Top 250+ Solved Public Administration Theory and Practice MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who declared that “If our civilisation fails, it will be mainly because of a breakdown of administration?”
a. Charles A.Beard
b. L.D.White
c. Donham
d. Ordway Tead
Q. “Public administration is the heart of the problem of modern government” is said by
a. W.B.Donham
b. Charles. A.Beard
c. L
d. White
Q. Public administration is ---------------
a. The basis of government
b. An instrument of national integration
c. A stabilising force in society
d. An instrument for providing services
Q. The hallmark of public administration is:
a. Consistency of treatment
b. Public responsibility
c. Community service
d. External financial control
Q. ”Politics has to do with expressions of the state will whereas administration has to do with the execution of these policies.”This is attributed to:
a. L.D.White
b. Goodnow
c. Woodrow Wilson
d. Willoughby
Q. Which of the following is not a hindrance in the evolution of the science of public administration, according to Robert Dayal?
a. Values permeating administration
b. Uncertainty of human behaviour
c. Intellectual capacity of public administrationists
d. Socio cultural impact on administration.
Q. Who among the following is known as the father of American Public Administration ?
a. Woodrow Wilson
b. L D. White
c. Goodnow
d. Willoughby
Q. Who among the following has called hierarchy as the scalar process?
a. Mooney
b. Reiley
c. L
d. White d) Gullic
Q. Who among the following said scalar chain is a universal phenomenon?
a. Gullic
b. L D. White
c. J
d. Millet d) Mooney
Q. The concept of unity of command is complementary to the principle of :
a. span of control
b. authority
c. scalar chain
d. supervision
Q. Who defines authority as “the right to give orders and power to exact obedience:
a. Henry Fayol
b. J D. Millet
c. C I. Barnard
d. Max Weber
Q. Coordination is the first principle of organisation, who said:
a. Mooney
b. Simon
c. Newman
d. M P. Follet
Q. Which of the following is an informal means of coordination?
a. planning
b. inculcating institutional spirit
c. leadership
d. conferences
Q. The most important means of coordination is:
a. hierarchy
b. consultation
c. planning
d. centralised housekeeping agency
Q. “Delegation means conferring of specified authority by a higher authority to lower authority” who made this statement
a. Terry
b. Millet
c. Mooney
d. Pfiffner