Public Administration Paper 2009

[The Star]

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BPS-17 UNDER
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2009

Public Administration

Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in appropriate box on the answer sheet. (20)

1.Health and wellness is a currently important work-related value
(a) true
(b) false

2.The cognitive component of an attitude consists of beliefs and values antecedents
(a) true
(b) false

3.The effective component of an attitude is a specific feeling regarding the personal impact of the antecedents.
(a) True
(b) false

4.An attitude results in intended behavior.
(a) true
(b) false

5. Job satisfaction is closely related to organizational commitment and job environment.
(a) true
(b) false

6.A loyalty response to low job satisfaction occurs when an employee passively waits for conditions to improve because of a trend in the organization.
(a) true
(b) false

7.Expectancy can have both positive and negative results for a manager.
(a) true
(b) false

8.The earliest studies of leadership tended to focus on leader behavior
(a) true
(b) false

9.Transactional leadership includes charisma.
(a) true
(b) false

10.Leader behaviors for high performance work teams tend to be charismatic.
(a) true
(b) false

11.One major power that bureaucracy has is simply its staying power.
(a) true
(b) false

12.Implement is the most “hands-on” facet of public administration.
(a) true
(b) false

13.A geographical information system is a location-related computer programme data and maps for a variety of uses.
(a) true
(b) false

14. The most powerful reason for the growing recognition of the global economy is
(a) the growth of international trade groupings and pacts.
(b) that more people are working domestically for foreign employees..
(c) that the major cities of the western world are culturally heterogeneous.
(d) that domestic organization are feeling the impact of international competition.

15. The learned and shared ways of thinking and doing things found among members of a society is known as:
(a) Parochialism
(b) Culture shock
(c) Culture
(d) Ethnocentrism
(e) Domestic multiculturalism

16. Each of the following is a popular dimension of culture except:
(a) Language
(b) Use of space
(c) Religion
(d) Individualism
(e) Time orientation

17. To help combat selective perception, a manager should:
(a) View the situation as others view it
(b) Give more performance feedback to subordinates
(c) Spend more time helping subordinates learn job skills
(d) Gather additional opinions about a situation from others
(e) Increase feedback to subordinates and train them personally

18. Assigning personal attributes to other individuals is known as:
(a) Stereotyping
(b) The halo effect
(c) Selective perception
(d) Projection
(e) Expectancy

19. The key elements of the communication process include all but which of the following:
(a) An interpreter
(b) A receiver
(c) A source
(d) Feedback
(e) Noise

20. Nonverbal communication is:
(a) The acknowledgment of a message and a response to its reception.
(b) Communication through physical gesture
(c) The same as noise
(d) Anything that interferes with the effectiveness of the communication attempt
(e) Often unimportant during interviews.

Q.2. Write a short essay on the intellectual history of Public Administration (20)

Q.3. Bureaucracy and Democrarcy are antithetical.Bureaucracy is hierarchical,elitist,specializing and informed while democracy is communal,pluralist,generalizing and ill informed.Keeping in mind the quantum of expectations in Pakistan and the reality of the civic culture discuss the above statement. (20)

Q.4. Public administration is a broad ranging and amorphous mix of theory and practice.The purpose of public Administration is to frame a superior understanding of government and its relationship with the society it governs,as well as to promote public policies responsive to social needs.Public Administration also institutes managerial practices attuned to effectiveness,efficiencies,and a deeper human requisite of the citizenry.Discuss. (20)

Q.5. How and why governments implement public programmes by hiring the private sector to do work for them.In writting your answer also discuss the concepts of privitization and public private partnership. (20)

Q.6. Domestic public policy is implemented not merely by government but by governments.The administration of a single public policy often involves a meldley of funding sources and public administrators interacting through all the three levels of governments.Please comment on the strenght of inter government relations i.e; financial,legal.political and administrative relationship that exist among the various governments units of aid government in Pakistan. (20)

Q.7. The judicial remedies and accountability for the citizens of the country against the abuse of power has become prevalent in the modren time.What are those remedies? Elaborate. (20)

Q.8. Eplain the system of project planning in the government of Pakistan and how does it extend to the provinces and local governments? (20)

[Nazik]

i think the paper was quite tough....
comments are required on this paper from freinds...

plz anybody solve the MCQs

Can Anybody Tell What Was The Answer To Question Number 04

can any body tell what is the ans of following Q in public ad paper 2009?

