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Which of the following best describes administration?

AManagement of industrial enterprises

BImplementation of policy and coordination of activities

CPreparation of judicial verdicts

DCreation of political ideologies

Answer:

B. Implementation of policy and coordination of activities

Read Explanation:

  • Administration refers to the process of implementing policy and coordinating organizational efforts to achieve goals.


Related Questions:

Consider the following statements about Luther Gulick’s contribution to public administration:

  1. He introduced the POSDCORB framework to define the scope of public administration.

  2. His framework includes Budgeting, which encompasses fiscal planning, accounting, and control.

  3. He argued that POSDCORB techniques are sufficient to address all administrative challenges.

Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
i. Simon – Public Administration is the activities of the executive branches of national, state, and local governments.
ii. Willoughby – Public Administration denotes only the operations of the administrative branch.
iii. D. Waldo – Public Administration is the science of management applied to legislative affairs.
iv. Pfiffner – Public Administration includes running an X-ray machine or coining money in the mint.

Choose the correct statement(s) regarding the Contingency Approach to Administration.

(i) It argues that there is no universal set of management principles applicable to all organizations.
(ii) The approach emphasizes the alignment of organizational structure with the external environment, such as market competition or technological changes.
(iii) It promotes a rigid, standardized management approach to ensure consistency across diverse contexts.

Consider the following statements about the concept of administration:
i. Administration is a universal process that occurs in both public and private institutional settings.
ii. The term ‘administration’ literally means the management of affairs, whether public or private.
iii. Administration, according to L.D. White, is the art of directing, coordinating, and controlling people to achieve a purpose.

Which of the following statements about Chester Barnard’s contributions to administrative theories are correct?

  1. He viewed organizations as cooperative systems requiring communication and a common purpose.

  2. He proposed the Acceptance Theory of Authority, where authority depends on subordinates’ acceptance.

  3. He emphasized rigid control and close supervision as the primary means to achieve organizational goals.