In earlier centuries when administrative work was less and simple, most of the inter-departmental disputes were resolved by the
Ministers
Secretaries
Committees
Chief Executive
Who among the following will attend to matters of the general co-ordination of important administrative measures of the Government of India which affect more than one Ministry?
Cabinet Secretariat
Ministers
Chief Executive
Inter-departmental Committee
Who maintains a separate Division of Coordination?
Cabinet Secretariat
Chief Executive
Joint-Secretaries
Civil servants
Which of the following means of coordination serves a useful purpose by way of exchange of information and interpretation of policy and programme and for co-ordinating the operation of services?
Staff Agency
Cabinet
Inter-departmental Committees
Regional Councils
Union Public Service Commission and Election Commission are examples of
Department Line agency
Public Corporation
Staff agency
Independent Regulatory Commission
Damodar Valley Corporation is an example of
Private Corporation
Public corporation
Staff Agency
None of the above
Which is the largest form of administrative organization that comes directly under the Chief Executive?
Department
Public Corporation
Staff Agency
All of the above
Who suggested that there should be a Bureau of Administration in each Department to supervise and co-ordinate the work of different units?
Dimock
Follett
Willoughby
Appleby
Who among the following is the author of the book entitled Essentials of Public Administration?
Gladden
Dimock
Gulick
Urwick
Deconcentration, delegation and devolution are three types of vertical decentralization. This was mentioned in the Humans Development Report of
1992
1994
1993
1991
Which of the following emerges out of the exhaustive studies made by the Human Development Report-1993?
Most Third World countries have only attempted deconcentration
The real decentralization in the form of devolution has not been achieved so far
Fesler calls it illusory decentralization
All of the above
An organisation is the combination of
Society and politics
Structure and human beings
Groups and sub-groups
None of the above
Who said, “an organisation that ceased to change is moribund”?
Simon
Gladden
Barnard
Dimock
Among the following the more important part in determining the type of organisation is
The human resource
The material resource
The political environment
All of the above
The overall goal of Scientific Management is
Higher individual output
Higher collective profit
Higher industrial efficiency
None of the above
Scientific Management is also known as
Socio-economic theory
Physiological organisation theory
Psycho-political theory
Human behaviour theory
The word ‘bureaucracy’ was first coined by an economist of France. He was
M. Weber
M. Kaplan
Vincent de Cournay
K. Marx