45 MCQs on Theories of Public Administration

1. Who is known as the father of scientific management theory?

a) Elton Mayo

b)) Max Weber

c) F.W. Taylor

d) Gulick

Ans: c) F.W. Taylor

2. Who first coined the term “scientific management”?

a) Louis Brandies

b) M.P. Follet

c) Urwick

d) F.W. Taylor

3. Who wrote the book “Principles of Scientific Management”?

a) L.M. Gilbreth

b) H.L. Gantt

c) Max Weber

d) F.W. Taylor

4. ‘Functional foremanship’ is the technique of which theory?

a) Classical theory

b) Scientific management theory

c) Bureaucratic theory

d) Human Relations theory

Ans: b) Scientific management theory

5. Which among the following is not a principle of scientific management theory?

a) Science, not rule of thumb

b) Harmony,  not discord

c) Individualism, not cooperation

d) Maximum output, in place of restricted output

Ans: a) Richard Bendix

7. Who called classical theory as ‘administrative management theory’?

a) Henry Fayol

b) Luther Gulick

c) M.P. Follet

d) March and Simon

8. Who is regarded as the father of classical theory?

a) Mooney and Reiley

b) Henry Fayol

c) Luther Gulick

d) M.P. Follet

9. Fayol suggested about how many type of industrial activities?

a) 7

b) 6

c) 8

d) 9

10. Who gave the concept of ‘POCCC’?

a) M.P. Follet

b) Henry Fayol

c) Luther Gulick

d) Mooney

11. Who specified fourteen principles of administration?

a) F. W. Taylor

b) M.P. Follet

c) Henry Fayol

d) Luther Gulick

12. According to Henry Fayol, which one is not a principle of administration?

a) Decentralization

b) Equity

c) Unity of command

d) Scalar chain

13. Who identified four bases of departmental organizations as 4P-formula?

a) Urwick

b) M.P. Follet

c) Henry Fayol

d) Luther Gulick

14. Who wrote the book “The Elements of Administration”?

a) Max weber

b) Urwick

c) M.P. Follet

d) Henry Fayol

15. Who called hierarchy as ‘scalar process’?

a) Herbert Simon

b) Mooney and Reiley

c) Henry Fayol

d) Luther Gulick

16. Who first coined the term “bureaucracy”?

a) F.M. Marx

b) Max Weber

c) Thomas Carlyle

d) Vincent de Gurney

17. The term bureaucracy was first used by —?

a) Gaetano Mosca

b) F.M. Marx

c) Max Weber

d) Thomas Carlyle

18.  Who propounded the concept of Iron Law of Oligarchy?

a) Robert Michels

b) Gaetano Mosca

c) Pareto

d) Max Weber

19.  Who wrote the book “The Ruling Class”?

a) F.M Marx

b) Robert Michels

c) Gaetano Mosca

d) Pareto

20. Who gave the concept of ideal type of bureaucracy?

a) Max Weber

b) F.M. Marx

c) Karl Marx

d) Thomas Carlyle

21. Who said, “all administration means domination”?

a) Robert Michels

b) Gaetano Mosca

c) F.M. Marx

d) Max Weber

22. Which among the following type of authority is the ideal type of bureaucracy according to Max Webber?

a) Traditional Authority

b)  Charismatic Authority

c) Legal-Rational Authority

d) All of the above

Ans: c) Legal-Rational Authority

23. Who wrote the book “Bureaucracy”?

a) Martin Albrow

b) F.M. Marx

c) Max Weber

d) Thomas Carlyle

24. Who gave acceptance theory of authority?

a) Weber

b) Henry Fayol

c) Chester Barnard

d) Herbert Simon

25. Who said, “Administration is a cooperative social action”?

a) M.P. Follet

b) Chester Barnard

c) Simon and March

d) Weber

1. The Human Relation Theory of organization came into existence –?

a) 1920s

b) 1930s

c) 1940s

d) 1960s

2. Human Relations Theory is also known as –?

a) Humanistic Theory

b) Socio-economic Theory

c) Neo-classical Theory

d) All of the above

3. Who is known as ‘father of human relation theory’?

a) George Maslow

b) Elton Mayo

c) F.W. Taylor

d) Chester Bernard

4. Hawthorne Studies is the basis for the rise of —- theory?

a) Scientific Management Theory

b) Administrative Management Theory

c) Human Relation Theory

d) Behavioural Theory

5. Which among the following is not an element of Human Relation Theory?

a) The Individual

b) Informal Organization

c) Participative Management

d) Scientific Management

6. What is “rate-buster”?

a) One should not turn out too much work. If one does

b) One should not turn out too little work. If one does

c) One should not tell a supervisor anything that will react to the detriment of an associate

d) None of the above

7. The first comprehensive analysis of the decision making process is given by —?

a) Terry

b) Seckler-Hudson

c) Simon

d) Chester Bernard

8. Who define decision-making as “the optimum rational choice between alternative courses of action”?

a) Kate Millet

b) Seckler-Hudson

c) Herbert Simon

d) Chester Bernard

Ans: d) Herbert Simon

10. Who is the chief advocate of ‘incremental model’?

a) Chester Bernard

b) Charles Lindblom

c) Yehezkel Dror

d) Herbert Simon

11.  According to Simon, which among the following is not a phase of decision making?

a) Intelligence activity

b) Design activity

c) Choice activity

d) Rational activity

12. Who is the chief advocate mixed-scanning model?

a) Herbert  Simon

b) Amitai Etizioni

c) Charles Lindblom

d) Yehezkel Dror

13. Who classified decisions into programmed and non-programmed?

a) Chester Bernard

b) Herbert  Simon

c) Amitai Etizioni

d) Charles Lindbloom

14. Who wrote the book “The Ecology of Public Administration”?

a) J. M. Gaus

b) Robert A. Dahl

c) F.W. Riggs

d) Roscoe Martin

15. Who is known as the foremost model-builder in comparative public administration?

a) Gabriel Almond

b) Robert A. Dahl

c) F.W. Riggs

d) Roscoe Martin

16. Who among the following is not an exponent of the ecological approach?

a) J.M. Gaus

b) Roscoe Martin

c) Robert A. Dahl

d) Chester Bernard

17. Who gave Agraria-Industria model?

a) Talcott Parsons

b) J. M. Gaus

c) Robert A. Dahl

d) F.W. Riggs

18. Bazaar- Canteen Model is a feature of —- model?

a) Prismatic-Sala Model

b) Fused-Prismatic –Diffracted Model

c) Agraria-Industria Model

d) Agraria-Transitia-Industria Model.

19. The word ‘entrepreneur’ is derived from the ——word which means to undertake?

a) French word entrepre

b) French word enterendre

c) Latin word entrepre

d) Latin word enterendre

20. Who wrote the book “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”?

a) Herbert Simon

b) Max Weber

c) Peter Drucker

d) Adam Smith

21. Who defined economic innovation in his theory of economic development?

a) Joseph Schumpeter

b) Max Weber

c) Peter Drucker

d) Adam Smith