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MGMT 308 Module 1 QUIZ
Question 1

The phenomenon of administrative discretion (when lower ranking executives are able to personally affect the implementation of law) arises from a lack of centralized authority.

 
Question 2

The study of public administration is limited to government employees.
   

Question 3

Public managers are likely to face conflicting incentives from all of the followingexcept
   
 
 
Question 4
Public management has virtually nothing in common with private management.
   

 
Question 5

Merit systems apply to approximately _____ proportion of the national government's bureaucratic employees?
   
 
Question 6

Although public trust in government increased slightly during the 1990s, it is still below the levels of previous decades.

 
 
Question 7

Federal efforts to "reinvent government" ignored the role of public employees as frontline service providers.
   

 
 
Question 8

Charles Goodsell maintains that America's public bureaucracies perform quite well in comparison with bureaucracies elsewhere, whether measured by objective standards or in terms of overall citizen satisfaction.

 
Question 9

The larger a unit of local government, the more likely it is that its bureaucracy will resemble state and national administrative agencies.

 
Question 10

What is the acronym popularly used to characterize important administrative principles?

Question 11

Social-demographic changes in economic activity, population, technology, and the workforce have had little affect on public administration
   
 
 
Question 12

In Parliamentary forms of government,
   

 
 
Question 13

During its earliest period, a major theme of the academic field of public administration was
   

Question 14

George W. Bush was successful implementing policy changes in which of the following?
   

 
 
Question 15

Which of the following is not an independent regulatory entity?
     

Question 16

The growth of bureaucracy can be explained by all the following except
 
Question 17

Among the most important differences in the respective working environments of public and private managers are, first, the "goldfish bowl" of publicity facing the public manager and, second, the public manager's
   
Question 18

"Clientelism," as a distinct political pattern, did not emerge in bureaucratic politics until after World War II.
   

 

Question 19

Electronic government was originally designed to make citizens more dependent on bureaucratic agencies.
   

Question 20
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A challenge faced by only private administrators is that they must pursue broad goals set by others and their efforts will be evaluated by outside forces.