Public Sector Ethics Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Public Sector Ethics explores the principles, challenges, and frameworks guiding ethical decision-making and conduct within government and public organizations. The course examines key topics such as integrity, accountability, transparency, conflicts of interest, and the unique ethical dilemmas faced by civil servants and policy-makers. Students analyze real-world case studies to understand the impact of ethical and unethical behaviors on public trust, governance, and policy outcomes, while learning to apply ethical theories and codes of conduct to complex scenarios in the public sector.
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Public Administration in Canada 2nd Edition by Paul Barker
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Chapter 1: What Is Public Administration
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Q1) Which type of institution mandates Canadian content in various cultural products?
A)Crown corporations
B)government departments
C)independent tribunals
D)regulatory agencies
Answer: D
Q2) In comparison to the private sector, public servants are expected to adhere to more objectives and to act in ways that result in a lesser degree of efficiency.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The size and role of the public service in Canada was downsized in the 1990s.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Values and Ethics in Public Administration
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Q1) Which of the following values states that "federal public servants are entrusted to use and care for public resources responsibly"?
A)stewardship
B)excellence
C)integrity
D)neutrality
Answer: A
Q2) What is the agency responsible for overseeing appointments to the federal public service called?
A)Public Service Employment
B)Service Canada
C)Public Service Commission
D)Ethics Commissioner
Answer: C
Q3) According to Paul Thomas, accountability should consist of an obligation to answer for the discharge of those responsible.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Public Administration and Organization Theory:
The Structural Foundation
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Q1) Who criticized the idea of organizing by purpose, process, people, and place?
A)Gulick
B)Urwick
C)Simon
D)Selznick
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following best describes the bureaucratic principle that states that there should be only one leader and one plan for organizing activities to accomplish an objective?
A)esprit de corps
B)scalar chain
C)span of control
D)unity of direction
Answer: D
Q3) Which of these terms translates literally to "rule by desks or offices"?
A)organization
B)administration
C)bureaucracy
D)institutions
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Public Administration and Organization Theory:
The Humanistic Response and Beyond
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Q1) Which of the following is a hygiene factor?
A)achievement
B)growth
C)salary
D)advancement
Q2) Consider Herzberg's view and the traditional view of satisfaction and dissatisfaction.Which of the following statements is correct?
A)Herzberg's view divides the satisfaction-dissatisfaction dichotomy into motivators and hygiene factors.
B)The traditional view divides the satisfaction-dissatisfaction dichotomy into motivators and hygiene factors.
C)Motivators are divided into no dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction.
D)The traditional view is divided into no dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction.
Q3) Total Quality Management was popularized in the 1980s and 1990s and its focus was on the service sectors.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Public Administration and Organization Theory:
The New Public Management, Governance, and Beyond
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Q1) New Public Management states that public agencies should be receptive to competitive arrangements within government, and between the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which type of government empowers citizens through participatory democracy to take responsibility for solving their own problems?
A)catalytic government
B)decentralized government
C)community-owned government
D)market-oriented government
Q3) What type of accountability best applies to New Public Management?
A)multi-faceted accountability
B)accountability based on process
C)accountability based on results
D)accountability based on policy
Q4) According to New Public Management, good government means more government.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Government Departments and Central Agencies
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Q1) Who heads the executive branch in provinces?
A)the governor-general
B)the lieutenant-governor
C)the governor-in-council
D)the premier
Q2) Which of the following types of departments are considered to be the least influential?
A)horizontal administrative co-ordinative departments
B)horizontal policy co-ordinate departments
C)central agencies
D)vertical constituency departments
Q3) The head of the public service is the Clerk of the Privy Council.
A)True
B)False
Q4) New departments can only be created by an Act of Parliament.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The House of Commons is part of the executive branch of government in Canada.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Crown Agencies
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Q1) Parliament controls Crown agencies by approving appropriations of funding.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What type of entity is the Canadian Human Rights Commission?
A)regulatory agency
B)administrative tribunal
C)Crown corporation
D)mixed enterprise
Q3) Who provides the day-to-day management and oversight of a Crown agency?
A)president and chief executive officer
B)senior vice presidents
C)chief operating officer
D)chair of the board of directors
Q4) Which of the following parent Crown corporations is under the Department of Finance's portfolio?
A)Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
B)Bank of Canada
C)Public Sector Pension Investment Board
D)Canadian Commercial Corporation
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Chapter 8: Alternative Service Delivery ASD
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Q1) Which of the following services are highly commercialized?
A)private enterprises
B)service agencies
C)departmental corporations
D)special operating agencies
Q2) One goal of Government 2.0 is to make government more open and transparent through technology.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is a service agency?
A)Industrial Technologies Office
B)Canadian Coast Guard
C)Defense Research and Development Canada
D)Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Q4) Statutory agencies have low commercialization but a high degree of government control.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Executive and the Bureaucracy
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Q1) Typically, which of the following is considered to be the second-most senior committee?
