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1. The word Public simply means
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2. Which of these is a feature of public organization
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3. If x is a normal variable with the mean u=5 and variance (sigma square)=16, what is the probability that x is less than or equal to 6?
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Public administration is seen as a veritable tool for social, political and development of a state
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Two petrol station are located in a street at Victoria island, each of the petrol station has 5 pumps, an experiment was carry out to determine the number of pumps in use at a particular time of the day at each of the petrol station, assume an experimental outcome is (x,y), where x specified the number of pumps in use at the 1st station and y the number of pumps in use at the second station. How many of such outcome will you have in this experiment?
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Drucker argued that the central theme of Taylor's work was not inefficiency but the need to substitute industrial warfare by
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A certain shop repairs both audio and video components. Let A denote the event that the next component brought in for repair is an audio component, and let B be the event that the next component is a compact disc player (so the event B is contained in A). Suppose that P(A)= 0.6 and P(B) =0.05. What is P(P|A)?
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Impact of scientific management has led to
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As the amount of lighting was increased for the experimental group, and improved
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Let X have a uniform distribution on the interval [A,B]. compute V(X)
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Akpan (1982) contends that public administration is the organ that carries out the programmes and manifestos of ________ in power
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12. Public administrators are under constant _________
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The classical theory treats an organization as a closed system, completely unconnected with an not influenced by its
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is called the father of the function and management theory
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Social rewards and sanctions are the strongest on the job
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Organization are _____ created to serve one or more specific goals
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17. Public Administration operates in a _________ environment
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A coin is rolled thrice, what is the probability for an event that at least two head or at least two tails occurs?
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Lagos and colony was administered from
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20. In the area of personnel, the upper and middle levels were pre-dominately occupied by the _________
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21. Public Administration operates in an intense and pervasive political _________
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Which of this is not a major finding of the Hawthorne studies
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Workers are graded in different level of __________
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24. The unit has thrown light on the scientific theory of ________
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Mayo and his colleagues undertook the relay assembly test room experiment at the
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26. The characteristics of public administration include the following except
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Taylor observed how many element
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There is a wide spread expectation of benefits from public administration at little or no cost to the
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29. in a given business venture a lady can make a profit of N300 with probability 0.6 or take a loss of N100 with probability 0.4. what is her expectation?N
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The writers upheld the distinction between the line and staff activities
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31. According to Simon (1970), administration refers to the activities of groups cooperating to accomplish
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32. How many methods of inquiry in public administration are there?
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In managing public affairs, public administration focuses principally on the planning, organising, directing, coordinating and controlling of ______
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administration is that type of administration that is carried out in any affair that concern the government
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35. Science that studies the distribution and abundance of living __________
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The great illuminatin experiment ran from to
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37. The development of the Human relation theory continued with the efforts of who?
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Two fair dies are rolled once. Find the probability that the sum of the numbers on the two faces is greater than Ten
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Human relations theory is another method of studying
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implies that employees obey orders of management
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41. Taylor was against
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The five managerial activities are treated by Fayol as
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43. Lagos colony plus Southern protectorate were merged with Northern protectorate to form a amalgamated tertiary called Nigeria was in what year?
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The human relations approach is an attempt to improve some of the defects inherent in the classical
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According to Taylor, scientific management is not a/an
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46. Which of these is not among Fayol's fourteen principles
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The challenges to the study of public administration are except
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How many factors that influence public administration are there in Nigeria?
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49. Another significant result was a decline in absenteeism of ______ percent
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examines humans and their interactions with their natural environments
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