Questions

PAPER- I- 2011
Time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 300

Instructions

The candidates should attempt question nos. 1 and 5 which are compulsory, and any three of the remaining questions selecting at least one from each Section

The number of marks carried by each question is indicated at the end of the question

Section- A
1. Answer all three questions in not more than 200 words each: 20*3=60 marks

(a) “The new approaches of NPA, NPM & NPS (New Public Service) are rebuilding the bureaucratic paradigm”. Discuss

(b) “Administration is business and like business it does not involve itself in questions of
Politics”

(c) Taylor’s Scientific Management is “ a combination of subtle brutality of bourgeois exploitation and a number of its greatest scientific achievements”

2. (a) “Delegated legislation and Administrative tribunals have been identified as the manifestation of ‘New Despotism’, ‘Triumph of Bureaucracy’ and virtual renunciation of democracy”. Critically Examine. 30 marks

(b) ‘Constructive Conflict’, ‘De-personalizing Orders’, ‘Functional Relationship’ and ‘Cumulative Responsibility’ defines the idealism in Mary Parker Follett’s concept of ‘Dynamic Administration’. Critically Evaluate. 30 marks

3. (a) Define Public Administration. Analyze the role of Public Administration vis-à-vis liberalization, privatization and globalization. 40 marks

(b) Examine the models of Max Weber and Chester Barnard with reference to ‘bureaucratic authority’. 20 marks

4. (a) Among many other tools, Right to Information is just another way of enforcing accountability and transparency in the administration. Discuss. 40 marks

(b) Headquarter and Field relationships determine the tenor of implementation of programmes. Comment. 20 marks

Section- B

5. Answer all three questions in not more than 200 words each: 20*3= 60

(a) “Good Governance has been characterized as form of ‘neo- imperialism’, non- ecological and ethnocentric in nature”. Discuss critically.

(b) “NPM emerged as a critique of bureaucratic model of Max Weber and its foundations lay deep in economic management and theories”

(c) “The Hawthorne researches demonstrate the need to analyze organizations as living social structures”


6 (a) Weber’s ideal type model of the ‘rational- legal’ bureaucratic organization produces certain dysfunctional consequences. Discuss. 40 marks

(b) Judicial Activism in India is not a case of ‘Judicial Overreach’ or ‘Judicial Adventurism’ but has helped in safeguarding citizen’s interests. Illustrate with examples. 20

7. (a) Socio-Psychological approach of Douglas McGregor as manifested in Theory X and Theory Y has important managerial implications. Discuss. 30 marks

(b) The ‘newness’ of NPA (New Public Administration) has rightly been questioned as it presented ‘old wine in a new bottle’. Discuss. 30 marks

8. (a) Discuss the evolution of Public Administration with special emphasis on post- 1970 developments. 40 marks

(b) Citizen Charter ensures simple and quick responses by administration along with its accountability directly to the people. 20 marks