CH 15

Question 1

A _________ is a large, complex administrative structure that handles the everyday business of an organization.

Answer 1

-Bureaucracy

Question 2

Features of such a structure include all of the following except:

Answer 2

B. High demands on leadership to establish working policies

Question 3

What is the EOP?

Answer 3

-A group of executives that are special informal advisors to the president.

Question 4

What are the Office of Management and Budget’s responsibilities?

Answer 4

-They summarize the agency’s spending accounts, prepare the records for meeting and create the budget

Question 5

Each of the executives departments, also known as ______ departments, is headed by a “_________” (except for the “attorney general”) appointed by the President.

Answer 5

• Cabinet

- secretary

Question 6

All of the following characteristics are true of these heads over the executive departments except that:

Answer 6

-D

Question 7

Give one reason why independant agencies (outside of the executive departments) are created by Congress.

Answer 7

-Accident, to ensure protection of the government

Question 8

Independant regulatory commissions.

Answer 8

D. All of the above

Question 9

Government hiring practices for the Civil Service have evolved over the years, changing from Andres Jackson’s “______ system” based on political patronage to the Pendleton Act of 1883 emphasizing ________-based hiring.

Answer 9

• Spoil

- merit