A)Defence Procurement
B)Treasury Board
C)Operations
D)Litigation Management
Q2) Alongside the Prime Minister, who co-chairs the Priorities and Planning committee?
A)the deputy minister
B)the finance minister
C)the justice minister
D)the chief of staff
Q3) The prime minister is considered to be the first among equals in relation to other cabinet ministers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Central agencies are not allowed to intervene or influence a minister's proposal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Interdepartmental and Intradepartmental Relations
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Q1) Which of the following Acts enables the deputy minister to manage allocated resources?
A)<i>Financial Administration Act</i>
B)<i>Public Sector Labour Relations Act</i>
C)<i>Public Service Employment Act</i>
D)<i>Civil Service Act</i>
Q2) The number of ministerial assistants decreased between 2005 and 2015.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the term for interactions within one department?
A)intradepartmental interaction
B)interdepartmental interaction
C)horizontal management
D)vertical management
Q4) Which of the following statements is accurate?
A)The deputy minister is the head of all departments.
B)The minister must be an elected member of the party in power.
C)The minister is not responsible for all actions of the department.
D)There are no statutes to specify the duties of the minister.
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Chapter 11: The Legislature and the Bureaucracy
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Q1) What is the role of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner?
A)They receive and look into complaints made by public servants relating to various forms of mismanagement or wrongdoing in the public service.
B)They look into complaints from individuals who believe that their privacy rights have not been properly respected.
C)They investigate complaints about denial of public access to government information.
D)They ensure that elected and appointed members of the government abide by the Code of Ethics.
Q2) Which department was responsible for the sponsorship program?
A)Department of Justice
B)Department of Public Works and Government Services
C)Heritage Canada
D)Department of Finance
Q3) Which of the following indirectly reports to Parliament?
A)The Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer
B)The Office of the Privacy Commissioner
C)Elections Canada
D)The Office of the Auditor-General
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Chapter 12: The Judiciary and the Bureaucracy
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Q1) The judiciary is independent from the executive and the legislative branches of government.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who has the power to appoint and remove all judges found in the upper tier of provincial courts?
A)the provincial government
B)the governor-general
C)the federal government
D)an independent provincial tribunal
Q3) Damages were awarded against the attorney-general and premier of Quebec in the case of <i>Roncarelli v.Duplessis.</i>
A)True
B)False
Q4) What type of law is derived from custom and judicial precedent?
A)civil law
B)common law
C)constitutional law
D)administrative law
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Chapter 13: Intergovernmental Administrative Relations
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Q1) The period since the rejection of the Charlottetown Agreement has been referred to as "constitutional normalcy."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which type of federalism did the Quiet Revolution help precipitate?
A)co-operative federalism
B)unilateral federalism
C)open federalism
D)competitive federalism
Q3) Which of the following most accurately describes classical federalism?
A)Between the 1800s and 1930s, provincial powers gradually decreased.
B)Between the 1800s and the 1930s, judicial decisions always favoured the federal government in constitutional disputes.
C)Both the federal and provincial governments enjoyed exclusive jurisdiction in certain policy fields.
D)Jurisdictional conflicts during this time were settled outside of the courts.
Q4) Emergency federalism was only applied during the Depression era.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Non-Governmental Actors and the Bureaucracy
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Q1) What category of interest group does the Canadian Medical Association fall under?
A)issue-oriented
B)institutionalized group
C)judicial group
D)community group
Q2) Contesting is an interest group tactic.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following interest group activity involves the solving of public interest problems with knowledge that is only available to interest groups?
A)participating
B)advocating
C)retreating
D)regulation
Q4) Issue-oriented groups are more organized than institutionalized groups.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: The Management of Human Resources
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Q1) Which type of employee cannot work in the public service for longer than 90 days?
A)indeterminate employee
B)term employee
C)determinate employee
D)casual employee
Q2) Since the mid-1980s, there has been a fairly consistent decrease in the number of Canadians working in the public sector.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the term for individuals who are appointed to the public service for an unspecified period of time?
A)indeterminate employees
B)casual employees
C)determinate employees
D)term employees
Q4) Casual employees can only be part-time employees.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Representative Bureaucracy and Employment Equity
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Q1) Employment equity means something completely different than affirmative action.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which province does <b>NOT</b> have any pay equity law or framework?
A)Ontario
B)Alberta
C)Prince Edward Island
D)Manitoba
Q3) Visible minorities are the only designated group that has been historically over-represented in the federal public service.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The values arising from socialization are not reflected whatsoever in the behaviour of public servants or their recommendations and decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Pay Equity stands for " equal pay for equal work."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: The Budgetary Process
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Q1) The federal and provincial finance ministers prepare their revenue budgets at least once a year.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Fiscal discipline only applies to maintaining short-term control of the totals in the budget.
A)True B)False
Q3) Line-item budgeting only measures inputs used.
A)True B)False
Q4) The Treasury Board releases the budget consultation papers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Performance budgeting focuses on the output orientation.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Omnibus bills covering the budget are lengthier than normal budget bills.
A)True B)False
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