PPA 265 Final Exam Study Guide – Comprehensive Course Review & Final Assessment
Preparation Material
Personnel management - ANS ✔✔traditional approach of managing people in the organization.
The manager sets out the structure and procedures and fits staff into key positions
Personnel Administration - ANS ✔✔technical aspects of maintaining a full complement of
employees within the organization
•recruiting, selecting, hiring, retaining, and developing new employees
Interest groups (or pressure group - ANS ✔✔organizations separate from government though
often in close partnership with government, which attempt to influence public policy
Policy communities - ANS ✔✔along the same lines of the interest group factors policy
communities take it a step further and say that the relevant groups and the bureaucracy even
enter into a symbiotic policy making community not just influence.
budgeting - ANS ✔✔Allocation of scarce resources implying a choice between potential objects
of expenditure; ultimate statement of what a government stands for
dimensions of budgeting as a policy document - ANS ✔✔political instrument,
managerial/administrative instrument, economic instrument, accounting instrument
political instrument - ANS ✔✔allocates scarce budget resources
managerial/administrative instrument - ANS ✔✔determines means of providing programs &
services, establishes cost and methods of evaluation
economic instrument - ANS ✔✔directs economic growth and development
Preparation Material
Personnel management - ANS ✔✔traditional approach of managing people in the organization.
The manager sets out the structure and procedures and fits staff into key positions
Personnel Administration - ANS ✔✔technical aspects of maintaining a full complement of
employees within the organization
•recruiting, selecting, hiring, retaining, and developing new employees
Interest groups (or pressure group - ANS ✔✔organizations separate from government though
often in close partnership with government, which attempt to influence public policy
Policy communities - ANS ✔✔along the same lines of the interest group factors policy
communities take it a step further and say that the relevant groups and the bureaucracy even
enter into a symbiotic policy making community not just influence.
budgeting - ANS ✔✔Allocation of scarce resources implying a choice between potential objects
of expenditure; ultimate statement of what a government stands for
dimensions of budgeting as a policy document - ANS ✔✔political instrument,
managerial/administrative instrument, economic instrument, accounting instrument
political instrument - ANS ✔✔allocates scarce budget resources
managerial/administrative instrument - ANS ✔✔determines means of providing programs &
services, establishes cost and methods of evaluation
economic instrument - ANS ✔✔directs economic growth and development
