PAD 3003 quiz 1-2 questions
Kaci Hickox was found to be carrying Ebola.
False
Moore (1995) stated that the traditional / "old-school" view of administration" Encouraged bureaucrats to exercise any abundance of imagination about the proper purposes of government and allowed them to take responsibility for their defining, allowing for freedom to innovate." T/F
False
The Centralia Coal Company was told only once by inspectors associated with the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals that the company needed to clean Centralia Mine Number 5, before an explosion at the mine on March 25, 1947 T/F
False
Wilson (1887) & Goodnow's (1900) work characterized the early dichotomy of "politics and administration" T/F
True
What are the three types of authorities Goodnow (1900) discussed in Politics and Administration?
administrative, executive, and judicial
Passed under President Clinton, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was a policy that addressed sexual preference among military members. How long did it last?
1994-2011
In his article that discussed the search for virtue in public life, how many people did Frederickson (2010) claim currently make up the modern federal "extended workforce?"
17 million
What author is responsible for the 1960 piece "The Human Side of Enterprise" which characterizes management styles into "Theory X" and "Theory Y"
Douglas McGregor
According to Anderson (2012), Public Sector Values can be substituted for political authority on organizations due to their exact political influence.
False
Found in Ingram, et. al. (2000), according to a survey of 10 government agencies, 15% of total spending is contributed to training employees. T/F
False
According to Cook and Klay (2014), what philosopher was identified as being responsible for founding of the Scottish Enlightenment?
Francis Hutcheson
According to Holzer and Schwester (2011), teleological theories emphasize the following
Importance of maximizing what is good
According to Holzer and Schwester, what was Simon's (1946) major critique of Gulick and Urwick's work on scientific management?
None of the terms used were truly scientific.
Frederick Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management (1911) emphasized what key point?
There is "One Best Way" To accomplish a task.
(EC) Primary responsibility for public health matters rests with state and local governments.
True
According to Holzer and Schwester, employee benefits and salaries account for between 50-85% of government budgets. T/F
True
According to Rubenstein, via the Adams and Balfour (2004) reading, no laws against genocide or dehumanization were broken by those responsible for the Holocaust T/F
True
Found in Bozeman's article, according to Dewey (1927), public interest cannot be determined without discussion.
True
In Cooper's (2004) work, the author presented the following question as one of his "big questions" in administrative ethics: 'What are the regulative foundations for public administrative ethics?' T/F
True
In the Holzer and Schwester (2011) text, Weber stated that bureaucracies are machine-like structures with ___________ at the heart.
efficiency
Found in Bozeman (2007), according to Anderson (2007), normative publicness is defined as the extent to which an organization holds ________ sector values
public
In Holzer and Schwester, Schein (1993) defined organizational culture as: _______ notions that unite individuals in an organization.
shared
