumes that workers dislike work and avoid it whenever possible while Theory Y assumes individuals enjoy working and embrace responsibility
True
Outcomes are typically units produced or the quantity of services provided; output reflects how well the department is meeting its mission and goals
False
Where can public goods be placed in the matrix?
non-excludable and non-rivalrous
When is the due date of the federal budget?
October 1st
In the Cooper (2004)'s article 'Big Question in Administrative Ethics', he introduces five normative foundations. What is not included in the five normative foundations?
Individualism
The incrementalist school argues that as pressures resulting from crises and deadlines limit the amount of time available for decision makers to find a "good enough" alternative until a better one presents itself. This is called "muddling through"
True
According to Lipsky (1980), BLANK are those that provide public benefits and maintain public order. They include...
Street-level bureaucrats
Jane Adams led the settlement movement, founding the Hall House in Chicago
True
The "Iron Triangle" consists of:
Congress, bureaucrats, interest groups
What is a public goods among the below goods?
Air
In the article Principles of Scientific Management (1916), Frederick Taylor emphasizes
Efficiency
According to Bozeman (2007), publicness is best defined not on the basis of the legal status of institutions or their ownership but according to the degree of political authority constraints, and endowments affecting the institution
True
The rational-comprehensive school of decision making argues that the best decisions are logical, that is, decision makers try to meticulously account for every possible consequence of choosing one course of of action over another
True
POSDCORB stands for
Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting
Public goods have two distinct aspects: excludability and rivalrous consumption
False
Among decision making theories, 'rational model' is grounded in economic principles such as scarcityof resources, perfect information, full knowledge of alternatives, and opportunity cost
True
These are the strategies for avoiding poor decisions , except:
Leader should state his/her preferences
To limit the spoil system, merit system and tenure were adopted
True
The word "POSDCORB" was coined by
Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick
The normative foundations of administrative ethics are, EXCEPT:
Economic resources
Which of the following is not the consequence of spoil system of recruitment?
Permanent tenure
Scientific management seeks one best way to increase efficiency based on the assumption of economic man
True
Elton Mayo's human relations approach, particularly Hawthorne experiment, contributed to enhancing our understanding of how the feeling, thoughts, and behavior of work-group members and managers affect performance
True
Hierarchy of ethics includes four levels of ethics from lower to higher level such as BLANK morality, professional ethics, organizational ethics and social ethics.
Personal
These are the characteristics of centralization, except:
Greater opportunity for employee/client participation
What is the right process of decision-making? Please number the seven steps of decision-making properly.
1, 7, 5, 4, 2, 3, 6
In the bounded rational model, decisions have three characteristics. What is not included in the three characteristics?
Simple feedback rules
Woodrow Wilson proclaims that administrative questions are political questions
False
BLANK is an action of exposing to the public or person (organizations) with authority about the wrongdoings within an organization.
Whistleblowing
In the article "Hierarchy, virtue, and the practice of public administration (Cooper 1987)", the author explains that internal goods are achieved through practice and dedication to excellence; shared by the community. These are examples of internal goods that public administrators should have, except:
Power
Goodnow (1900) argued that politics is of the will of the state while administration is related to the execution
True
In the organizational theories in public administration, the classic school was primarily concerned with improving social equity and fairness; it was characterized by democratic values, informal organizations, and non-monetary incentives in management
False
Wilson and Goodnow have not explained politics-administration dichotomy discipline
False
The federal organization 'Government Accountability Office (GAO)' is responsible for auditing the federal budget
True
BLANK can exist when there are excessive directive leadership, group homogeneity in terms of ideals and background, and isolation from outside influences.
Group think
Who was the originator of politics-administration dichotomy?
Woodrow Wilson
The human relations theory focused on the
Social and psychological factors
According to Harold Lasswell, policy processes are, EXCEPT:
Budgeting
Under the spoil system, inefficiency was widespread, profiteering was common, and scandals were recurrent
True
In Kingdon's streams model, decision-making processes involves three separate, independent streams. What is not included in the three streams?
Process stream
What is the job of the executive branch?
Carrying out laws
In the budgeting process, an appropriations bill is...
a bill that will lay out how money will be spent on specific projects
Section 2
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