| Post Name | Lecturer in Public Administration |
|---|---|
| Department | Kerala Collegiate Education |
| Question Paper Code | 185/2014 |
| Date of Test | 5 November 2014 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | OMR Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
“Budget, if merely an estimate, would not be the master problem of Public administration’,
This statement is made by:
Answer
A. Willoughby
2
The classical theory is mainly concerned with |
Answer
A. Formal organisation structure
3
Hawthorne Experiment by Elton Mayo was conducted from :
Answer
B. 1924-1932
4
The budget was formally introduced in India by :
Answer
A. Sir James Wilson
5
The institution of lok avukta was created for the first time by the state of :
Answer
C. Maharashtra
6
Which was the fret legal and institutional framework to check corruption and redress
| citizen's grievances in India?
Answer
D. O) Public Servants (Enquiries) Act
7
Who gave the first comprehensive explanation of organisation from the systems point of
| view?
Answer
B. Chester Barnard
8
Which of the following is not correctly matched?
Answer
C. Commission of Enquiry Act - 1953
9
The word ‘Budget’ is mentioned in which of the Article of the Indian Constitution :
Answer
D. None of the above
10
Who coined the phrase ‘Sunset Law’?
Answer
A. Craig Barnes
11
In which year, the principles of double entry book keeping were evolved?
Answer
A. 1494
12
The concept of the balanced budget was discarded every where after the World War IT and
who supported that spending could be a source of economic stability :
Answer
C. Keynes
13
Thompson
Answer
D. 1774
14
(iC) WTi2 (D) 1776
“Administration is a long and slightly pompona word, but it has a humble meaning for it
means to care for or look after people, to manage affairs”. This statement was made by :
Answer
A. Simon
15
"If one Civilization fails, it will be mainly because of a breakdown of administration”. This |
atatement was made by :
Answer
C. Simon
16
Under which Article of the Constitution of India, a statement of estimated expenditures of
the Government of India is laid before the Parliament?
Answer
B. Article 112
17
Who coined the acronym ‘POSDCORD to sum up the different administrative processes?
Answer
B. Lyndal Urwick
18
Who is considered as the father of comparative public administration?
Answer
C. Dwight Waldo
19
Which approach concentrates on what public administration ‘is’ that is, it describes and
analyses ‘actual’ administrative situations?
Answer
A. Normative approach
20
Which Indian University was the first one to start diploma course in public administration?
Answer
D. LLP.A
21
On which date, a decision to formulate Citizen's charter in India was taken?
Answer
C. 24 May, 1996
22
Which of the following pair is not correctly matched?
Answer
A. Henry Fayol : Industrial and General Management
23
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
Answer
D. Annual Financial Statement: Article 112
24
The most effective means of citizen's control over administration is :
Answer
C. General Elections
25
Which Article of the Indian constitution provides for an independent office of the comptroller
and Auditor General of India?
Answer
A. Article 147
26
Which Article of the Indian constitution provides for an independent office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India?
Answer
D. Article 148
27
The book ‘Reinventing Government’ deals with:
Answer
C. New Public Management
28
“Electronic Government, or E-Governance is the use of information technology, in particular the internet, to deliver public services in a much more convenient, customer oriented, cost-effective and altogether different and better way”. This statement is associated with:
Answer
D. Douglas Holmes
29
In Indian till now how many Finance Commissions have been constituted?
Answer
D. 14
30
Arrange the following landmarks in the emergence and growth of New Public Administration in a sequence: 1. Philadelphia Conference 2. Honey Report 3. Publication of towards a New Public Administration 4. Minnowbrook Conference.
Answer
B. 2, 1, 4, 3
31
‘Leadership depends upon three things, that is the individual, the followers and the conditions’ is said by:
Answer
D. Chestard Barnard
32
The classic ‘Three E’s of Public Administration are:
Answer
A. Economy, Efficiency and Effectiveness
33
Minnowbrook Conference.
Answer
D. 2,4,3,1
34
Which of the following is not theories of or approaches to leadership?
Answer
D. Traditional theory
35
‘Gang Plank’ according to Henry Fayol is a:
Answer
D. way to cut on delay oriented red tape
36
Who invested the ‘Flow Process Chart’ to help in the elimination of unnecessary steps in an operation?
Answer
C. Frank Gilberth and Lillian Gilberth
37
The main principle which can be derived from Mc Gregor’s Theory:
Answer
B. Integration
38
Who coined the term ‘Development Administration’?
Answer
C. Goswami
39
The ‘Prismatic Sala Model’ given by F.W. Riggs aims at studying:
Answer
B. Administration in developing countries
40
“It is getting to be harder to run a constitution that to frame one”
Answer
B. 1,2,3
41
Which of the following is not theories of or approaches to leadership?
Answer
Question Cancelled
42
The scientific management stressed upon: 1. Predictability. 2. Technical competence. 3. Specialisation. 4. Rationality. Select the correct code:
Answer
C. 1, 2, 3, 4
43
Which of the following is not true about Herzberg’s two factor theory?
Answer
Question Cancelled
44
Who described the classical approach as the engineering approach?
Answer
D. Urwick
45
Who cointed the term ‘Development Administration’?
Answer
A. Weidner
46
Robert Black
&. Millet
(A) 1,2, 3,4,5 (B) 1,2, 5,4
() 1,2,3 (D) 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Which of the following 1s incorrectly matched?
Answer
A. Prismatic Society Revisited — 1975
47
Who is the disciplinary authority in respect to All India Services employees?
Answer
B. President of India
48
Advancement involves:
Answer
C. Increase in pay
49
Which of the following is not true about Herzberg's two factor theory?
