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Test Study Guide
Test 2
Study Guide Test 2
Chapters 8,10,11,12,16
The subjects covered are the functions of public administration:
Decision making
Management
Personnel
Budgeting
The test also covers chapter 16 Ethics
Check out lecture
notes.
Extra Credit
Take any one of the case studies we covered this semester and answer
the following questions.
1. What is the problem or dilemma or issue involved in the case study?
2. How can the issue be stated as an ethical question?
3. What are the possible oppositions available to the administrator
to get out of the dilemma?
4. Did the administrator make the right decision? Explain
your answer.
5. What lessons should we learn?
First Test
Be able to answer the following questions.
1. What is public administration. Examine the definition I gave you
and compare that with the definitions on pages 1-3 in the text. Pay
special
attention to Nigro and Nigro on page 2 and the summary by the author of
the text on the bottom of page 3.
2. According to Woodrow Wilson what is the relationship between
public administration and political science?
3. According to Stillman what are the landmark events in the history
of public administration in the U.S?
4. What are the values public administration tries to implement in
the public sector?
5. What is the ecology of public administration?
6. What did the Hawthorne studies reveal about Taylor’s scientific
management theory and about how people behave in an organizational setting?
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