answer these questions from the text book ( Foundations of Public Service, 2nd Edition (2013); Douglas Morgan, Richard Green, Craig Shinn, and Kent Robinson. ISNB: 978-0-7656-3459-7.)
Please, write each question with its answer to be understanding for me, and the answers should be through chapter 1 to chapter 7 in the text book above only.
1-Explain the role of rule by law in government administration as discussed in chapter 1 and how does rule by law affect public administrators.
2-What type of law is made by government agencies under a set of legislative guidelines and standards that are usually codified in administrative procedures acts?
3-What role do career public servants play with respect to “The Founding Beatitudes” as described by the authors in chapter 2?
4-Towards the end of chapter 2 the concept of reflective practice is discussed. What is reflective practice and what does it mean for public administrators working in large, complex organizations?
5-Identify the four major defects to which our democratic polity can succumb as discussed in chapter 2.
6- Identify the six “sense-making” activities that senior managers need to do to assist elected officials in their use of administrative discretion.
7-The textbook discusses the importance of understanding the logic of a public policy when an administrator has to exercise discretion in implementing it. Identify the four (4) different types of policies as well as the administrative discretion needed for that policy type.
8- Identify the four arguments/tensions that existed during the founding debates when they wrestled over the question of what most endangers liberty.
9- In the chapter on the troubled history of American public administration and in the founding era section of the chapter the authors identify three founding era problems they struggled with and that still affect us today. What are those three founding era problems?
10- What is the spoils system which characterized administrative practice during the Jacksonian period?
11- Which U.S. President was assassinated that caused a complete reformation of the spoils system?
12- What is New Public Management (NPM)?
13- What is ministerial responsibility under law as discussed in chapter 6?
14- Explain the role of public administration with respect to cultivating democratic citizenship as proposed by scholar Terry Cooper in chapter 6.
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Identify John Burke’s three discretionary responsibilities that are inherent to democratic administration under rule by law or formal-legal responsibility in chapter 6.
16- In chapter 7, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations is discussed to help us to see the importance of organization design. According to the textbook, what is a key challenge of organizational design that we learn from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations snippet in the book?
17- Identify one advantage AND one disadvantage of bureaucratic organizations according to Max Weber found in chapter 7.
18- Explain Frederick Taylor’s contribution in understanding organizations in his 1911 book entitled Principles of Scientific Management found in chapter 7.
19- Explain the human relations approach to organizational structure and behavior as discussed in the textbook.
20- What is the contingency theory of organizations? Briefly explain.
21- What does it mean to look at organizations especially public organizations as polities?
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