Traditional Phase: Classical and Neoclassical PA

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, what is the distinction between Public Administration and public administration?

• Public Administration refers to the activities of the executive branch, while public administration refers to the activities of the legislative branch.

• Public Administration is concerned with ancient empires, while public administration is concerned with modern governments.

• Public Administration denotes the theory of Public Administration, while public administration denotes public administration as an activity or practice.

• Public Administration is focused on international affairs, while public administration is focused on domestic affairs.

In Classical PA, who recognized the works of Wilson, concentrating more on the managerial phase of administration. He also mentioned that "administration is primarily an art but attaches importance to the significant tendency to transform it into science."

• Woodrow Wilson (1887)

• Frank Goodnow (1900)

• Leonard White (1926)

• Frederick Taylor, 1912

In Classical PA, who emphasized that ”it’s becoming harder to run a constitution than to frame one?”

• Frank Goodnow, 1900

• Leonard White, 1926

• Woodrow Wilson, 1887

• Henri Fayol, 1916

In Classical PA, who advocated for a “politics-administration dichotomy" and was considered the Father of American Public Administration? He also expressed that "politics is the expression of the will of the state; administration is the execution of that will."

• Frank Goodnow, 1800

• Frank Goodnow, 1900

• Frederick Taylor, 1912

• Henri Fayol, 1916

In Neoclassical PA, which theorist emphasized the importance of human behavior and interpersonal relations in organizations? He used Hawthorne Experiments to study the effect of external environment on productivity in a Western Electric Plant in Illinois, USA.

• Abraham Maslow, 1943

• Max Weber, 1946

• Elton Mayo, 1927

• Frederick Taylor, 1912

Which of the following pertains to the criticism of Paul Appleby (1945) to the Traditional Phase (from the late 1800s to the 1950s) of PA?

• Proverbs of Administration - principles are like proverbs, logically inconsistent, contrary principle.

• Democractic norms not just management principles

• Classical view is limited to the study of allocation of functions and formal structure of authority.

• Administration is not apart from politics; center of political life.

In Traditional/Classical PA, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick (1937) expanded Fayol's five management functions to seven functions. Those seven functions pertain to:

• POSDCORB - Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Cooperating, Reporting, and Budgeting

• POSDCORB - Preparing, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting

• POSDCORB - Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting

• POSDCORB - Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Distributing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting

In Neoclassical PA, who proposed the concept of 'Theory X and Theory Y' regarding managerial assumptions about employees?

• Frederick Taylor, 1912

• Abraham Maslow, 1943

• Elton Mayo, 1927

• Douglas McGregor, 1960

Who emphasized that it is more fashionable to say PA is both art and science?

• Douglas McGregor, 1960

• William Willoughby, 1918

• Herbert Simon, 1946

• Dwight Waldo, 1948

In Classical PA, who is considered the Father of Modern Sociology and proposed the Bureaucratic Model of Organization? He also regards bureaucracy as an "ideal-type of organization," but ideal here does not refer to the best or perfect type of organization.

• Max Weber, 1946

• Abraham Maslow, 1943

• Elton Mayo, 1927

• Frederick Taylor, 1912