Administration Theory Fall 2021 First Exam Answer each of the following questions: Describe open systems theory and how it applies to local government. Does this theory help to explain how public organizations operate? How can this theory be sued? How are public organization different than private organizations and in what ways are they similar? What are the fundamental differences as it applies to managing employees. Describe the administration/politics dichotomy, which of the authors that we have read support it and which do not. What is the reason for their support or lack thereof? What is your position? Answer two of the following: Describe the environment of public organizations. What environmental conditions have the greatest effect on the operation of public organizations. How can this impact be analyzed? What institutions have the greatest affect on the performance of public organizations and why? Compare the reading by Mary Follet and Douglas McGregor. In what ways do they agree or disagree? How would a manger incorporate their ideas? Compare the readings by Luther Gullick and Herbert Simon. Is Simon’s criticism well founded? Does Gullick’s theory of organizations stand as theory? Does it have anything to offer managers today?
