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M Puri's Test Series: October (2010) Batch Administrative Theory & Administrative Behaviour

SECTION-A

Q.1. Answer any three (Word Limit – 200 words) 20x3
a) The language of traditional organizational theory reflects the machine metaphor; while the vocabulary of modern organization requires an organic metaphor, a description of process and not a structural arrangement. Comment.
b) ‘Ideal Models’ are key tools in making sense of social phenomena. Elucidate.
c) Taylor failed to understand the anatomy of work. Comment.
d) Weber’s ideal type model of bureaucracy has been criticized for being internally inconsistent. Comment.

Q.2. a) Hawthorne studies were interpreted as validating the idea that unquantifiable relationships (or Human Relations) between workers & managers and workers themselves were significant determinants of workers productivity. Discuss 30
b) Vroom’s expectancy theory is one of the most widely accepted explanations of motivation. Discuss. 30

Q.3. a) Theory X assumptions tend to make an unnatural distinction between work and play. Elucidate. 30
b) Idealism inherent in M.P. Follet’s thought is most manifest in her ideas on Conflict and leadership. Discuss. 30

Q.4. In the context of leadership studies answer the following: 20x3
a) Reasons for invalidation of trait approaches.
b) Fiedler’s contingency theory. Short note.
c) Leaders today are perceived as vision creators. Comment.

SECTION-B

Q.5. Attempt all. (Word limit -200 words) 20x3
a) Values and facts are integral to decision making process in both public and private organisation. Comment.
b) Barnard regards organization as a system that is subordinate to a larger system – Society. Comment.
c) A study of linking processes (Communication, Balance & Decision Making) is an integral part of systems theory of organization. Elucidate.

Q.6. a) Communication process in contemporary organization is simmering with issues and conflicts. Discuss. 30
b) Motivational constructs propounded by Herzberg & Maslow have been described as ‘major wrong theories’. Examine. 30

Q.7. a) Emergence of comprehensive and largely valid conceptual construct in public administration encounters dilemmas of both theory and practice. Discuss 30
b) Successful management leaders are found in Likert’s system – 4 approach to organizational leadership. Examine. 30

Q.8. a) The ‘Post Modern Organisation’ is a combination of pre-modern and modern organisation yet it has certain distinctive features of its own. Discuss. 30
b) Explain Peter Principle in respect of promotional policy in hierarchical organizations. 30