INTRODUCTION TO PHILIPPINE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2024

INTRODUCTION TO PHILIPPINE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2024 WOODRAW WILSON - Answers He said that Public Administration is the essence of a detailed and systematic execution of law LEONARD WHITE - Answers He said that Public Administration is the management of men and materials in the accomplishment of the purposes of the state. It relates to the conduct of government services FELIX NIGRO AND LLOYD NIGRO - Answers They said that the Public Administration is a cooperative group effort in the public setting; covers the three branches of the government and their interrelationships has an important role in the formulation of public policy and is part of the political process 5 IMPORTANT ROLES OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - Answers Provides a Basis for Government Acts as an Instrument of Change in the Society Plays a Vital Role in the Life of the People Acts as an Instrument for the Execution of Policies and Programs Acts as a Stabilizing Force in the Government NATURE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: MANAGERIAL VIEW - Answers Perceives Public Administration as a field which encompasses only the managerial activities and not the technical, clerical, and manual activities which are non-managerial in nature NATURE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: INTEGRAL VIEW - Answers Perceives Public Administration as a field which encompasses all the activities undertaken to accomplish the given objectives. It is the sum total of managerial, technical, clerical, and manual activities SCOPE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: POSDCORB VIEW - Answers Advocated by Luther Gulick who believed that administration is composed of seven elements. He summed up these elements in the acronym ________ with each letter implying one element of administration: Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting SCOPE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: SUBJECT-MATTER VIEW - Answers Lays emphasis on the services rendered and the functions performed by an administrative agency. It advocated that the substantive problem of an agency depends upon the subject-matter with which it is concerned PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - Answers → Broad field of Administration → Actions are based on Public Trust → Routine decision-making procedure → Maintenance of status quo → Actions subject to Public Criticism → Restricted by Fiscal Accountability PRIVATE ADMINISTRATION - Answers → Limited field of Administration → Not necessarily bases on Public Trust → Unlimited decision-making process → Dynamic Entrepreneurship → Not normally subject to Public Criticism → No such Restrictions POLITICS - Answers According to Frank Goodnow, it has something to do with policies or expressions of the will of the state. It is the function that speaks to the process on how policies are made in the government-such a process as Goodnow articulated is actually lengthy and complicated ADMINISTRATION - Answers It has something to do with the implementation of policies after their enactment by the executive department. It is the continuation of a long process of creating a policy and is considered pivotal as the success of the policy is highly dependent on its implementation CLASSICAL PERIOD - Answers Started with the publication of the seminal paper "The Study of Administration" that was written by Woodrow Wilson. The paper was published at the height of the "Progressive Movement" in the United States of America which called for the separation of Politics from administration DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION - Answers Came in as a new area of study in the field of Public Administration which focused on the issues of development among the third world countries in the 1950s NEW PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - Answers A result of the Minnowbrook Conference that was held in Syracuse University in 1986. NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT - Answers Started in the UK during the administration of then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s. GOOD GOVERNANCE - Answers Popularized by the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and other International financial institutions that saw the need for developing countries to produce significant improvements in their respective administrative systems. ALEX BRILLANTES AND MARICEL FERNANDEC - Answers Who said that there is a Philippine Public Administration which is an American, French, and Thai Public Administration. The existence of PA in the country is obvious as the field can be viewed either as a discipline or a practice that has been in existence even before the coming of its colonizers. OVERVIEW OF PA: AS A FIELD OF STUDY - Answers The areas of specialization cover a wide range of interests that includes policy analysis and program administration, organization management, local government administration, public fiscal administration, public enterprise management, voluntary sector management, and spatial information management OVERVIEW OF PA: AS A FIELD A PRACTICE - Answers It is a reflection of the processes and activities of the different government offices in the Philippines. These processes and activities mirror a rich tradition of the country's government bureaucracy dating back from the period of pre-colonization