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JKPSC Assistant Professor (Political Science) · Political Science · 55 practice questions with answers and explanations: 8 Easy, 46 Medium, 1 Hard.

Sample questions

Sample Easy question 1

The human relations school is associated with:

  1. Max Weber
  2. Elton Mayo
  3. F. W. Taylor
  4. Henri Fayol
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Answer: B. It grew from the Hawthorne studies.

Sample Easy question 2

Unity of command means that an employee receives orders from:

  1. Many superiors
  2. No superior
  3. One superior only
  4. The public
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Answer: C. It is one of Fayol's principles.

Sample Easy question 3

Hierarchy in organisation is the:

  1. Equal status of all
  2. Absence of authority
  3. Rule of peers
  4. Arrangement of authority in graded levels
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Answer: D. It forms the scalar chain.

Sample Medium question 4

POSDCORB was given by:

  1. Henri Fayol
  2. Max Weber
  3. Luther Gulick
  4. Herbert Simon
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Answer: C. Planning, Organising, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting and Budgeting.

Sample Medium question 5

Max Weber's ideal type of organisation is the:

  1. Family
  2. Bureaucracy
  3. Clan
  4. Cooperative
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Answer: B. Rule-based, hierarchical and impersonal.

Sample Medium question 6

Scientific management is associated with:

  1. Mayo
  2. F. W. Taylor
  3. Fayol
  4. Gulick
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Answer: B. 'The Principles of Scientific Management' (1911).

Sample Hard question 7

Administrative reforms in India after Independence were first examined by the:

  1. Gorwala Report (1951)
  2. Kothari Commission
  3. ARC 2005
  4. Fulton Report
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Answer: A. A. D. Gorwala reviewed public administration.

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