Answer
D. Working Conditions : Responsibility
Who described the classical approach as the engineering approach?
50
Informal group
3
Specialisation
d.
Reliability
Select the correct code :
Answer
B. 2,3,4
51
Who is the disciplinary authority in respect to All India Services employees?
Answer
B. President of India
52
Rehability
Select the correct code :
Answer
A. 1,2
53
(C) 1997 (D) 1993
Match :
List I List I
Answer
A. Maslow i Hierarchy of Needs
54
Who identified the four bases of departmental organisation also known as 4P- Formula?
Answer
A. Gullick
55
Who translated Max Weber's book entitled ‘The Theory of Social and Economic
Organisation’?
Answer
D. Taleott Parsons and AM. Henderson
56
Under which Article of the Indian Constitution empowers the legislature to regulate the
recruitment and service conditions of persons appointed to Public Services and posts :
Answer
C. Article 309
57
Who laid down the concept of civil service neutrality in USA?
Answer
D. Hoover Commission
58
“Policies are general statements or understandings which guide or channel thinking in
decision—making of subordinates” is said by :
Answer
C. Koontz and O’Dannel
59
Who gave a four fold classification of bureaucracy viz. Guardian, Caste, Patronage and
Merit?
Answer
A. F.M. Marx
60
USA
Select the correct code :
Answer
B. 1,2
61
Match :
List I List II
Answer
D. System 4 4. Exploitative
62
Which was the first country to adopt the scientific system of recruitment based on merit
principle?
Answer
D. China
63
The merit principle in U.S.A. was introduced by :
Answer
A. Pendleton Act of 1883
64
Kecruitment is the “cornerstone of the whole public personnel structure. Unless recruitment
policy is soundly conceived there can be little hope for building a first rate staff’. Who made
this statement?
Answer
C. Glenn Stahl
65
Administrative Staff College of India was established in 1957 on the recommendation of -
Answer
D. All India Council for Technical Mducation
66
A system is not concerned with :
Answer
D. Value — oriented
67
Which of the following not correctly matched?
Answer
C. Urwick — Unity of command
68
Which of the factor is not identified as satisfiers as given by Herzberg?
Answer
B. Company Policy
69
System Approach is also known as:
Answer
C. Modern Theory
70
They differed from the traditionalists in their basic approach to the organisation which they
characterised as a social system consisting of individuals, informal groups and inter-group
relationship in addition to the formal structure. This statement is attributed to :
Answer
D. Mohit Bhattacharya
71
‘Test used for predicting future performance of students is called :
Answer
D. Prognostic Test
72
The hierarchy of learning process is associated with :
Answer
A. Gagne
73
Select the auditory teaching aid from the following :
Answer
B. Radio
74
Which one of the following Model of Teaching is from Information Processing Family?
Answer
C. Concept Attainment Model
75
Which one of the following is not a skill of Stimulus variation”
Answer
A. Oriented trial and error attempts
76
The Null Hypothesis was developed by :
Answer
D. Ronald Fisher
77
The research procedure, in which group assignment is known to the experimenter but not the
subject is called :
Answer
C. Single blind technique
78
Which one of the following is a Pre-Experimental Design of research?
Answer
D. One-Shot Case Study Design
79
Which one of the following is a Probability Sampling Method?
Answer
C. Systematic sampling
80
In research, publishing another person's research work as one’s own is called :
Answer
A. Plagiarism
81
That no. tax shall be levied or collected except by authority of law is stated im ————————
of the Constitution.
Answer
B. Article 265
82
As per the National Food Security Act, 2013, priority households are entitled to receive
———— at subsidised prices.
Answer
A. Five kilograma of food grains per person per month |
83
The rneht to vote or stand as a candidate for election is a:
Answer
C. statutory right
84
Under the Persons with Disabilities (Hqual Opportunities Protection of Rights and Full
Participation) 1995, a person with disability is one who suffers from not less than
. ———— Of any disability mentioned in section 2(i) of the Act as certified by a medical
authority.
Answer
A. 40%
85
That “law” as mentioned in Article 21 would include an “ordinance” was held by the Supreme
Court in the case of :
Answer
D. A. K. Roy V Union of India
86
Punishment for giving and taking dowry under section 3 of the Dowry Prohibition Act 196]
shall be :
Answer
C. Imprisonment for not less than five years and fine
87
That the law declared by the Supreme Court shall be binding on all courts below it is |
provided for in :
Answer
D. Article 141
88
Ae per the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 the failure, refusal or inability of an employer on
account of shortage of raw material to give employment to a workman who is on the rolls of
the industrial establishment is -
Answer
B. Lay off
89
Answer
D. 48 hours
90
The Attorney General shall hold office :
Answer
A. during the pleasure of the President
91
The United Kerala Convention of 1947 was held at :
Answer
A. Thrissur
92
Who did establish the ‘Sree Narayana Vidhylaya’ at Payyannur in 1931?
Answer
C. Ananada Theerthan
93
Kurichiar Revolt of Wayanad was against :
Answer
C. Revenue Reform
94
Who was the father of political movement in modern Travancore?
Answer
B. G. Parameswaran Pillai
95
The first modern hospital of Travancore was:
Answer
D. General Hospital
96
India got the war-ship I.N.5 Vikramadithya from :
Answer
A. Russia
97
India’s first Military Base outside India is in:
Answer
B. Tajikistan
98
The first International T-20 Cricket match was played between :
Answer
D. New Zealand — Australia
99
The 100" space mission of ISRO, PSLV- C21 was launched on:
Answer
A. 2012 September 9
100
Name the first Bank which introduced the A.T.M service in India :
Answer
C. HSBC
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