Political Science · Public Administration
Given below are two statements, choose the correct option.
- Statement I: Elton Mayo ushered the behavioural turn in public administration
- Statement II: Fred Riggs's ecological approach was based on structural functionalism
ABoth Statement I and Statement II are correct ✓ Correct
BBoth Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
CStatement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
DStatement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Correct answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct — Both statements are correct, so the answer is that Statement I and Statement II are both true.
Explanation
★Both statements are correct, so the answer is that Statement I and Statement II are both true.
★Elton Mayo's Hawthorne studies opened the behavioural and human-relations turn in administration.
★They shifted attention from formal structure to human behaviour, groups and morale.
★Fred Riggs built his ecological approach on structural functionalism.
★He studied administration in relation to its social, economic and cultural environment.
★His prismatic-sala model compares administration across developed and developing societies.
★So both the behavioural turn by Mayo and the structural-functional base of Riggs are correctly stated.
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