NOTE: Attempt FIVE questions in all. Choose FOUR out of NINE questions. Question No. 10 is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Examine the role of Public Administration in a modern welfare state. How the study of public administration can help in understanding the problems of administration in a developing country like Pakistan?

2. Discuss some of the negative and positive aspects of bureaucracy. Give your views on the bureaucracy of Pakistan as a change agent.

3. Highlight the importance of leadership in administration. Identify various forms of administrative leadership and give arguments in favour of a form which suits to the administrative environments in Pakistan.

4. Write a critical note on the concept of accountability in public service. How public servants in Pakistan can be made more accountable?

5. Describe the structure of planning machinery in Pakistan. Identify its strengths and weakness.

6. How communications contribute to efficiency and productivity in public administration? Suggest methods of improving the speed and accuracy of communication channels in an organization.

7. What is meant by informal organization? How does it modify the formal organization?

8. Give a brief account of salient features of the system of public personnel management in Pakistan. Are you in favour or against the closed system in Civil Service of Pakistan? Why?

9. Explain the meaning of coordination. Suggest methods of efficiently handling the problems of coordination in public administration.



10. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.

(1) POSDCORB represents:
(a) A modern theory of management
(b) A title of a book
(c) An administrative agency
(d) Acronym for managerial functions

(2) O & M stands for:
(a) Organization & Management
(b) Owls & Mules
(c) Organization & Methods
(d) Officers & Ministers

(3) The founding father of Scientific Management Movement was:
(a) Elton Mayo
(b) Rothelisberger
(c) Chester Barnard
(d) F. W. TAylor

(4) Division-making theory in administration was given by:
(a) Pfiffner
(b) Sherwood
(c) Simon
(d) Presthus

(5) According to Gullick and Urwick, Staff Authority is:
(a) Mandatory
(b) Advisory
(c) Dilatory
(d) Expeditery

(6) Politics-Administration Dichotomy was introduced in Public Administration by:
(a) Goodnow
(b) White
(c) Willoughby
(d) Waldo

(7) Theory of Bureaucracy was postulated by:
(a) Fayol
(b) Mooney
(c) Max Weber
(d) Merton

(8) Under the 1973 administrative reforms in Pakistan:
(a) Constitutional protection for civil servants was provided.
(b) Public service structure was organized according to service and cadres.
(c) Recruitment was to be made strictly through Public Service Commission
(d) All cases & service labels were abolished

(9) PIDC is:
(a) A regular Government Department
(b)A public corporation
(c) A private limited Co.
(d) A multi-national

(10) Civil Service Academy is located at:
(a) Lahore
(b) Peshawar
(c) Islamabad
(d) Karachi