Exam Details

Subject Administrative Theory
Paper
Exam / Course Master of Arts in Public Administration
Department School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. State the basic principles of Scientific Management and other important concerns of F.W. Taylor.

2. 'The New Public Management Approach is changing the way we perceive Public Administration'. Examine.

3. Discuss the contribution of Henry Fayol, Mooney and Reiley, and Gulick and Urwick towards the Administrative Management Approach.

4. Briefly explain the nature of experiments conducted by Elton Mayo at the Hawthorne plant of Western Electric Company in 1920s.

5. Write short notes in around 250 words on each of the following

Elements of Bureaucracy as laid down by Max Weber

Types of Organisations

6. Critically evaluate Frederick Herzberg's Motivation -Hygiene Theory.

7. Highlight the views of Douglas McGregor on Theory and Theory of motivation in organisations.

8. Explain the views of Chester Barnard on organisations as cooperative system.

9. Write a note on New Public Administration.

10. Write short notes in around 250 words on each of the following

Concept of Learning Organisations

Role of Choice and Behaviour in Decision Making


Departments

  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS)
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  • School of Translation Studies and Training (SOTST)
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Subjects

  • Administrative Theory
  • Decentralization and Local Governance
  • Disaster Management
  • E-Governance
  • Human Resource Management
  • Public Policy and Analysis
  • Public Systems Management
  • State, Society and Public Administration