CSS Public Administration Past Paper 2010
PART-2(Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q.2. Define public administration. Explain and justify your definition in comparison with various other competing definitions of Public Administration. Do you think Public Administration is different from Business Administration both in theory and practice?
Q.3. Comparatively evaluate Taylor’s Scientific Management and Weber’s Ideal Bureaucracy and discuss their relevance to contemporary public organizations in Pakistan.
Q.4. Compare and contrast the Bureaucratic Model with New Public Management (NPM). Do you think NPM has replaced the bureaucratic approach to public administration? Support your views with examples from Pakistan.
Q.5. Compare and contrast rational, incremental, and NPM approaches to decision making in public administration. Explain your views with examples from Pakistan.
Q.6. What is good governance? Explain the role of public administration in good governance particularly with reference to Pakistan.
Q.7. Human Resource Management (HRM) is a contemporary approach to managing people in business organizations. What are the salient features of HRM model? Do you think this model is being applied to reform the public personnel system in Pakistan?
Q.8. Discuss the functions and organizational structure of the Federal Government of Pakistan, including administrative relations between federal ministries and federal bodies such as commissions, authorities, boards, and state-owned enterprises.