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True or False) Under the spoils system inefficiency was widespread, profiteering was common, and scandals were recurrent.

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True or False) Under the spoils system inefficiency was widespread, profiteering was common, and scandals were recurrent.

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True

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Weber's bureaucracy is a machine-like structure under which ______is paramount." (p.53)

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Efficiency

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True or False: W. Wilson proclaims that administrative questions are political questions.

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False

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24.Enumerate the historical events in order. a. Jackson b. Garfield c. Pendleton d. Wilson

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a. Jackson (1829) b. Garfield (1881) c. Pendleton (1883) d. Wilson (1887)

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Max Weber

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his notion of Bureaucracy mandates uniform procedures: -is Hierarchical: power is centralized, individual responsibilities are jurisdictional, and uniform procedures are executed in the interest of EFFICIENCY

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(True or False) Simon advocated that management science inquiry should be concerned with both facts and values.

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...

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11. The Brownlow Commission yielded recommendations directed towards:

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The Executive

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True or False) Wilson says we must study what can government do properly and successfully, and how it can do these proper things with the utmost possible effectiveness.

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True

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Fact-value Dichotomy

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based on premise that management science inquiry be concerned only with Facts. (Simon)

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18.The "Iron triangle" consists of ______:

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Congressional subcommittees, Bureaucrats, interest groups

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8.POSDCORB stands for:

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a)Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting

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(True or False) Employee salaries and benefits do not make up between 50 and 85 percent of government budgets.

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False

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Deming Wheel

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everyone shoulod plan, collect data, analyze,construct the work, and keep the circle rotating to maintain quality properly in a company

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Herbert Simon

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believed that the classical management principles of administration should be tested empirically

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Bureaucracies do not tend to be antithetical to the nature of democratic institutions.

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false

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Democracies

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emphasize openness and citizen participation -antithetical to Bureaucracies

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19 century vs. 20 century What policy?

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19century: Distributive policy 20century: Redistributive policy

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Robert Dahl

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argued that values were important to the study of Public Administration

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Robert Merton

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"Trained in capacity" -worried about overconformity

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10. The "Ten Principles", which are now regarded as classical guidelines for organizational management" were established by _____1952.

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Urwick

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The traditional human resource elements outlined in Ch3 do Not include: A) Productive and fair budgeting B) Hiring the right workers C) Training and developing workers D) Rewarding workers E) Micromanaging

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A, E

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Dwight Waldo

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believed that value-free research undermined the inherent importance of morality and ethics

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Enumerate the historical events in order: • Jackson's spoils system • Assassinated Garfield • Pendleton Act • W. Wilson's dichotomy

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Jackson (1829) Garfield (1881) Pendleton (1883) Wilson (1887)

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16.(True or False) Street-level bureaucrats rarely have power over the lives of ordinary citizens according to Lipsky.

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False

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(True or False) "Objective" may be replaced with "absolute".

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...

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What is Not a phenomenon occurred due to the information asymmetry in principal-agent theory? A) Moral hazard B) Adverse selection C) Bounded rationality D) Shirking E) Averse effort

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...

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Neo-Classical School

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Herbert Simon Robert Merton

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9.__________ refers to the consolidation of management functions. Decisions flow from top to bottom.

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centralization

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Brownlow Commission

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established by congress in 1936 -sought to apply classical management principles to public sector instituions -recommended expansion of White house staff

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Organizational Economic Theory

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ensuring that managers and rank-and-file employess are working for the betterment of the organization -"Principle Agent Theory"

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(True or False) The culture of an organization embodies its value system.

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true

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Nineteenth-century policies were largely ( )-meaning the government provided specific services that the free market would not, i.e., education, a national defense, and other services that did not require significant interpretation on the part of public administrators.

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...

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John Rohr

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justifies Bureaucratic discretion, given assumption that bureaucracies are microcosms of the american people

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These are street-level bureaucrats, EXCEPT:

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Legislator

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7.Weber championed a bureaucratic model that uses these (listed below) to produce greater organizational output.

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a) Hierarchy, technical expertise, merit-based appointments

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Choose an incorrect matching. A) Wilson: PA-Politics dichotomy B) Simon: Material-nonmaterial dichotomy C) Selznick: Informal-formal dichotomy D) Barnard: Monetary-nonmonetary dichotomy

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B) Simon: Material-nonmaterial ditchotomy

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Bureaucracy

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closed system that executes policies in a technical rationalist manner

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Urwick's 10 principles

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objective, specialization, coordination, authority, Responsibility, definition, correspondence, span of control, Balance, continuity

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Systems theory

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argue that organization must be able to adapt to changing condtions

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2. F. Taylor advocated for two particular "ends", these are four means to those two ends. (p. 50)

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Standard work procedures, use of empirical examination, specialized training, division of labor

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Human resource management (HRM) systems must:

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Embrace employee difference

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13. Admnistrators who interpret policies are making________:

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Value-based judgements

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(True or False) Productive human resource management cannot be thought of as a lively open system.

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False

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15.Due to discretion public administrators fall victim to policy preferences from these stakeholders:

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A) Interest groups B) Legislators C) Media groups D) Rank-and-file citizens E) ALL OF THE ABOVE (CORRECT)

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Chester Barnard

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believes workers are motivated by more than money worker incentives: material inducements, personal nonmaterial opportunities, desirable physical conditions of work, ideal benefactors, habit and attitude conformity, opportunity for participation, associational attractiveness, condition of communication

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Frederick Taylor's 4 principles

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(1911) -standard work procedures were believed to engineer productivity. -Specialization (Taylorism) increases worker productivity -fusing together of work procedures and specialized training -Equal division of Labor

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The Hawthorne studies concluded that

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worker's needs extend beyond economic considerations

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