PPA 265 final Exam Questions With Correct
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Personnel management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-traditional approach of
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managing people in the organization. The manager sets out the structure and
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procedures and fits staff into key positions
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Personnel Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-technical aspects of
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maintaining a full complement of employees within the organization
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•recruiting, selecting, hiring, retaining, and developing new employees
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Interest groups (or pressure group - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-organizations
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separate from government though often in close partnership with government,
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which attempt to influence public policy
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Policy communities - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-along the same lines of the interest
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group factors policy communities take it a step further and say that the relevant
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groups and the bureaucracy even enter into a symbiotic policy making community
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not just influence.
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budgeting - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Allocation of scarce resources implying a
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choice between potential objects of expenditure; ultimate statement of what a
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government stands for | |
, dimensions of budgeting as a policy document - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-political
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instrument, managerial/administrative instrument, economic instrument,
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accounting instrument |
political instrument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-allocates scarce budget resources
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managerial/administrative instrument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-determines means | | | | |
of providing programs & services, establishes cost and methods of evaluation
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economic instrument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-directs economic growth and
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development
accounting instrument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-holds elected officials responsible
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objectives of budgeting process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-allocation, distribution,
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stabilization, growth |
allocation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ensures appropriate funding goes to sectors of
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the economy where needed
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distribution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Ensures the balance in public funding
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between regions, classes and sectors of government and business reflects public
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policy
stabilization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-using public spending to stabilize the
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macroeconomy
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Personnel management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-traditional approach of
| | | | | | |
managing people in the organization. The manager sets out the structure and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
procedures and fits staff into key positions
| | | | | |
Personnel Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-organizations
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separate from government though often in close partnership with government,
| | | | | | | | | |
which attempt to influence public policy
| | | | |
Policy communities - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-along the same lines of the interest
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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
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not just influence.
| | |
budgeting - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Allocation of scarce resources implying a
| | | | | | | | |
choice between potential objects of expenditure; ultimate statement of what a
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government stands for | |
, dimensions of budgeting as a policy document - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-political
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instrument, managerial/administrative instrument, economic instrument,
| | | | |
accounting instrument |
political instrument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-allocates scarce budget resources
| | | | | | |
managerial/administrative instrument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-determines means | | | | |
of providing programs & services, establishes cost and methods of evaluation
| | | | | | | | | | |
economic instrument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-directs economic growth and
| | | | | | | |
development
accounting instrument - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-holds elected officials responsible
| | | | | | |
objectives of budgeting process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-allocation, distribution,
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stabilization, growth |
allocation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ensures appropriate funding goes to sectors of
| | | | | | | | |
the economy where needed
| | | |
distribution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Ensures the balance in public funding
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between regions, classes and sectors of government and business reflects public
| | | | | | | | | | |
policy
stabilization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-using public spending to stabilize the
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macroeconomy
