Public Personnel, Administration in India, Types of Personnel system, Principles of personnel system Set 1

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This set of Public Personnel Administration Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Public Personnel, Administration in India, Types of Personnel system, Principles of personnel system Set 1

Q1 | .Who said ‘Personnel is the sovereign factor in public administration’
  • Herman Finer
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Robert Dahl
Answer: Herman Finer
Q2 | In POSDCORB, the letter ‘C’ stands for
  • Control
  • Coordinating
  • Centre
Answer: Coordinating
Q3 | Public Personnel Administration function involves
  • POSNCORB
  • POLSCORB
  • POSDCORB
Answer: POSDCORB
Q4 | Aristocratic type of Personnel system developed in
  • USA
  • England
  • India
Answer: England
Q5 | The standard and efficiency of Public Administration depends on
  • outlook of the employer
  • educational qualification of the civil servants
  • integrity of the civil service
Answer: integrity of the civil service
Q6 | Public Personnel Administration involves
  • recruitment, training and classification
  • recruitment only
  • appointment only
Answer: recruitment, training and classification
Q7 | Spoils system is associated with
  • Germany
  • USA
  • UK
Answer: USA
Q8 | Bureaucratic system rests on the notion of
  • political favouritism
  • imperfection
  • hierarchy of divisions
Answer: hierarchy of divisions
Q9 | Equality of opportunity is ensured in
  • spoils system
  • merit system
  • aristocratic system
Answer: merit system
Q10 | In the USA,the spoils system was discarded by which Act
  • Pendleton Act,1883
  • Hatch Act,1939
  • Civil Service Act,1853
Answer: Pendleton Act,1883
Q11 | The requirements of the civil service include
  • partial selection and nepotism
  • impartial selection and political neutrality
  • fraudulence and deceit
Answer: impartial selection and political neutrality
Q12 | Who used the term "manpower management" instead of "personnel management
  • Dale Yoder
  • Thomas Spates
  • Michael Jucius
Answer: Dale Yoder
Q13 | One of the aims of Personnel Management is
  • to maintain impartiality
  • to create competition amongst the public servants
  • to enable people to make their best contribution
Answer: to enable people to make their best contribution
Q14 | Personnel are required to perform
  • Line functions and Staff functions
  • Line functions only
  • Staff functions only
Answer: Line functions and Staff functions
Q15 | Personnel Administration functions in
  • Formal Organisations
  • Informal Organisations
  • Formal and Informal organisations
Answer: Formal and Informal organisations
Q16 | Personnel Administration include within its scope
  • recruitment, training, promotion
  • selection and retirement only
  • providing services only
Answer: recruitment, training, promotion
Q17 | An occupation which one takes up with expectation of advancement till retirement is
  • promotion
  • career
  • recruitment
Answer: career
Q18 | A person who specializes in some particular field is called
  • generalist
  • idealist
  • specialist
Answer: specialist
Q19 | In POSDCORB,the letter P stands for
  • planning
  • position
  • promotion
Answer: planning
Q20 | The word’Aristocracy’means
  • government by a king
  • government by the people
  • government by the nobles
Answer: government by the nobles
Q21 | The word ‘bureaucracy’was coined by
  • Gourney
  • Taylor
  • Weber
Answer: Gourney
Q22 | One of the advantages of the Bureaucratic system is
  • it produces the highest degree of pride
  • it brings skilled mind to solution of technical problems
  • it serves as an instrument of oppressing the employee’s ideas
Answer: it brings skilled mind to solution of technical problems
Q23 | The greatest disadvantage of the Bureaucratic system is
  • it exempts public service from popular control
  • it is incompetent
  • it is inefficient
Answer: it exempts public service from popular control
Q24 | Who said ‘To the victor belongs the spoils’
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • William Marcy
Answer: William Marcy
Q25 | Who said ,’My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the sameopportunity as the strongest’
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Clement Atlee
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
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