THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Notes on the typing of internally produced examination papers
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(a) Heading
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Time Allowed: 3 hours plus 15 minutes reading time during which notes may be
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Academic Services, WBS – LB 02/10/12
Examination paper template
AD1010
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Summer examination 2010/11
Introduction to Administrative Processes
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Time allowed:
3 hours, plus 15 minutes reading time during which notes may be made (on
the question paper only) BUT NO ANSWER MAY BE BEGUN.
Silent pocket calculators that are not capable of text storage or retrieval are permitted but their
instruction booklets, PDAs, mobile phones or any other hand-held devices that facilitate wireless
communication are NOT PERMITTED.
Statistical tables and graph paper will be provided.
This is an open book examination: permitted texts – The Telephone Directory (2010/2011)
A total of 3 questions must be answered: 2 from Section A plus 1 from Section B.
Section A is worth 60% of the total marks for this paper and Section B is worth 40%.
USE A SEPARATE ANSWER BOOK FOR EACH QUESTION.
Read carefully the instructions on the answer book and make sure that the particulars required are
entered on each answer book.
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AD1010
Section A
Students should answer TWO questions from questions 1, 2 and 3
1.
How far does de Tocqueville succeed in proving that administrative centralisation was largely
responsible for the collapse of the ancien regime?
(30%)
2.
In what way do procedures for evaluating student performance at university act as controlsystems over student behaviour throughout the year? Compare the conventional examination
system with its alternatives.
(30%)
3.
"Of course, one might argue that if the computer weren't there to hide behind, the human
beings in charge would be flushed out and be forced to treat us all more decently. Don't you
believe it! The history of administrative ineptitude, of bureaucratic savagery, of all the
injustices and tyranny of petty officialdom, long antedates the computer. And that's what you'd
be dealing with if you abolished the computer." (Isaac Asimov, The Tragedy of the Moon,
1977)
Discuss this critically, quoting appropriate examples.
(30%)
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Section B
Students should answer ONE question only from questions 4, 5 and 6
4.
How appropriate is line and staff organisation for a large multi-factory manufacturing group?
Would matrix organisation offer any significant advantages over line and staff organisation?
(40%)
5.
"[The word] Matrix ... has a number of precise specialised meanings in several sciences, nearsciences, and pseudo-sciences. It sounds eminently impressive. It can be supposed to have a
conveniently hazy general meaning, derived from its etymological connexion with mater, the
Latin mother, as something within which something else originates, or takes form, or
develops. And it is a safe bet that nine out of ten of those who drop the word plonkingly into
their unspecialized discourse would be embarrassed if asked for an exact definition." (Weasle
words).
Attempt a more precise quantification of this assumption.
(40%)
6.
Either:
a. Critically evaluate the value to subordinates, superiors and to the institution itself of
the technique of management by objectives.
Or:
b. Explain what is meant by the 'contingency theory of management'. Show its
foundations in general systems theory.
(40%)
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