MPA 012
Administrative Theory Assignment
Solved
Assignment 2020-21
Marks: 100
This Assignment
consists of Section-I and Section-II. There are five questions in each Section.
You have to answer a total of five questions in about 500 words each, selecting
at least two questions from each section. Each question carries 20 marks.
SECTION-I
1) Define public administration and bring out the distinction and similarities between public and private administration.
2) Write a note on typologies of organisation.
3) Examine the growth of administrative theory over the years.
4) Discuss F.W.Taylor’s contribution to scientific management.
5) Define bureaucracy and critically analyse Max Weber’s model of bureaucracy.
SECTION-II
6) Explain Abraham Maslow’s ‘hierarchy of needs theory’.
7) Critically analyse Victor Vroom’s ‘expectancy theory’.
8) Explain the goals and anti-goals of new public administration.
9) Define ‘organisational culture’ and discuss its major components.
10) Examine the impact of new public management perspective.
