GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
WHAT ERA FOCUS ON THE VALUES OF SOCIAL EQUITY, RELEVANCE AND CLIENT-ORIENTEDNESS?
A
NEW PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
B
OLD PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The second was the emergence of New Public Administration (NPA) – an outcome of first Minnowbrook Conference held in 1968 sponsored by Dwight Waldo–which put more emphasis on values replacing the traditional goals of efficiency and effectiveness. Besides, it laid stress on relevance, social equity and change.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social Equity in Public Administration Social equity is the active commitment to fairness, justice, and equality in the formulation of public policy, distribution of public services, implementation of public policy, and management of all institutions serving the public directly or by contract.

Detailed explanation-3: -Second-generation theorists drew upon private management practices for administrative sciences. A single, generic management theory bleeding the borders between the private and the public sector was thought to be possible.

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