Multiple Choice PA301 Final Exam
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Marc Holzer and Richard Schwester define public administration primarily as:
1. All of the answers here
2.Forming and implementing public policy
3. A management-based strategy
4. A science - CORRECT ANSWER 2. Forming and implementing public policy
The "New Public Management" Era of Public Administration:
A. Is the first era of US public administration, starting at the beginning of the 20th Century and
includes Maslow as leading thinker
B. Includes "New Public Service" as one of its key theories
C. Is how the current era of US public administration is referred to by most scholars
D. Follows after the "Traditional Public Administration" Era and focuses on the citizen as a consumer
- CORRECT ANSWER D. Follows after the "Traditional Public Administration" Era and
focuses on the citizen as a consumer
The term "bureaucrat" is most commonly associated with:
Government administrators
Nonprofit executives
Elected officials
Politicians - CORRECT ANSWER Govt administrators
The constitution authorizes four branches of government.
T or F - CORRECT ANSWER False
, The president serves as the leader in the executive branch.
T or F - CORRECT ANSWER True
A leading scholar who focused his research on organizational culture and leadership is:
Douglas McGregor
Edgar Schein
Abraham Maslow
Max Weber - CORRECT ANSWER Edgar schein
This individual is most commonly associated with the neo-classical school of management:
Follett
Gulick
None of the individuals listed here
Simon - CORRECT ANSWER Simmon
An example of a legislative body at the local government level is:
Security Council
Electoral College
House of Representatives
City Council - CORRECT ANSWER City council
Culture is "a basic pattern of assumptions learned by a group as it solved its problems of external
adaptation and internal integration..."
True
False - CORRECT ANSWER True
The first federal law establishing the civil service was:
The Pendleton Civil Service Act
The Wilson Civil Service Act
The Congressional Civil Service Reform Act
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Marc Holzer and Richard Schwester define public administration primarily as:
1. All of the answers here
2.Forming and implementing public policy
3. A management-based strategy
4. A science - CORRECT ANSWER 2. Forming and implementing public policy
The "New Public Management" Era of Public Administration:
A. Is the first era of US public administration, starting at the beginning of the 20th Century and
includes Maslow as leading thinker
B. Includes "New Public Service" as one of its key theories
C. Is how the current era of US public administration is referred to by most scholars
D. Follows after the "Traditional Public Administration" Era and focuses on the citizen as a consumer
- CORRECT ANSWER D. Follows after the "Traditional Public Administration" Era and
focuses on the citizen as a consumer
The term "bureaucrat" is most commonly associated with:
Government administrators
Nonprofit executives
Elected officials
Politicians - CORRECT ANSWER Govt administrators
The constitution authorizes four branches of government.
T or F - CORRECT ANSWER False
, The president serves as the leader in the executive branch.
T or F - CORRECT ANSWER True
A leading scholar who focused his research on organizational culture and leadership is:
Douglas McGregor
Edgar Schein
Abraham Maslow
Max Weber - CORRECT ANSWER Edgar schein
This individual is most commonly associated with the neo-classical school of management:
Follett
Gulick
None of the individuals listed here
Simon - CORRECT ANSWER Simmon
An example of a legislative body at the local government level is:
Security Council
Electoral College
House of Representatives
City Council - CORRECT ANSWER City council
Culture is "a basic pattern of assumptions learned by a group as it solved its problems of external
adaptation and internal integration..."
True
False - CORRECT ANSWER True
The first federal law establishing the civil service was:
The Pendleton Civil Service Act
The Wilson Civil Service Act
The Congressional Civil Service Reform Act
