Political Science · Public Administration
UGC NET November 2017 Political Science
Which of the following approaches is the precursor of the Ecological approach?
AClassical approach
BHuman relations approach
CSystems approach ✓ Correct
DBehavioral approach
Correct answer: (C) Systems approach — The systems approach is the precursor of the ecological approach, so the answer is the systems approach.
Explanation
★The systems approach is the precursor of the ecological approach, so the answer is the systems approach.
★The systems approach, shaped by Talcott Parsons and structural-functionalism, views a body as interconnected parts within a larger whole.
★The ecological approach extends this by placing the administrative system inside its social, cultural and economic environment.
★Fred Riggs built the ecological approach on systems and structural-functional thinking to compare administration across societies.
★His prismatic-society model treats administration as a sub-system that exchanges influences with its surroundings.
★The classical and human relations approaches focus on internal structure and worker behaviour, not on the system-environment relation.
★The behavioral approach studies individual conduct and so does not provide the systemic base from which ecology grew.
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