Fundamentals of Public Administration

Exam Year: 2061

Subject: Fundamentals of Public Administration
Time: 4 Hours
Full Marks: 100
Attempt any FIVE questions.
1.

Discuss the meaning and nature of public administration. How does it differ from private administration?

2.

Explain the interdisciplinary approach of public administration and show how it is related to other relevant disciplines.

3.

Elucidate the contributions of Frederick Winslow Taylor to Scientific Management Movement and critically examine its main
features.

4.

How would you analyse the concept of Max Weberian Bureaucracy from the perspective of present administrative system.

5.

What do you mean by Human Relation Approach? What are the major contributions of the Harvard Group?

6.

Decision making is an essential management function. Elaborate.

7.

"Public Administration is concerned not only with policy implementation but also with policy formulation". Explain.

8.

Define the concept of good governance. Suggest the appropriate indicators of good governance.

9.

Write Short notes on any TWO of the following:

New trends of public administration
Integral view of public administration
Hierarchy

Exam Year: 2062

Subject: Fundamentals of Public Administration
Time: 4 Hours
Full Marks: 100
Attempt any FIVE questions.
1.

Define Public Administration. Describe the nature and scope of public administration.

2.

Today interdisciplinary approach to the study of public administration is considered as one of the most essential
factors. Discuss.

3.

Scientific Management Movement is considered a big step toward modern management. Explain and also state its
contribution to the growth of management science.

4.

"Bureaucracy is the system of government in operation by the paid officials." Elucidate.

5.

The Hawthorne studies began a new direction, recognition that human beings are a complex- and influential input
into organizational performance. Elaborate.

6.

What is meant by participative management? What are the pre-requisites for the success of participative
management?

7.

Elaborate the meaning of public policy. How and why is public administration related to public policy making?

8.

What is good governance? How would you see the relevance of good governance in the present context?

9.

Write short notes on any TWO of the following:

1.

Minnow brook Conference

2.

Managerial view of public administration

3.

Contingency approach

Exam Year: 2066

Subject: Fundamentals of Public Administration (PA 510)
Time: 4 Hours
Full Marks: 100
Attempt any TWO questions from section "A" and FOUR questions from section "B".
Section "A"
(Long Answer Questions)
Attempt any TWO questions. 225=50
1.

State briefly the major contribution of the theories in the development of the discipline of public administration.

2.

Identify the interrelationship between administrative law and public administration. Is Nepalese administrative
system able to redress the grievances through administrative law?

3.

What is post modernism in public administration? How is it distinctive from the earlier concept of public

administration?
Section "B"
(Long Answer Questions)
Attempt any FOUR questions. 412.5=50
4.

What are the distinctive characteristics of public administration that differentiates from other disciplines?

5.

Explain the reasons behind the issue of politics administration dichotomy.

6.

Why Tailorism and administrative theory of management are called mechanistic theories?

7.

Public personnel management is the backbone of public management. Why?

8.

Why result-oriented management is gaining ground? What are its characteristics?

9.

What are the major governance agenda in the present governance scenario in Nepal?

Human Resource Management (PA 550) (New Course)

Exam Year: 2066

Subject: Human Resource Management (PA 550)
Time: 2 Hours
Full Marks: 50
Attempt any ONE question from section "A" and TWO questions from section "B".

Section "A"
(Long Answer Questions)
Attempt any ONE question. 125=25
1.
2.

Trace out the history of Human Resource Management in the public sector.
Discuss the major challenges in the management of human resource in the public sector.

Section "B"
(Long Answer Questions)
Attempt any TWO questions. 212.5=25
1.
2.

What do you understand by human resource planning? Discuss its importance.

Discuss the types of recruitment.

3.
4.

Why newly appointed public employees need socialization? Give your reasons.
Discuss the major elements of Collective bargaining.

Research Methods in Public Administration I (PA 540)

(New Course)

Exam Year: 2066

Subject: Research Methods in Public Administration I (PA 540)
Time: 2 Hours
Full Marks: 50
Attempt any FOUR questions. 12.5 X4= 50
Q.No 1. In a certain department of Home Ministry, there are 50 employees working at different level with different salaries. Their monthly salary was
observed and tabulated below.

Salary (in 000Rs)

7-10

10-13

13-16

11

12

No. of Employees
a.
b.

16-19

19-22

22-25

Summarize the data by calculating the mean and standard deviation of the salary of this department?

Assuming that this is a representative random sample of all the employees of Nepal Government, estimate the average
salary of all the employees of Nepal Government at 95% and 99% confidence level.

Q. No 2. The following figures give the foreign and internal load (Rs. in 10 million) taken bye Nepal Government for the year 1998 to 2009.

Year

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Foreign Loan

1185 1181 1204

700

455

455

763

926

821

Internal Loan

471

800

888

888

561

894

1183 1789 2049 1842

550

700

1005

898

997

Find the correlation coefficient between foreign loan and internal loan using Spearman's rank method and interpret the result.
Q. No 3. (a) Department A of a certain Ministry has 4 male and 2 female officers. Another department B has 5 male and 3 female officers. If one officer
is selected from each department find the probability that

a.
b.
c.

both are male

both are female
One is male and one female.

Q. No 3. (b) The monthly electricity consumption of 2500 middle class families of a certain VDC is normally distributed with mean 34 units with a
standard deviation of 8 units. Find the number of families having monthly electricity consumption

a.
b.

between 20 to 50 units
less than 16 units.

Q. No 4. (a) Secretary of Ministry of Education claims that 90% of visitors in his office come with their private work. A sample of 300 visitors in a certain
week 280 had their private work. Can the claim of the secretary be justified at 5% level of significance?
Q. No 4 (b) The average weight of 50 persons who are vegetarian was 70 kg with a standard deviation of 12 kg, While another set of 60 persons who
are non-vegetarian ahs the average weight of 73 kg with a standard deviation of 11 kg. Test the hypothesis that vegetarian food makes a person less
weighty.

Q. No 5. Nepal Medical Council would like to determine if alcohol has any effect on the pulse rate of adult males. A random sample of 11 adult males
was selected and their pulse rates were measured before and after taking alcohol. The pulse rate per minute are shown in the following table.

Adult Male
A

Before taking
alcohol

68 70 71 70

7
1

74 73 69

6
7

70 72

After taking alcohol

69 72 74 73

7
1

72 74 70

6
9

73 70

Pulse rate per minute

Test the hypothesis that alcohol has no effect on the pulse rate of adult males. (Table value of t at 0.05 level of significance for 10 and 20 df are 2.228
and 2.086 respectively)
Q. No 6. A sample report on the technical manpower production by Tribhuvan University in 2008/09 shows the following result:

Level
Institute
Certificate Bachelor Master

Engineerin
g

600

1103

60

Medicine

598

175

170

Forestry

147

59

10

Can we conclude that institute and the level of education are independent at 0.05 level of significance?

(Table values of Chi-square at .05 level of significance for 4 and 8 df are 9.488 and 15.507 respectively)