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Questions

1. Public and private organizations are different because...

a) private organizations provide a safety net for big, expensive, and unpopular problems.

b) public organizations are interested in making a profit.

c) public organizations must fulfill non-mission based requirements such as information sharing.

d) private organizations are interested, first and foremost, in equality.

2. Public executives are responsible for balancing the pillars of public administration. They are (choose all that apply)

a) equity

b) effectiveness

c) profit margins

d) boards of directors

e) efficiency

d) none of the options provided are correct

e) economy

3. Nobel prizewinner Herbert Simon asserts that administrative decisions should be based solely on facts, not values.

a) True

b) False

4. Ethical public administrators apply core values to decisions including

a) power, loyalty, strategic partnerships, self-promotion.

b) care, honesty, accountability, promise-keeping, responsible citizenship.

c) profit, efficiency, decreased liability, accountability to shareholders.

d) None of the options provided.