Q.4. Public administration is a broad ranging and amorphous mix of theory and practice.The purpose of public Administration is to frame a superior understanding of government and its relationship with the society it governs,as well as to promote public policies responsive to social needs.Public Administration also institutes managerial practices attuned to effectiveness,efficiencies,and a deeper human requisite of the citizenry.Discuss.

[Nasar Ali shah]

Q.3. Bureaucracy and Democrarcy are antithetical.Bureaucracy is hierarchical,elitist,specializing and informed while democracy is communal,pluralist,generalizing and ill informed.Keeping in mind the quantum of expectations in Pakistan and the reality of the civic culture discuss the above statement.
Answer :Bureaucracy and Democracy a comperasion in opposite in the following grounds:
1: Bereaurracy is hierarical means that it has a well shaped organized and have a system of authority from top to down and from down to top leadership. such as Secetary at top and jonior clerk at the lower level while in Democracy there is no such hierarchy

[aj khan]

i m trying to solve rest of the MCQs
pls someone recheck them and correct if needed

1 true
2 true
3 true
4 false
5 true
6 true
7 false
8 false
9 true
10 false
11 true
12 true ?
13 true
14 a ?
15 c
16 d
17 d ?
18 d
19 e
20 b

[Raz]

Originally Posted by aj khan

i m trying to solve rest of the MCQs
pls someone recheck them and correct if needed

18 d

18 a (Stereotyping is the correct answer)

[aj khan]

Dear Raz , thanks a lot for taking out time and verifying the answers

there appears to be a minute difference between stereotyping and projection
below i m pasting definitions of both, sorry but i lost the exact source of these definitions but i gathered those from someones power point presentation to students

Stereotype
using attributes commonly associated with a group to an individual.

Projection
occurs when we assign our personal attributes to other individuals. Some call this the “similar-to-me” error.


comments are awaited

[Raz]

Originally Posted by aj khan

Dear Raz , thanks a lot for taking out time and verifying the answers
regarding MCQ No 18
there appears to be a minute difference between stereotyping and projection
below i m pasting definitions of both, sorry but i lost the exact source of these definitions but i gathered those from someones power point presentation to students



Stereotype
using attributes commonly associated with a group to an individual.

Projection
occurs when we assign our personal attributes to other individuals. Some call this the “similar-to-me” error.


comments are awaited

Brother:

Actually, I won’t have selected stereotyping if the term “projection” would have been picked from the standard terminology of the concerned subject. Each field has got its distinguishing terminology and in public administration / communication / behavioral studies term “projection” is not used apparently. If you have any reliable book which quotes “projection” in this sense then you are cent per cent right.

Based on the above logic the nearest answer was stereotyping.

Halo effect: When we perceive any body in the context of any single trait /attribute and that single trait / attribute dominates his whole personality perception.

Helicopter factor: Skill to win over the situation. A breakthrough element.

Regards

[aj khan]

Originally Posted by Raz

Brother:

Actually, I won’t have selected stereotyping if the term “projection” would have been picked from the standard terminology of the concerned subject. Each field has got its distinguishing terminology and in public administration / communication / behavioral studies term “projection” is not used apparently. If you have any reliable book which quotes “projection” in this sense then you are cent per cent right.

Based on the above logic the nearest answer was stereotyping.

Halo effect: When we perceive any body in the context of any single trait /attribute and that single trait / attribute dominates his whole personality perception.

Helicopter factor: Skill to win over the situation. A breakthrough element.

Regards

Dear Brother Raz following are two excerpts
from " Behavioural Science in Medicine " by Barbara Fadem
published by Lippincott williams & Wilkins

"Projection____ basically a defence mechanism______ attributing ones's own personally unacceptable feelings to others, can be associated with psychopathology such as paranoia or even with common prejudice"

similar in meaning but different in words definition about projection can also be found in
Kaplan & Sadock's
Comprehensive textbook of Psychiatry
Eighth Edition

[omore]

Projection is 'the tendency to see one's own personal traits in other people', therefore projection seems to be the right answer, (This definition is from the book The Leadership Experience By Richard Daft)